Wonder how my computing life would have went had I started that way too...
Our first computer circa 1993/94 was an IBM 5160 (Could have been a 5150 but we had a hard disk.)
Was a great machine until I got bored, and I was trying out random commands I found via "C:\> DIR "
Formatted the main HD since it kind of walked me through it. THANKS MICROSOFT FOR USING "FORMAT c:" AS YOUR EXAMPLE!
Dad was able to reinstall DOS 3 but we never got it back to its former glory. From that point on I made it clear to myself I needed to know what I was doing and how these things worked. Did my first windows install by myself when I was 11. The knowledge quickly trickled down too. My little brother did one at 8. (We're five years apart.)
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(on a funny note I couldn't find ANY windows disks besides 2.03 at one point when my HDD crashed in 2001. So my packard bell legend 133mhz 32mb ram used 2.03 for at least a week to get my english homework typed up and printed on an old epson dot matrix. Man was I happy as heck when a buddy located the last WFW3.11 floppy I needed!)
Our first computer circa 1993/94 was an IBM 5160 (Could have been a 5150 but we had a hard disk.)
Was a great machine until I got bored, and I was trying out random commands I found via "C:\> DIR "
Formatted the main HD since it kind of walked me through it. THANKS MICROSOFT FOR USING "FORMAT c:" AS YOUR EXAMPLE!
Dad was able to reinstall DOS 3 but we never got it back to its former glory. From that point on I made it clear to myself I needed to know what I was doing and how these things worked. Did my first windows install by myself when I was 11. The knowledge quickly trickled down too. My little brother did one at 8. (We're five years apart.)
) (on a funny note I couldn't find ANY windows disks besides 2.03 at one point when my HDD crashed in 2001. So my packard bell legend 133mhz 32mb ram used 2.03 for at least a week to get my english homework typed up and printed on an old epson dot matrix. Man was I happy as heck when a buddy located the last WFW3.11 floppy I needed!)