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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor
    I grew up with the 1987 logo. But I so love the 1980's logo.
    both are good, 1987 is more professional, 1980 is more warez-like (or like a band logo)

    also, their definition of 'smart' probably has a lot to do with increased profits, among other user experience unrelated things, which mostly arrive per default, as alternative OS-s aren't up to the task yet
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
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    I grew up with the 1987 logo. But I so love the 1980's logo.
    The company is so fucked up now... Even by their logo you actually can tell they had smart key people in the company back then and not morons like now.
    I have images disabled, but as soon as I read the text I knew which company you were talking about...

    And yes, that 1980 logo is something you'd expect to see in the drums of a rock band
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    This is my favorite kind of installer: Click image for larger version. 

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    Have no idea what installer is it but I love those progress bars. Very professional installer with realtime view of CD and Floppy drive usage and HDD space. You don't see that today.
    Back then, functionality and usability was the basis of computing. Nowdays it's only eye-candy. To look good even if it doesn't work.
    Last edited by Master Razor; 24.06.17 at 19:26.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    I love those progress bars. Very professional installer with realtime view of CD and Floppy drive usage and HDD space.
    I never really knew what they were supposed to represent. An icon of a hard disk and "Low" written below sounds like low-level disk activity or something

    PS: I believe this is an old version of the WISE Installer. The first version of Half-Life used the same one.
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    I always thought that Microprose copied Microsoft's logo and some other stuff. If you look at this intro, you'll find their quite similar:
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    As for me, I once thought Microsoft had a division that manufactured networking equipment because...

    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    I always thought that Microprose copied Microsoft's logo and some other stuff. If you look at this intro, you'll find their quite similar:
    Game of my childhood! I remember having a demo on CD, I played this game so much. It was so much fun!
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    hoping to mod my xbox soon. just need a 2gb usb stick that works with the program im trying to use. then all the good snes/nes/arcade games will be up and running again =) its just not the same on an emulator on the pc
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    Have I impressed you, anon?
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    Impressive, so that's where the 1x cd-roms were back in the day. Always wondered why my first cd-rom was already at 2x!
    it's hip to be square
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    The tragedy of knowing and liking this kind of stuff is
    1. you need money to get them from the so-called collectors that are only interested in the money
    2. you need a place to store them
    3. you require big desks to use them on, old hardware are more bulkier in size than newer hardware.

    Wish I had the money to buy a big mansion with separate room for specialized gaming gaming. 1980s gaming room, 1990s gaming room, 2k gaming room and so on. With the look and feel of those days... A big room used as a library for CDs, and floppies and original books. I would die a happy man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor
    Wish I had the money to buy a big mansion with separate room for specialized gaming gaming. 1980s gaming room, 1990s gaming room, 2k gaming room and so on. With the look and feel of those days... A big room used as a library for CDs, and floppies and original books.
    then you could invite sbi members for a few weeks vacation in your mansion where everyone would be gaming through these era's
    those not into gaming could be amazed by your electricity bills and such
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    The tragedy of knowing and liking this kind of stuff is
    1. you need money to get them from the so-called collectors that are only interested in the money
    2. you need a place to store them
    3. you require big desks to use them on, old hardware are more bulkier in size than newer hardware.
    The first point can be less of a problem than you think. So many people are standing on goldmines, don't know (or care about) the value of what they have, and will sell it to you super cheap, or even give it away. See this and guess who anon123 is

    http://ms-dos5.tumblr.com/post/15482...n-of-you-at-my

    However, no. 2 and 3 speak to me and are a big letdown. I would collect so much stuff and never throw away anything if I could. But I had to get rid of or leave behind so many things, because this apartment is so small...
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
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    I grew up with the 1987 logo. But I so love the 1980's logo.
    The company is so fucked up now... Even by their logo you actually can tell they had smart key people in the company back then and not morons like now.


    Which is your favorite? I think I like the 1995 one the most.

    Every time a new version of Windows was released, I thought "there are no more ways they could reinvent the logo after this"... I was wrong, of course
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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