Comments on: Ancient MS-DOS Tricks

By: Mike Puchol

Mike Puchol — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:36:53 +0000

My recurring nightmare from that era is installing Ami Pro. I’m there installing it from its 56 or so 3.5″ disks, and when you got to one of the last three disks, you were unceremoniously told a read error had taken place, and would you please restart the install from scratch. It actually happened to me for real a number of times, but to this day I still re-live it in my nightmares.

By: netroworx

netroworx — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:01:23 +0000

Nerdy but coudl be worse Brad.

Your post reminds of my worst nightmare.

Actually typing

rm -r *.out

on a unix machine while working on an assigment.

Unfortunately I didn't let go of the shift key in time and so got:

rm -r *>out

which wiped out all my source files

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:05:05 +0000

Er – um – I don’t think that’s what he meant. At least that’s not what I told my high school girlfriend.

By: David Brode

David Brode — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:02:28 +0000

OK, so my Billy Squier dream was that I'm in an upscale mall and I see a shop called "Billy Squier's Racquet Sports" and in the dream I think, "Stroke Me, yeah, I guess that makes sense."

By: Greg Battle

Greg Battle — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:16:07 +0000

That's not what Billy meant when he said "Stroke Me".

By: jrpowers

jrpowers — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:59:26 +0000

Yet, despite these efforts, Wing Commander II still wouldn't run.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:22:05 +0000

Awesome. I’ve always wanted to be in other people’s nightmares.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:20:04 +0000

You have always been a naughty boy.

By: cjwestbrook

cjwestbrook — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:19:45 +0000

I have a recurring nightmare where I'm at a Billy Squier concert and Brad Feld jumps onstage and kills everyone in the front row.

Just kidding.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:16:04 +0000

Still in Keystone on Thursday so I won’t be there.

Can you type format c:/s in your dream?

By: Bill Mosby

Bill Mosby — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:15:59 +0000

At work, we had about completed our "replace the Modcomp with two Macs" project in 1991. The only thing the Macs couldn't do better (for our use of them, that is) was survive a hit from a large pipe wrench dropped from about 12 feet overhead, as one of the Modcomp's washing-machine-sized disk drives once did.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:14:06 +0000

Oh there were plenty of bugs in my dream. In fact, now that I think about it, I remember having to reindex some files and run chkdsk a few times.

By: Steve Bergstein

Steve Bergstein — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:02:48 +0000

I did something similar in high school by mimicking the login process of Digital's RSTS/E (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E) operating system, which ran on the school's PDP-11. I ended up getting in a bunch of trouble.

By: Riaz Kanani

Riaz Kanani — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:43:12 +0000

ah himem.sys those were the days.. lol

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:19:39 +0000

Did you try typing “Joshua”? And then see “Shall we play a game”