Anyone remember Windows 3.1?

Windows 3.0 was first released in May of 1990, and now, 18 years later, Microsoft has http://lifehacker.com/5077432/windows-3x-nostalgia-thread">officially discontinued Windows 3.x.

Hell, I remember Cassette BASIC.

And I thought I'd missed punch-card programming at Va Tech by a year or two, but I hadn't thought about scary, scary punch-card-based mainframe conversions ("What do you mean I have to load all that crap back in!" and "Oh, f***! I dropped the box of punch-cards!")

Lots of sleepless nights in the mid-80s.

mikey_the_rat

Wonder if they're worth anything?

I'm having nightmare flashbacks about how awful that OS was.

just kidding

That is about the only thing I miss though.

Yeah, that was handy. Notepad just doesn't cut it. There must be an open-source alternative out there.

I hate Notepad and loved Cardfile.

http://www.azzcardfile.biz">AZZ Cardfile

Features:
* Support MS Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista
* Data files (cardfiles) are compressed, encrypted and can be password protected
* Cards count and card sizes are limited only by system resources
(tested 100,000 cards and individual card sizes over 10 MB)
* Support Rich Text Format (RTF). Objects (pictures, sounds, other things) can be embedded or linked in the cards
* Import Microsoft Cardfile *.crd files (text only) and delimited text files
* Exports ASCII and RTF files
* Merge several Cardfiles into one
* Ready for network – open files in exclusive mode
* Multiple cards selection from the list
* Print cards in different pages or continuously. Print list only. Print Preview
* Offer customizable background colors for individual Cards
* Remember creation and last modification dates for each card
* Automatically sort card list (filtering on typing)
* Search and replace text in cards
* Dial phone using internal or Microsoft phone dialer
* Autodetect and remembers phone numbers
* Send e-mail using default or user defined e-mail client
* Browse WWW using default or user defined browser
* Offer customizable appearance
* Store window position, size, toolbars, most recently used files and other options in the Registry
* Will minimize to System tray icon for one click access
* Does not put additional files in other directories (e.g. Windows\System)
* Does not require additional VBXs, OCXs, or database engines.

:woohoo:

Downloading as we speak!

Happy so far. It's very small (1.6MB), sits in the system tray aka taskbar. Small and unobtrusive. Seems to be well supported with updates without getting bloated.

I have a misc text file that I used to keep open with notepad. I would save little snippets of information separated with line characters. A card-file ap just makes it all more organized.

Thanks for reminding me of windows cardfile.

and a lot of them were great-- some were like rolodexes, others were like sticky notes, and you could sort on fields with a lot of them. Google "Cardfile" and you'll see some. The usual suspects: download.com tucows.com, majorgeeks.com... all have bunches of them

But I always ended up just using a text editor for quick notes. My all time favorite quick and dirty editor to replace Notepad is EditPad Lite: www.editpadlite.com

But, yeah, Microsoft did come up with, or steal, some really neat ideas like the original cardfile.

(Which probably wasn't the original anyway, since I had a DOS program, "cardfile.exe," that worked pretty much the same way)

It's web based, but I think it might do the trick.

but I don't see it as a replacement for a native application. Being web based it is handy for accessing notes from other machines but it's not as fast as an application running on my own machine. I like to be able to quickly flip through my notes much as I would a Rolodex.

pokes and peeks...

Before that it was Forth on a Commodore 64, that was after basic on a Timex/Sinclair 1000.

man, it was advanced.... umm.... yeah

:P

displayed green typewriter-font letters on a darker green field. It had lots of large floppys with it. We just got rid of it last year, but I think there are still some discs for it around somewhere.


mark

Computers at school had that on at the time, though the school used something else because Windows was "too slow".

Before that we had the venerable BBC Microcomputer system.

My first work machine was an PC with no hard drive, just two floppy drives.

MITS Altair 8800. Five minutes of flipping the switches on the front panel, That booted it to the point of feeding the tape through the paper tape reader. Then you could talk to it on a keyboard.

I think it came on 18 or 20 3.5 floppies. I loaded it on my old 16 megahertz 386 with and awesome 2mb's of ram. it took more time for the spell check function to run then it did to write an essay.

I had it forever...basically, from when I was a baby to the time I was 9-10 years old.

:cry:

Bye bye!

hard drive I had then. :)