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Really miss stuff like this from back in the early computing days. One time we used MS Backup to copy Warcraft 1 from my friends computer to my own. Took like 8
by par 3y ago
Really miss stuff like this from back in the early computing days. One time we used MS Backup to copy Warcraft 1 from my friends computer to my own. Took like 80 floppy disks!
- eru 3y agoThat sounds like you copied the CD version via a floppy disk? It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk?
- mock-possum 3y agoDisk2Disk It’s the computer version of frottage
- woleium 3y agoremember laplink?
- iforgotpassword 3y agoI remember interlnk. It seemed like magic the first time I used it.
- gosub100 3y agohaven't thought of that program in decades, thank you. First time I learned about a null modem cable and just scraping the surface of RS-232. I also remember using crossover cables so I could network 2 computers on a high-schooler's budget.
- thedougd 3y agoIdeally with the parallel cable.
- bayindirh 3y ago> It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk? Did ever your hard drive died because you shut down your computer cleanly, discharged static electricity, removed the disk without jolting it, and installed to another computer with the same care? I lost a couple of drives that way.
- thedougd 3y agoRemember the days before auto park? You would have to tell the drive to safely park the head before you could move it.
- bayindirh 3y agoI was probably too young to remember these days, however probably a couple of my disks didn't have the feature. The disks I lost were 6GiB and 30GiB models, both were autoparking.
- xxs 3y agoThe park thing happened before the GB era of the hard drives
- bayindirh 3y agoI started with a 119MB Samsung, on a computer with a BIOS supporting custom low-level formatting of the drive according to CYL/SEC/HEAD parameters.
- NikkiA 3y agoIt was mostly only ST-506 MFM and RLL drives, almost everything parked automatically by the time IDE drives passed the 100MB size.
- xxs 3y agoIndeed, plus the jumper switches for master/slave mode
- par 3y agowe were definitely a bit too young to have thought of that :)