Re: Dinner Plans for This First Day of November 2024?

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2024-11-04, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

You're probably trying to use newer Windows versions on older
computers. Normally, Windows is easy to use, that's why it became so
popular.

 
 
Windows became popular, because people had to use it at work. It was
the cheap alternative to easier/better systems. Only a small
percentage of the population wants to learn more than one system.
The bandwagon started rolling when "Gates Garbage" was chosen for IBM
business systems. The rest is history. The CP/M guy, Kildall, really
blew it in a meeting with the IBM guys. Otherwise, Kildall would be
Gates, and our Windows crowd would be loving CP/M. Ain't big glitches
in history grand?
At least, that's the way I remember it.

All I remember was I was the only tech at SSC San Diego who could fix
the CP/M driven urinalysis system. Yeah, it was that old...