I was browsing my collection of ancient software that I lug around when I came across something that I'd nearly completely forgotten about.... Windes Me. Windes Millennium Edition. This was back in the early 2000s, the naughts. I was starting to get the reputation as 'that guy' when it came to old hardware. Somewhat deserved because I would haunt the thrift stores in Chicago (of which there were many) in search of cheap computers I could play with and try to learn from. I would also scour places to find good copies of older software. This lead to me being gifted an ancient Tandy 286 computer. It had I think 4mb of ram? And a hard disk of something like 20mbs? I had no idea what to do with it but as it was gifted me by a family friend of my Mother's I couldn't just reject it. It was already there for me to take and of course my parents didn't want it cluttering up their place either... So there I was with this machine that really wasn't strong en...
Thoughts, interesting bits of flotsam on the web, reminisces about the technological past, and the oddest assumption that anyone would care what I think about any of it. I'm blogging because I've been told I should, hopefully at least some of it would be of interests to others.