[EIDXA] Windows 10

[Jim Spencer]

Lew,

I remember fondly the good old days of DOS.  They are really not that far 
away.

Keep the old computer AND make good notes on how to run the programs!

Do you like your iPad Pro?  They look nice in the store.

73,  Jim

-----Original Message----- 
From: Lew Gordon
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 6:15 PM
To: Jim Spencer
Cc: eidxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] Windows 10

Hi Jim,

My first Windows O/S was version 2.xx which operated under MS-DOS.
Then came 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 95, and everything else to Win 10 which I 
currently
use on my desktop.  (I kept Win 7 on my notebook.) Like you I bought an
Apple iPad about 6 years ago and recently upgraded to the Pro.

As a retired systems engineer I purchased many DOS based engineering
programs over the years.  I also wrote a number of antenna design programs
Yagimax, Taper, and utility programs none of which operate under Windows.
Now the only way I can use any of my old programs is to fire up an old
486 DOS machine in the cellar with a 50 MB hard drive, 50 MHz processor,
and wait several minutes for the result!  That is if it still works!

Perhaps I should have gone the Apple route about 30 years ago!

Lew Gordon, K4VX

> On Jul 10, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Jim Spencer <Jim at SpencerHills.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> Years ago some of us thought freedom in our computer choices was the most 
> important thing and we hitched our wagons to this little outfit up in 
> Washington called Microsoft.  Over the years I've questioned the wisdom of 
> that decision many times but I've never been willing to make the leap 
> except for buying an iPad a few years ago.  Windows probably should have 
> been called "walls" or "gates" because the early freedom was mostly 
> illusion!
>
> Now, be smug!
>
> 73,  Jim


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