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I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by simonh »

andreww591 wrote: post #132
simonh wrote: post #66

No Pick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system My first actual job was working for a local health authority here in the UK, and they had a Pick computer running some database application thing, I think to do with accounting. I had to run the backups. Sorry to be a whinger, I don't mean to belittle the monumental amount of work.

I've got Pick PC R83 V3.1 included. The screenshots on the front page are a very small sampling of what's there.

Cool. I couldn’t find a way to search the site.

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Post by dotancohen »

smnplk wrote: post #146
CalRobert wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a legendary name for the developer.

Omg, I am dead. Dick Pick. That is the best name, not just for a developer :D

Just a few weeks ago I met a guy with the same first name, but his last name was Head. No joke. I spared him the jokes.

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Post by VincePlatt »

jolmg wrote: post #165
liquidise wrote: post #28

This triggered a rabbit hole search that had me rediscover Packard Bell Navigator[1]. The nostalgia and joy this page brings me is hard to describe. I hope everyone remembers their formative tech journey so fondly. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator

> Packard Bell Navigator is an alternative shell for the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 operating systems Huh. I thought the term "shell" generally referred to command line interfaces to the OS and that Unity's way of describing itself as a graphical shell was some "new" (2011) generalization of the term, but I guess there is at least this precedent for using the word like that.

And right after starting that awesome little glimpse of the future, because weren't we all headed for the Max Headroom / Lawnmower Man inspired VR someday? It sure seemed inevitable - You would start up another wonder of the CD-ROM era like Encarta and just wonder at how they could have fit SO MUCH information on one computer. How could you have ever wanted for more?

Lol

Past me's head would have exploded just to have seen modern Wikipedia and GitHub back then.

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Post by chadgpt3 »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #39
liquidise wrote: post #28

This triggered a rabbit hole search that had me rediscover Packard Bell Navigator[1]. The nostalgia and joy this page brings me is hard to describe. I hope everyone remembers their formative tech journey so fondly. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell_Navigator

I never experienced it but somehow I still feel nostalgic for it. For all we've gained there's so much we've lost as well, I'm sad my kids won't grow up with anything like this.

The computing world, and not only it but also large parts of the real world, has abandoned creativity and turned into homogeneous corporatized slop.

Just look at what happened to McDonalds.

Re: I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

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Post by josteink »

This is an impressive effort and offering and I really want to try it out!

Clicking on "download" though, I get this:

> Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped): From Internet Archive

Not to be picky about free stuff offered by others, but I'd be more happy to download a non-zipped torrent, ready for use, where I can contribute BW back to the project itself as a means of gratitude.

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Post by rcakebread »

simonh wrote: post #66

No Pick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system My first actual job was working for a local health authority here in the UK, and they had a Pick computer running some database application thing, I think to do with accounting. I had to run the backups. Sorry to be a whinger, I don't mean to belittle the monumental amount of work.

I wrote software for Robinson Helicopter using Pick up till the early 2000s. They used it for the production, manufacting and inventory control. It was based on a system called PRO:MAN.
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