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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

My wife coaches high school field hockey. She told me how one day she overheard them talking about how one of them lost their work on a homework document and had to start over.

One of the girls said "you just gotta get in the habit of clicking the blue square", which the others were confirming is the thing to do. So then my wife asks "blue square, what do you mean" and another clarified "the save button".

They had no idea what a floppy disc was

[–] TempermentalAnomaly 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had to explain the save button to my 9 year old about a week ago. And then I found myself explaining what a floppy disk was. Tonight I'll ask him if he knows what that is a picture of. I'll be impressed if he remembers. If he fails the check, imma gonna launch into a lecture on boot disks, games, and batch files. Wish me luck!

[–] PlasticExistence 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Teach him how to manually specify his interrupts and to tune his extended RAM so he can play games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

After he masters that, get him an MFM or RLL hard drive and teach him to low level format it and set the best interleave.

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