Any one remember HIJAAK Software?

[DVD_Ripper]

From the mid eighties... one of the best, DOS based, image conversion tools at the time.

[Capmaster]

Yep. That goes back a few years huh? I used it on my trusty IBM PC with the dual 5-1/4" floppies and no HD

[offline]

I was using Dr. Halo at the time

[DVD_Ripper]

Wow... .good one, that brings back memories... any other old farts, 40+ yrs old, that remember the good ole apps on MS DOS 3.1, 4.1, 5.0, etc.....

I ran a BBS on 'Maximus' and one on 'Nochange' software (when www was a dream... and 1200 baud modems were $300)

I thought the GEM Operating System (ventura publishing and a few others) was going the be the next OS of our time.

One other random thought .... remember the IBM / Charlie Chaplin commericials for Write, File, Report apps (what was the PFS software series)...

whew... brain hurts...

[offline]

Gem was great. Fast too. Anyone use VisiCalc? I hated wordstar
and mosly used Applewrite (or Professional Write for the PC)
in between games of Alley Cat (Microsoft Olympics for the apple).

Never got into Ventura Publisher, MS word was out and with a good
dotmatrix printer you had 20 or so fonts to choose from and you
could import PCX files from BBS's (xmodem/zmodem)or hand scan them yourself in
black and white. Myt 1st modem was a Black Box brand acoustic
coupler (still have it) at 300 baud.

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I recall the IBM ads for the PC Junior and PFS. I used to go to a
local university after school and book time on a PC (I had an Apple II
then) just to play with IBM basic.

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Xtree GOLD. I miss that even today.

[888888]

Wow... .good one, that brings back memories... any other old farts, 40+ yrs old, that remember the good ole apps on MS DOS 3.1, 4.1, 5.0, etc.....

I ran a BBS on 'Maximus' and one on 'Nochange' software (when www was a dream... and 1200 baud modems were $300)

I thought the GEM Operating System (ventura publishing and a few others) was going the be the next OS of our time.

One other random thought .... remember the IBM / Charlie Chaplin commericials for Write, File, Report apps (what was the PFS software series)...

whew... brain hurts...

One of the older things I remember is Norton Commander so I am definetly not a 40+ year old-fart.

[Capmaster]

A few more of the old, long gone apps I've used:

1Dir
DBase
Multimate
Wordmarc Composer
Mass11
Lotus 1-2-3

I am an old fart

[DVD_Ripper]

Xtree Gold was a good one but I must admit Norton Commander was one of my favorites.

Visicalc... wrote some of my first proggies on it. Also sold a ton of Certiflex accounting programs.

Not to mention... first job out of college was selling PC's....

IBM PC XT (8088 processor), with a Green Screen, (VGA was too expensive), dual floppies, keyboard and mouse (64K ram) was about $2800.00.... Now add a Sixpack plus for clock, and 640 total ram (about another $500.00) and you were smokin. now if you were feeling rich you could by a 5 Meg Winchester Hard Drive (double height drive -- took up two 5/14 bays) would run about a grand.... IDE was a Dream.. MFM was the communication for HD's back then.

[Capmaster]

Xtree Gold was a good one but I must admit Norton Commander was one of my favorites.

Visicalc... wrote some of my first proggies on it. Also sold a ton of Certiflex accounting programs.

Not to mention... first job out of college was selling PC's....

IBM PC XT (8088 processor), with a Green Screen, (VGA was too expensive), dual floppies, keyboard and mouse (64K ram) was about $2800.00.... Now add a Sixpack plus for clock, and 640 total ram (about another $500.00) and you were smokin. now if you were feeling rich you could by a 5 Meg Winchester Hard Drive (double height drive -- took up two 5/14 bays) would run about a grand.... IDE was a Dream.. MFM was the communication for HD's back then.

VGA? Do you mean CGA? 320 x 240 and a mind-boggling 16 colors, I think it was. That was livin' large.

[DVD_Ripper]

VGA? Do you mean CGA? 320 x 240 and a mind-boggling 16 colors, I think it was. That was livin' large.

Whopps your right... First was CGA, the EGA (Wow... enhances graphics array) and the killer VGA.

I think EGA ran at same res... 320x240 but at 256c and then came VGA (max of 640x480 at 256)... I remember NEC Multisync used to squeal trying to find the right sync.

[Capmaster]

VGA? Do you mean CGA? 320 x 240 and a mind-boggling 16 colors, I think it was. That was livin' large.

Whopps your right... First was CGA, the EGA (Wow... enhances graphics array) and the killer VGA.

I think EGA ran at same res... 320x240 but at 256c and then came VGA (max of 640x480 at 256)... I remember NEC Multisync used to squeal trying to find the right sync.

Do you remember the NEC Multisync 3D, 4G and 5G? Everyone wanted those They weighed about 80 pounds and dimmed the lights when they degaussed thenselves

[tekkieman]

... any other old farts, 40+ yrs old, that remember the good ole apps on MS DOS 3.1, 4.1, 5.0, etc.......

I must be one of the younger old farts, since I certainly remember all of these apps, and I'm not 40....yet. But winter is coming fast! I remember using VisiCalc on my Kaypro 4 with 3-360K 5 1/4 floppies and that 9" screen! Although, that was CP/M, not DOS. But I remember having to boot from DOS floppy before I could afford a hard drive.

[offline]

First was CGA, the EGA

Old farts lose their memory fast..hehe

First was morse tape, then ticker tape, then NEON T, then punchtape, then teletypes, then punch cards + 4pin printers, then writable cards +16 pin printers, then LED, then 40 column mono CRT, 80 column mono CRT, tinted mono CRT, white mono CRT, AGA, LCD, CGA, EGA, ECGA, VGA, PLASMA, EVGA, SVGA, XGA.

I think that has covered everything 8)

I remember the 1st time I saw a VGA screen. It had a clown
photo displayed. I was awe-struck!

[indolikaa]

I remember when Computer Shopper magazine was having a contest, and the grand prize was a 386DX system valued at $25,000...