I had a dream last night. In it, I was sitting in front of an old PC. I typed:
c:
cd\
copy con config.sys
files=255
buffers=32
<ctrl-z>
I can’t remember much more of the dream. But – I do remember typing this. My dream must have been about something in 1991.
dude…..you got some weird dreams!
Comment by Rob Freeborn — August 26, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
device=c:\\qemm\\qemm386.sys
Comment by Brian Hart — August 26, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
device=c:qemmqemm386.sys
Comment by Brian Hart — August 26, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
I could recall DOS days..not as old as 1991, becuase my interaction with PC started around 1996.__It was fun hacking passwords in the college by faking dos prompts
))
Comment by @ruchitgarg — August 26, 2009 @ 3:04 pm
Indeed I do. Did I tell you about the one where I get up on stage at a Billy Squier concert with a machine gun and blow away the entire first row?
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Until they were crushed by:
device=c:\\windows\\himem.sys
device=c:\\windows\\emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb
devicehigh=c:\\windows\\command\\drvspace.sys /move
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
Impressive that your dream didn't have any bugs. Or did you maybe fix the bugs when you were writing the blog post?
Comment by DaveJ — August 26, 2009 @ 4:05 pm
thats a nicer dream – few weeks ago, I woke up sweating that my interrupt handler for INT 21 was crashing….
Comment by sam — August 26, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
I once heard that you can never die in your own dreams. In your case, I guess you could never type delete *.*
Having beers on Thursday night around 8:30 with a few of the TechStars guys. Let me know if you're interested.
Comment by @_muddy — August 26, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
Did you try typing “Joshua”? And then see “Shall we play a game”
Comment by Scott — August 26, 2009 @ 9:19 am
ah himem.sys those were the days.. lol
Comment by Riaz Kanani — August 26, 2009 @ 4:43 pm
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.
Comment by Steve Bergstein — August 26, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
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.
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
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.
Comment by Bill Mosby — August 26, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
Still in Keystone on Thursday so I won’t be there.
Can you type format c:/s in your dream?
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
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.
Comment by cjwestbrook — August 26, 2009 @ 5:19 pm
You have always been a naughty boy.
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 5:20 pm
Awesome. I’ve always wanted to be in other people’s nightmares.
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Yet, despite these efforts, Wing Commander II still wouldn't run.
Comment by jrpowers — August 26, 2009 @ 5:59 pm
That's not what Billy meant when he said "Stroke Me".
Comment by Greg Battle — August 26, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
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."
Comment by David Brode — August 26, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
Er – um – I don’t think that’s what he meant. At least that’s not what I told my high school girlfriend.
Comment by Brad Feld — August 26, 2009 @ 10:05 pm
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
Comment by netroworx — August 27, 2009 @ 1:01 am
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.
Comment by Mike Puchol — August 31, 2009 @ 3:36 pm