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Yes! Congrats on the print, Kevin! Loved it, voted, buying.

Yay! Felicidades amigo!!!

I was disappointed with the writer of the description. C:\BARDS_TALE would not be allowed. DOS only allows an 8.3 filename.
Even with that in mind this is still a cool shirt.

^__^

Can I run this as root?

Love it. Just purchased my first shirt woot. Well done!

Syntax Error

I never used DOS, my IBM PS2 has Windows 3.0 running at 16MHZ with 6 meg of RAM.. It helped to install a math co-processor. I had to replace the keep alive battery a few years ago and reload everything from my back-up floppies. That took a whole day..

As much as I would love to play the original x-wing game on my phone, no one should be encouraging George Lucas to revisit the past.

DO want!!! I live in the command line. Well, part-time at any rate. It's a time-share, really.

$ sudo apt-get shirt

Spiritgreen wrote:

^__^

Nice! Congrats on da print, Kev.

1981? I don't think a hard drive was available for the IBM 5150 until 1983. Prompts in that era would look like:

A>

(IBM PC)

or

]

(APPLE IIe)

I do like the shirt though

Here on 3eyore's mountain we have a ThinkPad equipped with interchangeable hard disks with DOS 6.22, Windows 3.1, Windows 98,and XP SP2 builds.

We also have spare parts for that ThinkPad.

We also have vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers.

We also have generators. And MREs. And weapons.

Ya just never know.

Woot, you need to get yourselves together on the sizing chart. Today's write-up has links to two different sizing charts. How is a buyer supposed know which one is correct?

this one is in the orange box: http://s3.amazonaws.com/wootblogfiles/2012.02.21a.tee.size.html

And a different one is two inches lower. Since its a pop up there is no link.

If you don't know what you're selling, it brings the whole changeover into question.

There should be an accompanying shirt offered that says "Only true geeks know that January 1, 1980 was on a Tuesday." I would definitely be in for one of those too!

jel2301 wrote:Here's a map of your neighborhood.

There actually was a valley in between my house and my elementary school, so I really did walk uphill both ways! Admittedly, not always in the snow.

It's kinda sad that the kids these days are probably trying to figure out what kind of smiley face this is supposed to be.

wesleyfurr wrote:There should be an accompanying shirt offered that says "Only true geeks know that January 1, 1980 was on a Tuesday." I would definitely be in for one of those too!

As the Doctor would say, 'It's a fixed point in time'.

Congrats to the artist... still, personally I would much rather geek out with this shirt...

Yay for Maryland

Ahhh...DOS. Welcome back my long lost friend.

bluejester wrote:C prompt.

C prompt run.

Run Prompt! Run!

Money

Ironically, in 1981, almost nobody had a C: drive. Most of us used single our dual floppy drives because hard drives were so expensive. So unless your company had a computer with a hard drive, you probably only saw A:\> or B:\>.

Me to my daughter: do you know this shirt means?
Daughter: oh cool - it's an angel smiley face, right? Like with a halo?
Me: no dear. It's not an emoticon. It's the C prompt.
Daughter: whatever dad. I'm gonna go chat that cuz it's a totally cool angel smily face.

Love the shirt! Worried about all the negative comments about the 'off-shore' blanks. Saw another discussion elsewhere that said the all cotton blanks weren't bad. (Which is what Woot is buying.)

I'm in for one and we'll see what the shirt is like.

ThunderThighs wrote:************************

MENS: Anvil

WOMENS: AA

KIDS: AA


Sorry I'm late.


Confirmed. Gold box will be added momentarily.

*************************

Really love this shirt and want to get it for my husband, but since men's shirts are on an Anvil blank, I think I'll probably pass. Sorry, Kevlar51.

I'm boycotting these overseas blanks. It felt so good to buy shirts here knowing they were made and designed in America.
Boo on you, who's ever desision it was to ruin shirt.woot.com

Congrats, Kev!

Also I'm not sure C:\BARDS_TALE could have been a directory... 10 characters. Wasnt it limited to 8?

mhatter106 wrote:Congrats, Kev!

Also I'm not sure C:\BARDS_TALE could have been a directory... 10 characters. Wasnt it limited to 8?

Would have been C:\BARDS_~1

I WAS going to buy this shirt, but since it clearly says that I can't wear it while playing around with my trusty C64 that I've had since I was 9 (in 1984), I can't buy it. Screwed yourself out of a sale there, Shirt.Woot.Writer.

It's pretty awesome - but in 1981 you would have had to have been rich or had a ram disk to get a C:> - should have been A:>

The phone I'm reading this on is more powerful than my first four computers combined.

triksterut wrote:It's pretty awesome - but in 1981 you would have had to have been rich or had a ram disk to get a C:> - should have been A:>

The colon (and backslash) we're introduced with MS-DOS. MS-DOS got it's start in 1982 when Microsoft bought 86-DOS (which used an A: prompt). Up until that time IBM DOS simply used A>

seahokedrama wrote:BTW- anyone find it odd that back when computer processors ran at 33mhz - the operating system was QUICKER to load than it is today with our fancy quad cores and bazillion gigs of ram.

There was less data to load. :/

mhatter106 wrote:Congrats, Kev!

Also I'm not sure C:\BARDS_TALE could have been a directory... 10 characters. Wasnt it limited to 8?

Yep, because there were 8 bits per byte.

Got it......

chris@jesus:~$ wget shirt.woot.com
--2012-02-26 12:07:51-- http://shirt.woot.com/
Resolving shirt.woot.com... 107.21.21.59, 107.21.21.60, 107.21.21.58, ...
Connecting to shirt.woot.com|107.21.21.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 52984 (52K) [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

100%[======================================>] 52,984 234K/s in 0.2s

2012-02-26 12:07:51 (234 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [52984/52984]

minifig81 wrote:Yep, because there were 8 bits per byte.

Yes, there are 8 bits per byte but that doesn't put the limitations on the 8+3 file system. That was OS dependant. 8 bits per byte mearly limits the character set to 255.

amreli wrote:There actually was a valley in between my house and my elementary school, so I really did walk uphill both ways! Admittedly, not always in the snow.

Probably you had shoes, too.

FWIW when I was in college I had two classes right after one another on completely opposite ends of campus and there were several quite steep hills between them. And when it isn't snowing in that little town, it's raining.

good one, but missed the space, dude