fromArs Technica
2 months agoRemembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company's 50th birthday
That book taught me how to do all the stuff I couldn't figure out on this horrible old PC-searching through files and folders, writing snarky journal entries in the Edit app, copying and formatting disks (and, crucially, checking them for errors so I could weed out the bad ones), writing batch files, and creating additional system disks so we could have backups. I had the free time and the elastic, absorbent brain that only a kid can have, and I quickly soaked it all up.
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