A Windows XP help forum. PCbanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » PCbanter forum » Microsoft Windows 8 » Windows 8 Help Forum
Site Map Home Register Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Downgrading from Win 8



 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #31  
Old September 10th 13, 01:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Juan Wei
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 553
Default Downgrading from Win 8

Gene E. Bloch has written on 9/9/2013 7:34 PM:
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote:

I've been doing computers since the very begining --
my first was before floppy disks were invented and before
the word "software" was coined.


Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before
1958.


I saw my first one Jan 59!
Ads
  #32  
Old September 10th 13, 01:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Ken Blake[_4_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 3,318
Default Downgrading from Win 8

On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote:

I've been doing computers since the very begining --
my first was before floppy disks were invented and before
the word "software" was coined.


Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before
1958.



I come close. I miss by four years.

  #34  
Old September 10th 13, 02:21 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Doug Chadduck
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 35
Default Downgrading from Win 8

On 9/9/2013 5:52 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote:

I've been doing computers since the very begining --
my first was before floppy disks were invented and before
the word "software" was coined.


Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before
1958.



I come close. I miss by four years.

I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967
  #35  
Old September 10th 13, 02:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Tim Slattery[_2_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 223
Default Downgrading from Win 8

Doug Chadduck wrote:

I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967


That's what I started on in high school, at just about the same time.
20,000 decimal storage positions. Look-up table to enable arithmetic
operations. Lots of flashing lights on the console!

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com
  #37  
Old September 10th 13, 05:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
CRNG
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 444
Default Downgrading from Win 8

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:21:55 -0700, Doug Chadduck
wrote in Re
Downgrading from Win 8:

On 9/9/2013 5:52 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote:

I've been doing computers since the very begining --
my first was before floppy disks were invented and before
the word "software" was coined.

Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before
1958.



I come close. I miss by four years.

I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967


I learned FORTRAN programming on that in college in 1968. The program
was entered via punch-cards.

By 1986 I was using a DEC PDP-11 that had a 2 MB removable cartridge
storage drive that used these 15" diameter cartridges
http://imgur.com/KBIbE5H

On the right of the image you can see the iron-oxide covered plate
inside the cartridge.
--
Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers
and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one.
Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those
newspapers delivered to your door every morning.
  #39  
Old September 10th 13, 06:46 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Bucky Breeder[_4_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 526
Default Downgrading from Win 8

posted this via
:

but, you
will get used to it - and be up with the times as a bonus for no extra
charge.

HTH.

Well, I probably won't live that long --but I'll try that
after XP stops upgrades and then Win 7 stops upgrades.
Being "up with the times" is not high on my list --- I don't even
own anything with a touch screen and, so fa,r haven't found any reason
to do so. What is the expression ? Ah, --- "he's old and set in his
ways". :-)


By "up with the times", I don't intend to imply a competitive race for the
sake of "being first on the block" or "keeping up with the Jones"; more
like, it's so much easier to keep-up than to catch-up; and the way
technology is accelerating, if we wait very long, we have to re-learn the
wheel, so to speeky.

YMMV.

--

"A sentient being's optimal chance at maximumizing
their utility is a long and prosperous life."
-- CMDR Spock, 'Star Trek - Into Darkness' (2013)
  #41  
Old September 10th 13, 07:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
No_Name
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 58
Default Downgrading from Win 8

On 10 Sep 2013 17:46:47 GMT, Bucky Breeder
wrote:

posted this via
:

but, you
will get used to it - and be up with the times as a bonus for no extra
charge.

HTH.

Well, I probably won't live that long --but I'll try that
after XP stops upgrades and then Win 7 stops upgrades.
Being "up with the times" is not high on my list --- I don't even
own anything with a touch screen and, so fa,r haven't found any reason
to do so. What is the expression ? Ah, --- "he's old and set in his
ways". :-)


By "up with the times", I don't intend to imply a competitive race for the
sake of "being first on the block" or "keeping up with the Jones"; more
like, it's so much easier to keep-up than to catch-up; and the way
technology is accelerating, if we wait very long, we have to re-learn the
wheel, so to speeky.

YMMV.


Well, If I live beyond the upgrading period for Win7 (XP Pro is
still a year from doing so!) then I guess I'll just have to give up
personal computing or then worry about learning Win 8 --lots of
experienced users around by then :-)
  #44  
Old September 10th 13, 10:26 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Ken Blake[_4_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 3,318
Default Downgrading from Win 8

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:00:11 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:46:20 -0400, Juan Wei wrote:

has written on 9/10/2013 2:45 PM:

Well, If I live beyond the upgrading period for Win7 (XP Pro is
still a year from doing so!) then I guess I'll just have to give up
personal computing or then worry about learning Win 8 --lots of
experienced users around by then :-)


You're missing the point.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "LEARN WINDOWS 8"!!

You simply make it look and work like Windows 7 and you'll be back in
comfortable territory.


+1


I am soon going to give up trying to tell him things like this. I'm
tired of repeating the same thing over and over. He either doesn't
read carefully what we write or else he is just .... (I'm biting my
tongue here).


--
Ken Blake
 




Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off






All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:55 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 PCbanter.
The comments are property of their posters.