Heyyyy! I'm an ancient warrior from the prehistoric age in which DOS ruled the earth. This is basically the way I ended up learning how DOS functions, so I say Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I have one of those exact same Compaq all in one models 425 CDS, I also have the model without the CD in it which just had a floppy drive. Yes installing MS Dos on them, I remember that back in the 90s and watching this takes me back. Have a great Christmas and a good new year, see you in January.
Oh man, this is me just the other day trying to get an old Unix distro. My dos 6.22 setup is flawless at the moment… BESIDES THIS DOPEY GENIUS MOUSE!!! Anyway, amazing series, every video was a blast and I got a new windows shell out of it!
Almost every 'expansion cards' I had when I was kid were 3rd party or clones, and their device driver parameters were not documented.... My AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS were so cryptic, I couldn't remember if I lost it....
You Sir, are hilarious. That was very enjoyable and it brought back many memories. Ah, the good and bad old days with DOS. Talking about archaic OSses, being a dinosaur myself I prefer CP/M over MS-DOS. By the way, did I spot there are lovely serial terminal? A perhaps a PDP, even? Not sure - but I did see a serial terminal 🙂 A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Indeed, there's some DEC terminals! The DEC VT180 featured brieftly here: ua-cam.com/video/8YwekFqma6Q/v-deo.html Plus there's a VT220 and a VT320. I'll feature them soon. The PDP you're referring to is a small-scale replica, as featured here: ua-cam.com/video/U8iv5pigHaA/v-deo.html And in case you didn't see them all, there's a quiet a few CP/M related videos on my channel: ua-cam.com/video/gZ9GvC6k-ko/v-deo.html Happy Holidays!
4:12 When COMMAND loads the BIOS and sets the memory and *even the system status is OK* you know it isn't MS-DOS! 😉Murphy, is it OS/2? 🤔 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone 🎄🎉🎆
Phintage vs a Compaq Presario CDS524: Presario won at points! A "knock out" at 4:50 by Phintage, but AFTER the bell ( 4:40 ) has NOT not to be considerated.
Damn, fighting with DOS system configs and memory management brings back memories. And a bit of PTSD... Once I figured out how memmaker worked, I was able to squeeze out more KB than it could. LOL
@@SmallSpoonBrigade This is true. For the most part, as long as you knew what you were doing (and most people who were using computers at the time did), it was both pretty easy to keep things running smoothly **and** easy to fix things when they failed.
Its funny, but I remember all of this. Its more fun when you have to start out by running Fdisk.exe to partition and then format your hard drive. Then you install from A: to C:, not the other way around.
@@Robert08010 True! The floppy sequ nce though was more a reminescence to the typical situation of getting to a broken machine, asiing „donyou have a boot floppy“? Answer was typically „no“, or awkward silence. Such as goes for „do you have a backup?“ ^^
Think entering BIOS on a vintage Compaq is tricky? Try triggering the DFU mode on a 2021 MacBook Pro. There's an absurdly specific time window of holding and releasing keys. Fortunately that's necessary much less often than the BIOS was in the 90s.
I began with the most powerfull DOS command to learn x86 assembly with Debug on 80286 CPU try and error. I saved first routines without a file extension not knowing that these files can use the "com" file extension.😂
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"In a world, where a single mistake can decide between order and chaos ..."
The valiant SuperDOSman!!!! 11!1!
Merry. Christmas and Happy New Year! Best wishes to you and your family as well!
I've been following every episode, this is one of my favorite channels! It's been so fun to watch all of these advent-time stories!
Heyyyy! I'm an ancient warrior from the prehistoric age in which DOS ruled the earth. This is basically the way I ended up learning how DOS functions, so I say Merry Christmas to you and yours!
merry Christmas Gianpaolo! and happy new year! cheers from Argentina
Merry Christmas and thank you for the Advent videos. Wishing you happy 2025.
My wife and I wish you also a merry Christmas! Enjoy the days! :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
May Father Christmas bring you everything you hope for.
Happy holidays! I watched every one of these while feeding my 3 month old every night!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for this fun advent calender.
@Computer_Freak_2004 my pleaasure!
happy holidays mate!!
I don't know about the TV and movie references, but these n00b mistakes were hilarious! 🙂 Happy holidays to you and yours.
At the end is from the movie 96 Hours (Taken) where a father talks with the kidnapper of his daughter over the phone.
@@roppongi765 Right, that's one! ^^
There's more ... ;-)
I have one of those exact same Compaq all in one models 425 CDS, I also have the model without the CD in it which just had a floppy drive. Yes installing MS Dos on them, I remember that back in the 90s and watching this takes me back. Have a great Christmas and a good new year, see you in January.
A wizard of DOS have the power to craft some new magic spells for the command prompt.
Lolol hilarious! I could totally feel the frustration.
thank you for all the fun : ) see you next year and happy holidays
Happy holidays!
I don’t miss dos… I miss old dos games!
Cheers!
@@GlockamoleG17Luckily, those can still be pulled from the drawer.
And they work surprisingly well even today, still bringing lots of fun.
This will definitely be me when trying this stuff out lol
Merry Xmas! 🎄🎁
Oh man, this is me just the other day trying to get an old Unix distro. My dos 6.22 setup is flawless at the moment… BESIDES THIS DOPEY GENIUS MOUSE!!!
Anyway, amazing series, every video was a blast and I got a new windows shell out of it!
Merry Christmas, i have a dejavu from DOS times XD
Been there, done that, dreamed of tossing the machine out the window. :)
TBH, I once really tossed something out the window out of frustration. Not a computer, but a printer, that drove me really nuts.
It's going to be sad going back to once a week on this channel. Merry Christmas.
@@SirKenchalot There will be advent 2025 ;)
Almost every 'expansion cards' I had when I was kid were 3rd party or clones, and their device driver parameters were not documented....
My AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS were so cryptic, I couldn't remember if I lost it....
You Sir, are hilarious. That was very enjoyable and it brought back many memories. Ah, the good and bad old days with DOS. Talking about archaic OSses, being a dinosaur myself I prefer CP/M over MS-DOS. By the way, did I spot there are lovely serial terminal? A perhaps a PDP, even? Not sure - but I did see a serial terminal 🙂
A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Indeed, there's some DEC terminals! The DEC VT180 featured brieftly here: ua-cam.com/video/8YwekFqma6Q/v-deo.html
Plus there's a VT220 and a VT320. I'll feature them soon.
The PDP you're referring to is a small-scale replica, as featured here: ua-cam.com/video/U8iv5pigHaA/v-deo.html
And in case you didn't see them all, there's a quiet a few CP/M related videos on my channel: ua-cam.com/video/gZ9GvC6k-ko/v-deo.html
Happy Holidays!
4:12 When COMMAND loads the BIOS and sets the memory and *even the system status is OK* you know it isn't MS-DOS! 😉Murphy, is it OS/2? 🤔
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone 🎄🎉🎆
@@ruben_balea that‘s another one, indeed.: RoboCop
But there‘s more ^^
Phintage vs a Compaq Presario CDS524: Presario won at points! A "knock out" at 4:50 by Phintage, but AFTER the bell ( 4:40 ) has NOT not to be considerated.
Damn, fighting with DOS system configs and memory management brings back memories. And a bit of PTSD...
Once I figured out how memmaker worked, I was able to squeeze out more KB than it could. LOL
And to think some of us actually **miss** those days! We are truly masochists 😄
Merry Christmas!
TBH, it wasn't really that bad, although managing the lowram was a significant pain.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade This is true. For the most part, as long as you knew what you were doing (and most people who were using computers at the time did), it was both pretty easy to keep things running smoothly **and** easy to fix things when they failed.
Hahaha i always thinking on that was a joke.
I remember when CDROMs were rather new fangled modern technology! First one I had was only compatible with the sound card!
Its funny, but I remember all of this. Its more fun when you have to start out by running Fdisk.exe to partition and then format your hard drive. Then you install from A: to C:, not the other way around.
@@Robert08010 True! The floppy sequ nce though was more a reminescence to the typical situation of getting to a broken machine, asiing „donyou have a boot floppy“?
Answer was typically „no“, or awkward silence. Such as goes for „do you have a backup?“ ^^
No A, B, C or D. Just plain Enterprise.
Right, that‘s number three.
There‘s more! ^^
Think entering BIOS on a vintage Compaq is tricky? Try triggering the DFU mode on a 2021 MacBook Pro. There's an absurdly specific time window of holding and releasing keys.
Fortunately that's necessary much less often than the BIOS was in the 90s.
I began with the most powerfull DOS command to learn x86 assembly with Debug on 80286 CPU try and error. I saved first routines without a file extension not knowing that these files can use the "com" file extension.😂
The parts other techtubers leave out of their videos.
Hahaha best one