Windows 7 opinions so far

[2manyrocks]

I do not miss punch card machines.

MS has to develop and sell "new" products or they could fall by the way like a lot of others have fallen by the way.

Glad I sat out the adventure with Vista. Still waiting to see why I should change from XP.

Also have a Ubuntu system to play with. It may not be ready for "prime time" in terms of applications and user/friendliness in commercial applications for the average user. I do some minor audio editing with it, and it works just fine. Actually, I find it easier to use for some file conversions.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I kept an 8" floppy disk from a pdp. Still have my pdp programming books. didn't keep any punch cards.

 

[dmccarty]

I kept an 8" floppy disk from a pdp. Still have my pdp programming books. didn't keep any punch cards.

Our lab found a box of punch cards under the raised floor a few years ago. It was computer archeology.

I took an handful. Later that year someone tossed a bunch of 8 inch floppies. I took a handful.

I don't think my kids know what a floppy is or its use. With USB memory devices and the small sizes of a floppy they have gone the way of the Dodo.

I give out a single punch card and 8 inch floppy to Coop's so they can have a piece of history.

Later,
Dan

 

[brin]

In the early 80's the first computer I bought for my son was a Sinclair..plugged to a TV and for my company I bought an ALTOS I believe it was called and it was either $5,000 or more but it had a hard drive - 5 Megs...can you believe it and I remember the dot matrix printer for our office was $3,500. and I think with software, programming and training for the staff we had about $15,000.00 in the whole system and we made ourselves believe it was worth it. Those were the days.

 

[eepete]

I still have the PDP-8 I bought in high school in 1972 in the basement. Here it is in 1975, just before I build a video terminal for it. The jump from 110 baud to about 50K board was quite something. The rack unit next to it is where I converted the interface bus (DEC and -3) to TTL so I could build stuff for it.

Back on the thread, I jumped to the MAC when I tried Vista. Run parallels there for the things I can't get for a MAC (PCB software, FPGA software). From what I'm reading on this post, it sounds like it's worth it to dump the Vista virtual machine I have and buy a copy of Windows 7 so I can run that as a VM on my MAC for Windows only software going forward. Also sounds like Windows 7 is happy on a 64 bit system. Tnx for the reviews!

Pete

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I bought a new printer because my old one would not run on vista or win7, and HP wasn't making any drivers for it. The new one still wouldn't install on Win7, only vista. I was able to download a new sw version for win7 and it installed ok. (course the download FAP'ed me on Hughesnet) If you go win7, be prepared for new everything. I would never upgrade an existing machine to win7, but mine came with the new machine.
Anyone need a 10MB RLL drive, full height?

 

[California]

Trade ya for a 5mb ESDI! They are much faster.