Probably should be running DOS 3.2 for the real vintage experience.
IBM 5160
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Re: IBM 5160
#22Hmm, if I were to get a computer from my birth year, it looks like this would be the only option (or perhaps some big iron of slightly older vintage). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_9100A
Ditto
Re: IBM 5160
#23You're doing right by your kid, mate.
In order to mitigate the toxic effects of "screen time", I've always felt that a young child's first computer should be an old-style one, like a Commodore 64 or even a DOS PC. Current-era machines designed in the same vein, like the Commander X16, would do just as well. Modern devices come with lots of mind-numbing distractions (YouTube videos, addictive pay-to-win "games") and no means to program them. Back in the day, a computer was for programming as a pencil is for writing with: it was the unique thing the machine was built for. The sooner a child comes to grips with programming and instructing a computer (beyond clicking things or selecting from menus), the more savvy they will be about its use; after all, pay-to-win "games" and YouTube and social media are all just programs also. The genie will do good or evil only according to whomever is rubbing the lamp, and understanding early that you can rub the lamp and command the genie, and the responsibility that entails is even more important now than it was back in the 80s.
Re: IBM 5160
#24No $PATH, but there is %PATH%. Also, installing dos stuff in C:\DOS is what people generally did. I'm pretty sure it could be anywhere in the path.
People not smart enough to edit Autoexec.bat apparently.
Re: IBM 5160
#25No $PATH, but there is %PATH%. Also, installing dos stuff in C:\DOS is what people generally did. I'm pretty sure it could be anywhere in the path.
I remember there being a PATH setting in either autoexec.bat or config.sys
Paths were set on Autoexec.bat, config.sys was for driver related configurations.
Re: IBM 5160
#26Hmm, if I were to get a computer from my birth year, it looks like this would be the only option (or perhaps some big iron of slightly older vintage). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard_9100A
All I could find was the CDC 3600 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series#Upper_3000_s...
... haul out the Simh is my only option for now.
Re: IBM 5160
#27I seem to remember dir /p doing some pagination?