Wauw! I remember having a Star LC-20 dotmatrix printer as a kid. I used to make drawings with Dr. Halo III and printing them out and then color them in with pencils and markers. Never understood what the first two buttons on the printer ment or what they did 😄 PS: Always interesting to see what is on those old computers / harddrives. Brings back memmories.
I started working in Siemens January 2nd 1989, and soon got to get to know Simatic PLCs and the Step5 programming language and application. The first versions for PC ran on CP/M OS. Later the DOS version were introduced. How things have changed since then :) Nice video as always. Kind of bitter-sweet (because it reminds me my youth is gone forever), but mostly sweet, thanks!
Nice machine! 286 with amber Hercules is a pretty similar spec to the computers we used at college about 30 years ago. The graphical capabilities were pretty decent for the software that bothered to use them, as long as you didn't want colour. Most of the games that supported Hercules directly sadly just turned on an internal CGA emulation so they didn't look as good as they could have done on that hardware.
If you really want to grab a sector image of the harddisk instead of the files only, just use your Interlnk/Intersvr setup the other way (newer PC as intersvr) and run Norton Disk Editor on the old PC, saving a full sector image of the harddisk on the intersvr drive. Works a treat, also backups boot sector and partition data, deleted files and so on. You can also import this image into emulators and run it there.
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Absolutely nice tip. For newer machines, I think Norton Ghost (or earlier versions from Binary Research) also may be an interesting option.
Love that monitor. Everything looks so crisp. Also that Star LC-20 rings something in me. Could be wrong but I believe this or one of its early successors was the printer we had when I was still a little kid.
Wonderful to see the simplicity and ease of use of these programmes. With a VGA card and monitor it would have been really good back then. It still does many excellent things as well as a modern PC without all the massive graphical overhead and pretty pictures and effects surrounding everything that we see today that don't really contribute very much to the actual work being done. Love it 😊
I have fond memories of NeoBook and NeoPaint from NeoSoft. OSCS was NeoSoft's predecessor and started NeoShow and the first version of QuikMenu, a wonderful graphical menuing application for DOS based operating systems. Finally, that graphical package from Paperback Software deserves to be preserved. Great video.
I like that transistor identification program. I would still use that now on a modern system via dosbox. Quicker than searching for datasheets online. Did you upload the HDD image to anywhere online. Do you have a link to it?
These come with DOS 6 only. They copy the functionality of LapLink which did the same thing 10 years earlier. LapLink can even bootstrap itself with a couple typed commands on the destination machine. Super handy to get files onto older PCs.
@@edsiefker1301 I just looked in my MS-DOS 6.22 directory and found INTERLNK.EXE and INTERSVR.EXE. They’ve been under my nose for about 2 years and I never knew it! 🤓
Active@ Disk Imager makes a standards compliant disk image in DOS. I've been using it for many of my old computers. I still save the image over interlnk to an external computer as expected. Especially with MFM machines.
I forget the name of virus but it was relatively harmless. We shipped a small program on a 3.5" Diskette with a particular product. Sure enough a customer called in to tell us. Needless to say, we purchased two anti-virus protection programs. The main thing is that it was embarrassing. No diskette went to customers again without being literally double check.
A star printer… my dad’s first printer was a star nl-10. In the Netherlands the “Belastingdienst” had tax return software on a diskette in the 90’s. Nowerdays it’s all on-line. The graphics have to be Hercules on this one since it does graphics, it looks quite sharp.
I never used any of those DOS launcher interfaces, looking back I wonder why - they seemed pretty useful. Just was never part of how I used my DOS PC's though, I never bought a branded one and built them up from parts though. Given the industrial software that was installed, combined with more home/family computing software it definitely looks like this was a PC that someone brought home from their work :)
Some of the DOS launcher/menu programs would eat into the available 640K, eg. Microsoft's DOSSHELL. The better ones would dynamically generate a .bat file, unload themselves then run the .bat file.
That Yankee Doodle virus is hilarious! Probably harmless, but I'm sure it'd get annoying after a while. Imagine an office full of computers infected with that, lol.
I find it interesting that you say this computer was owned by a family, and yet it has all those business and industrial programs on it, perhaps its previous owners received it second hand. It would be interesting to see a game like Wolfenstein 3D running on that amber monitor, but it probably doesn't support the graphics configuration the computer is using just now.
Out of what was shown in the video, I think it might have been the Microsoft antivirus program. At the 10:33 mark, all the amber sections of the monitor appear to match up with the burnt-in areas. I wonder why the previous owner was spending so much time in an antivirus program… maybe they mistakenly left it onscreen for awhile? Or maybe they got a lot of viruses over the years lol.
A new ribbon and some tractor feed paper and you're good to go. :) Try not to let it print against the bare platen, it's not good for the ribbon or the pins in the print head.
Right away when in NC, I spot the BELIMP directory! Flashbacks to my parents also using my computer for tax purposes... Luckily they only needed that one for 1 year because I created a RAM disk (using vdisk.sys) and moved that directory on there, then rebooted... Oops!
From memory file transfers over parallel with Interlink/LapLink or XTreeLink were typically 3 Mb/minute. Smartdrv might help if there are lots of small files to be copied, or if they were very fragmented, since its greatest benefit back then was to reduce hard disk seeking.
@@zoomosis From top of the head, I remember that parallel can achieve 1.5mbits/sec and I saw the footage, it was painfully slow to see filenames appear so slowly unless the program only shows status every 5 secs or so. I know smartdrv can improve hdd readings to memory buffer maybe dma. Long since I played with DOS, I remember it came with AV, scandisk, defrag for fat16, compression, a shell.
I try to be mindful about it and not to expose too much personal info. Except for the generic last name and some numbers (out of context) no privacy rules have been broken :)
Yankee Doodle strikes again ! That's what we typed after the command on my colleague's computers to make them believe their system got infected too. lol
Memory was expensive! Most 286 PCs never had more than 1 MB RAM. The extra 384 KB above the 640 KB barrier could be used for disk caching or a RAM disk but often went unused. This only started to change after the release of Windows 3.0.
You should check it out for the rootkit that Sony infested everyone with at the time. More info here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-imMRzBzQm1U.html
