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Teaching a cat old dog tricks.

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by oz_media

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I don't have much of a DOS past, I made my name scroll across a VIC20 but I hardly think that counts, even if at the time it was cool.

I can't teach an old dog new tricks, but I have taought my cat a few dog tricks.

My cat, rolls over, sits, shakes a paw, follows me to the store and waits on the doorstep then follows me home. He even licks himself where I could only dream to lick myself.:-)

OM

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by oz_media

Why does a dog lick his balls?

Because he can.

Why would I want to lick myself there?

Because I can't. (save a lot of dinners and bullshit games too)

by thechas

Hate to be the one to tell you this, but your VIC 20 did NOT use DOS.

The VIC 20 and Commodore 64 used a version of Basic as their programming language. The OS was machine code.

As far as I recall (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) DOS started with the IBM PC.

The first "computer" (that wasn't built into a piece of test equipment) I used was the venerable HP 85. Which also booted up into basic. You had to load a program from the tape drive to add the commands so that it could access the IEEE 488 floppy disk drive. (Dual 5 1/4" 360K drives)

Chas

by guruofdos

The Vic 20 used CBM (Commodore Business Machines)Basic V2.0, hence the 20. VIC came from Video Interface Controller (which was the 6561 chip used for the graphics and joystick/paddle/lightpen ports). The VIC chip itself was a clone of the graphics and controller interface from the Atari 2600 game console.

As an aside here, Atari and CBM vere very close cousins, partly thanks to Jack Tramiel, who used to change between the two companies as he felt like it!

CBM V1 was the implementation prior to this for the Commodore PET. The difference? The Vic had extra commands to handle colour - whoop de doo!

The History of DOS

One of the first operating systems for personal computers was DOS. This operating system was a cut-down implementation of the CP/M operating system designed for the 8088 family of computers. The original implementation, called QDOS (Quick-and-Dirty Operating System), was designed by Tim Patterson for Seattle Computer Products. This product was eventually licensed to Microsoft, and Microsoft then demonstrated the operating system to IBM some ten months later.

IBM originally used the acronym DOS in the early 1960?s for their disk operating system for the 360 series computers.

So either way, DOS predatesthe IBM 'PC' :-)

I have an implementation of the original V1 QDOS for the Radio Shack TRS80 (Z80 based)...circa 1978. I also still have a VIC20 and fire up the occasional game from cassette when I think my 4.2GHz AMD games beast seems to be sluggish...it puts everything into perspective!

by oz_media

Actually what I meant was that I never worked with DOS, just a piddly VIC20 and then nothing until Win3.11 came out where I was asked to administer 150 workstations vith static IP adressing in a call center. I had NO experience and hadn't even seenWindoze before so it was quite the challenge as well as a great learning experience.
I would never make a statement as bold as saying Vic20 was DOS based because I had NO idead what it was based on, I hadn't even heard of DOS 'til the Win3.11 adventures.
Thanks for the info though, I'm sure it will come in handy one day, actually it probably won't and I'll have forgotten even if it does, but it''s info.
OM

by admin

It's quite amusing to see a cat run and get a small yarn ball and return with it to be thrown again! :)

by djent

I used to have a cat that would sit accross the room and wait for me to throw crumpled cigarette packs 4 or 5 feet above him, jump up, catch them in his mouth, bring them back to me and go sit accross the room waiting for the next toss. I have a snapshot of him catching one in midair. I had another cat that would show her distain for my sister inlaw by turning her back when my sister inlaw entered the room.

by thechas

Our dearly departed farm cat would beg just like a dog with his front paws folder down.

He also loved to play fetch with a little black yarn ball.

When the yarn ball got stuck under the furniture, he would look to me for help, and kept his head in my way as I retrieved it.

Chas

by oldefar

As my old mentor KC would say, cats are neat people.

Elby, named after the Croce charactor Leroy Brown, baddest cat in the whole damn town, after he picked up my pocket knife and assumed a bull dog stance the day we got him.

Simon, who followed my son around like a dog and once backed a couple of large dogs down and then chased them off the property.

Bonzo, 25 pounds of orange stupid.

Pook, current top feline. Considers our golden Lab mix his pet dog.

Willow. Just rub her bellyand she is one happy long hair.

by oldefar

Last night Jay Leno related the saga of his cat. Seems the cat has been making long distance phone calls - it first hits the speaker button to get the phone off hook and then presses a speed dial button. To prove it was the cat, he installed a survellence camera by the phone with a motion detector.

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