MS-DOS tutorial, or cure for insomnia?

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @NJRoadfan
    @NJRoadfan 7 лет назад +224

    The most advanced technology used in this production has to be the Video Toaster. Using a ballpoint pen for a pointer? How classy. I bet some guy (maybe Tony Hawk :P) had a Toaster laying around doing nothing and 2 hours of free time to kill. Its quite obvious this was unscripted, almost like a 20+ year old RUclips video.

    • @thespacemonkeyist
      @thespacemonkeyist 6 лет назад +12

      Quite possibly. Mind you, RUclips is only 13 years-old (Start Date: February 14, 2005) :)

    • @Windo0ows
      @Windo0ows 5 лет назад +12

      thespacemonkeyist r/whooosh

    • @archgirl
      @archgirl 5 лет назад +8

      @@Windo0ows Could you work faster on my Thinkpad R31 please? Thank you.

    • @jackgerberuae
      @jackgerberuae 2 года назад +1

      @@thespacemonkeyist and now 4 years more 😵‍💫

    • @rillloudmother
      @rillloudmother 2 года назад +1

      it mighta been tony hawk, he was doing video editing during the lull in skateboarding of the early 90s...

  • @Zurligen
    @Zurligen Год назад +50

    This video is extra special to me. That's my Dad! 1:19
    I was born less than a month after he made this. His voice makes me feel safe and at home. That must be how my daughter feels about my voice. She only goes to sleep when I'm there singing to her.
    Happy Father's Day!

  • @AidanHockey34
    @AidanHockey34 7 лет назад +338

    Hi I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such computer tutorial films as "Where's the power button?" and "Don't Copy that Floppy!"

    • @n_3719
      @n_3719 7 лет назад +5

      You? For real?

    • @FifoF
      @FifoF 7 лет назад +15

      It’s a fictional character from The Simpsons, so yeah, of course not. He was voiced by Phil Hartman.

    • @ian_b
      @ian_b 5 лет назад +13

      "DOS, Do's And Don'ts" and "Ctrl Alt Delete To Compete!"

    • @TSteffi
      @TSteffi 5 лет назад +3

      LMAO.EXE /HARD

    • @jacoblipkestudios7621
      @jacoblipkestudios7621 2 года назад

      Hahahahahaha, the Simpsons is the greatest show ever made, period.

  • @BigBadWolf1st
    @BigBadWolf1st 3 года назад +78

    I cannot tell you how many times I've used this to get some sleep!! At least 40 or 50 times now. I have bad sleep patterns and sometimes I have to force myself to take a nap and this works every time. Thank you!!

  • @PC-Gamer-000
    @PC-Gamer-000 5 лет назад +65

    "Current date is 1993"
    *sighs* I wish it was. Time flew by too fast.

    • @hewhohasnoidentity4377
      @hewhohasnoidentity4377 2 года назад +1

      Life was good when I was 12. Except the girl I dated then was a true psychopath!

    • @sgtjonson
      @sgtjonson Год назад

      I loved that the date format was yy in 1993. Nobody thought their machines would last seven years?!?

  • @skraegorn7317
    @skraegorn7317 3 года назад +105

    Oh man, the soft VHS audio compression and the static and the visual artifacts are so beautiful. Also this is really helpful, I’ve been trying to learn DOS commands in DOSbox and this is pretty informative.

    • @KeksimusMaximus
      @KeksimusMaximus 3 года назад +2

      Nice userpic

    • @vincentrosario5358
      @vincentrosario5358 Год назад

      @@KeksimusMaximus "Damn! those alian bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride!"

    • @KeksimusMaximus
      @KeksimusMaximus Год назад +1

      @@vincentrosario5358 Illegal alien bastards, I must say

  • @ewkalt4770
    @ewkalt4770 7 лет назад +54

    i actually put this on, plugged in my headphones and took a nap a few weeks ago. i slept for a good half hour.

    • @ABCEasyas--
      @ABCEasyas-- 4 года назад +2

      Did the beeping around the 25 minute mark wake you up?

    • @ewkalt4770
      @ewkalt4770 4 года назад

      @@ABCEasyas-- Haha, I can't remember

    • @KeksimusMaximus
      @KeksimusMaximus 3 года назад +1

      >took a nap few weeks ago
      Emphasizing this like you only woke up after several weeks of sleep

  • @fountaincap
    @fountaincap 7 лет назад +30

    Thank you! I have a soft spot for these quaint 80s/90s computer videos. Takes me back to a more innocent time in computing.

  • @urbzNspicez
    @urbzNspicez 4 года назад +192

    It's 2020 and I'm literally following along to this on windows 10 command prompt.. and it's working 😂

    • @zeddie4153
      @zeddie4153 3 года назад +22

      Also really nice with the POSIX standard. You can compile 35 year old UNIX software without any problems on a modern Linux computer.

    • @SEGACD32XMODEL1
      @SEGACD32XMODEL1 3 года назад +27

      Command Prompt is the intended replacement for DOS so that the not-so-smart user does not mess up the computer and older users can still use the keyboard more than the mouse

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon 3 года назад +6

      Windows 10 'DOS' has a lot of extra features that aren't in the original implementations of DOS. Some of them are actually kind of slick. Worth looking into.

    • @cornsyruptrucker
      @cornsyruptrucker 2 года назад

      Nothing changed!

    • @raymondleggs5508
      @raymondleggs5508 2 года назад

      😀

  • @archgirl
    @archgirl 5 лет назад +16

    Well, he's no Jim Butterfield, but I could certainly sleep to this. There's a 2 hour C64 demonstration and tutorial video from Jim Butterfield back in the 80's that I've used to help me sleep numerous times. Jim's voice combined with the background noise just sends me right off. Plus it has the perk of being genuinely enjoyable to watch when not trying to sleep.

    • @ChaosHusky
      @ChaosHusky 2 года назад

      I have to work with Linux sometimes..actually more often than i want to. That almost puts me to sleep sitting up :)

  • @Tnenamrep2
    @Tnenamrep2 2 года назад +8

    Used this last night.... it works as advertised. I fell asleep with it on, and slept like a baby. ☺

  • @LunaManar
    @LunaManar 2 года назад +14

    This was actually some very pleasant background noise to have while I was doing some arduous busywork at my job. 👍

  • @skaruts
    @skaruts Год назад +2

    I love that he's explaining it like he's teaching grandpa. That actually made sense back then, given that most people had never even seen a computer in their lives.

  • @jamesgrimwood1285
    @jamesgrimwood1285 7 лет назад +43

    Coming next - paint drying, and how to watch it.
    I also see where Microsoft got their Movie Maker template ideas from :)

  • @Skawo
    @Skawo 7 лет назад +124

    If this is a quick study video, I don't want to see the slow study one
    Maybe that begins by describing the alphabet

    • @germaineliew2012
      @germaineliew2012 7 лет назад +9

      Skawo The meaning of the C: \> Explained in 10 hours.

  • @justinhansen1328
    @justinhansen1328 2 года назад +5

    I always love the fade to black transition and something popping up slowly.

  • @bigsky1970
    @bigsky1970 2 года назад +5

    This video is much better than a warm glass of milk. The keyboard and mouse clicks make for perfect ASMR.

  • @thespacemonkeyist
    @thespacemonkeyist 6 лет назад +4

    Thank-you for this refresher course in MS-DOS. The intro gives the main commands. You only need to watch to the four-minute mark... Further watching induces sleep!

  • @strawberryjam3670
    @strawberryjam3670 7 лет назад +38

    Maybe some companies will bring out poorly designed computers with retro feel.I mean, Imagine a Crosley computer.

    • @JonnyInfinite
      @JonnyInfinite 7 лет назад +3

      Strawberry Jam *shudders*

    • @TheComputerGuy96
      @TheComputerGuy96 7 лет назад +1

      Those tablets or netbooks with Intel Atom and 32 GB eMMC are the Crosleys of computers. All that needs to be done is put it in an old school desktop case.

    • @strawberryjam3670
      @strawberryjam3670 7 лет назад

      I would see people using this, Crosley is not even manufacturing their turntables themselves.

    • @coolelectronics1759
      @coolelectronics1759 7 лет назад

      lmao

    • @coolelectronics1759
      @coolelectronics1759 7 лет назад

      the ones you can get for dirt cheap from asia lol. I wouldnt be surprised if the crosley company slaps there name on some of those

  • @bitwize
    @bitwize 4 года назад +7

    Using an Amiga with PC emulation or an x86 card to make this video makes a whole lot of sense -- because of the Amiga's built-in genlock, allowing for a steady and flicker-free picture of the screen.

  • @sethat8e
    @sethat8e 2 года назад +5

    This cured my insomnia in about 20 minutes. 10 out of 10 recommend.

  • @pablosebastian5823
    @pablosebastian5823 3 года назад +2

    It's wonderful taking on account that most of people still never was in contact with a PC. When you already know something, it's easy to get bored...

  • @PC-Gamer-000
    @PC-Gamer-000 5 лет назад +6

    This is an interesting tutorial. I was a kid during the 90s so I was never expected to be aware of this information. This is very important to know though.

  • @hefhef54321
    @hefhef54321 4 года назад +6

    Wait a minute! Am I the only one here that actually took this video seriously and took some notes about DOS? FML

  • @jamespilcher5287
    @jamespilcher5287 2 года назад +4

    I had no idea there was an unformat command. Presumably that only worked after a quick format and no further writes to the disk

  • @pwaffle
    @pwaffle 2 года назад +6

    Awesome calming video to ease anxiety and falling asleep!

  • @ssjaken
    @ssjaken 2 года назад +1

    I love how he stumbles over his words. Charming

  • @SquirrelMonkeyCom
    @SquirrelMonkeyCom 5 лет назад +16

    My videos kinda look like this video.

    • @plizie
      @plizie 3 года назад +1

      I'm a fan

  • @dhpbear2
    @dhpbear2 2 года назад +2

    This is classic "tell the what you're going to say, say it, and then tell them what you said" :)

  • @Fuzy2K
    @Fuzy2K 3 года назад +7

    "Sometimes, on the- on the uh, the uh.... Some keyboards...." Damn, and I thought *I* was bad at presentations :P

  • @kolrabi
    @kolrabi 7 лет назад +31

    Wait, how do I send commands from the screen to the computer again? Instructions unclear.

    • @NintenloupWolfFR
      @NintenloupWolfFR 7 лет назад +4

      Dick stuck in floppy drive !!!!

    • @coolelectronics1759
      @coolelectronics1759 7 лет назад +2

      I got stuck at the part where the keyboard swung out n hit me in the face lmaoooo. Wonder how many students started snoring during the midst of this film

  • @YoutubeAdministrator
    @YoutubeAdministrator 7 лет назад +47

    "Howto backup the harddisk to a floppy". crazy times.

    • @FurrySergal
      @FurrySergal 7 лет назад +6

      Someone sent me recently a huge box full of [about] 250 5.25" and not quite as many 3.5" floppies; all of them were backups, [the 5.25" backup set only went to 261] and every *single* floppy had its own sticker [1 of 384, so on] and I am not kidding on the number 384.
      Assuming the 3.5" set are 2HD, that would be . . .
      Sect/Track * Tracks/Sect * Amount of Disks [And lastly x2 for both sides]=
      15 80 384 2
      that's approximately *921600* potential points of failure during backup.. *and* restore . . . [not accounting for error correction but still]
      provided you could actually find the original backup program, and run it on modern - enough hardware... I mean sure I've had a handful of annoying errors when doing relatively critical things dependant on floppies.. but wow I feel bad for anyone without a tape drive back then.

    • @YoutubeAdministrator
      @YoutubeAdministrator 7 лет назад

      I guess daily backups wasn't a thing back then Yi.

    • @StampStories
      @StampStories 7 лет назад +1

      +Yi ‌ when i got a disk drive for my Altair, was probably the best day of my life... No more tapes, loading programs from tape is horrible, it took me 20 minutes to load basic on that thing. But with a disk only 1 minute, now those 8" disks were expensive but 100% worth it.
      I feel bad for those who never had a disk drive.

    • @borzak101
      @borzak101 7 лет назад +2

      An expensive hard drive was 5mb so doable.

    • @FurrySergal
      @FurrySergal 7 лет назад +1

      lol when the Altair was [still] around I was too young to realise things like fixed disks.. much less afford them, or an Altair. But I meant a datasette tape drive like an HP Colorado or iOmega Ditto [Dittos were absolute trash] not an audio cassette. Those I could afford and as much as I love old things.. I'll skip straight to the 8" diskette or even paper tape [some day] rather than an audio cassette. I do not miss them, for data that is.

  • @WhiteGreenFox
    @WhiteGreenFox 7 лет назад +10

    This is interesting to me. I could watch two hours of it for sure

  • @sam.9000
    @sam.9000 2 года назад +9

    Genuinely interesting and much better to fall asleep to than silly nature noises

    • @miroslavmilan
      @miroslavmilan 2 года назад +2

      Falling asleep to the sounds of computer wilderness.

  • @Domarius64
    @Domarius64 2 года назад +4

    The title may be joking, but I'm immediately adding this to my "sleep" playlist! I add really slow paced retro technical stuff!

    • @leezurligen227
      @leezurligen227 Год назад

      Thanks. I’m the guy who made this. Hey, I have ancestors named Hobson. They came from England to Illinois in the early 1820s.

    • @Domarius64
      @Domarius64 Год назад

      ​@@leezurligen227that's cool :) I don't often hear about my last name. We know our family tree only a couple generations back, all in Australia.

  • @zzyzxRDFwy15
    @zzyzxRDFwy15 2 года назад

    I enjoyed writing batch files using DOS. I automated my BBS using them.
    This is a good video to watch to help you fall asleep.

  • @Patrick-tf1ri
    @Patrick-tf1ri 3 года назад +12

    I’ve been using this as a sleep aid for 2 years now. Seriously... I can’t get past the 15 minute mark

  • @j2simpso
    @j2simpso 4 года назад +5

    The highlight of the film for me was the constant use of a BIC ballpoint pen to highlight parts of the screen. Talk about production value! 🤣

  • @Arkathtoo
    @Arkathtoo 7 лет назад +2

    Lets see if this can bore me to sleep. :^]
    I appreciate your efforts to remove the noise. I can't help but feel you put more effort into uploading this, than was spent on the tapes initial production.

  • @markusTegelane
    @markusTegelane 7 лет назад +62

    gotta wait for another ytp for this vid

    • @maybedos
      @maybedos 7 лет назад +1

      lol I was actually on the look for one.

    • @Lachlant1984
      @Lachlant1984 7 лет назад +1

      What do you mean by YTP?

    • @markusTegelane
      @markusTegelane 7 лет назад +1

      Lachlant1984 just look it up

    • @coolelectronics1759
      @coolelectronics1759 7 лет назад

      hey if any one is planning on making a ytp and needs music inbox me I got a cheasy song on my channel I made ur welcome to borrow

    • @coolelectronics1759
      @coolelectronics1759 7 лет назад +1

      "youtube poop" An alternative modern art form in which members of the yt comunity take television programs and distort them/remix them in different and unusual ways. Will most likely always have a hand full of meams thrown in. Dialog and vidio can be altered to make it seam as though a character is cursing etc. Lol sorry for the spelling just thought I'd chime in on this. There is a wiki im sure

  • @superapple4ever
    @superapple4ever 7 лет назад +11

    Going along with Command Prompt on my laptop lol.

    • @dylancruz1131
      @dylancruz1131 7 лет назад +5

      its not command prompt its MS-DOS

    • @superapple4ever
      @superapple4ever 7 лет назад +3

      DC4CODE Well thank you so very much for explaining that to me. I had no idea.

    • @dylancruz1131
      @dylancruz1131 7 лет назад +1

      hmm.. i seen ti have mis-read your comment i thought you said that HE was using command prompt.

    • @bitterlemonboy
      @bitterlemonboy 3 года назад

      @@dylancruz1131 There's no MS-DOS in modern windows versions. Just a command line that looks like MS-DOS.

  • @petersmit7650
    @petersmit7650 7 лет назад +22

    I can't find the Any key...

    • @ewkalt4770
      @ewkalt4770 7 лет назад

      i only see esc and ctrl

    • @redcrimson718
      @redcrimson718 5 лет назад

      😂 I love this so much... this is gold.

    • @Sam42069
      @Sam42069 5 лет назад +1

      juanpax64 all that computer hacking made me thirsty. I think ill order a tab

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад +1

    2:05 Three floppy drives. Impressive! Most impressive.

  • @44CT232
    @44CT232 7 лет назад +3

    As a kid, my dad once joked that I was the only person to ever read a DOS user manual from cover to cover, and even I would be bored to death by this :P

  • @SupaCLUCK
    @SupaCLUCK 2 года назад +1

    It's 9:51 AM and I haven't slept yet, thank you!

  • @semco72057
    @semco72057 5 лет назад +3

    I learned MS-Dos and PC-Dos during the early 1980's and first used it while working on a Timex/Sinclair home PC and from there working on many other versions before settling on the IBM version even though all of it was written by Microsoft.

  • @spearPYN
    @spearPYN 5 лет назад +7

    The command line will always remain the most elegant and beautiful interface to talk to the computer. I am still using MS-DOS and Linux in text only mode.

  • @rillloudmother
    @rillloudmother 2 года назад +3

    i was watching a MR Carlson this afternoon and dozed off, when i woke this was on. it was not easy to rouse from my chair.

    • @dan69p
      @dan69p 2 года назад +1

      Mr Carlson has a soothing voice and a nice tempo, in his videos 👍 a wise man, and very thorough, I've learned a lot from watching his videos, but I have to watch them early in the day .

  • @2ndPyleOfVinyl
    @2ndPyleOfVinyl 2 года назад

    Thank you very much for posting this. This one is quite the contrast to the "Kids and Computers a.k.a. DOS Level One" VHS that came out sometime around 1990. It was full of cute little animations (presumably made on an Amiga) involving basic do's and don'ts of operating a computer. There was even an animated "video professor" who would amusingly glitch out ("I'm the video professor and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm..." - lost vertical hold). I hope someone would post that one.

  • @djordjeblaga7815
    @djordjeblaga7815 7 лет назад +16

    "..and then two digits for the year."
    Well done, Microsoft!
    Fun fact: Press the windows key + r
    type "cmd"
    Press enter
    Now you can follow along with the tutorial!
    cheers

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  7 лет назад +18

      And he was wrong. You can type in four digits for the year -- and you don't need to use military time, either.

    • @robintst
      @robintst 5 лет назад +1

      And I have no Windows keys, I'm using a Model M. ;)

    • @archgirl
      @archgirl 5 лет назад +1

      @@robintst Oooooh, please gimme... 😍😁

    • @TSteffi
      @TSteffi 5 лет назад +1

      @@robintst If you have no windows key, press CTRL+ESC instead

    • @QoraxAudio
      @QoraxAudio 5 лет назад +3

      @@robintst Dude. Model M? How?! 😁
      Model M and Model F are l33t 😎

  • @ed10523
    @ed10523 7 лет назад +2

    Any Videos on how Grass Grows...LOL!! This video is actually useful. I remember as a kid going into my local library learning dos on a Tandy machine..Talk about a flash back!

  • @lupine25
    @lupine25 7 лет назад +4

    Dude... I am so converting this video to an MP3 so I can listen to it when I'm having trouble sleeping... :)

  • @rarbiart
    @rarbiart 4 года назад +11

    Make a 10 hours version please. just a few loops here and there. Nobody will notice while asleep....

  • @zoeyamon935
    @zoeyamon935 2 года назад +2

    i fell asleep with auto play on and i don’t know how i got here

  • @burgersquid
    @burgersquid 7 лет назад +26

    as long as we're all being honest here VWestlife, I'll often go to sleep to the audio of you, druaga, and bbishop's videos. this is kind of a weird thing to tell someone, I guess. I can't get any sleep to uxwbill's videos, because he's a little too rapid fire with his delivery and has a higher pitch voice.

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  7 лет назад +12

      You need to add Bob Andersen (bandersentv) to that list.

    • @robertodowney1963
      @robertodowney1963 7 лет назад +5

      Have you ever tried ASMR videos?

    • @burgersquid
      @burgersquid 7 лет назад

      Whoa, good call man. Subscribed!

    • @burgersquid
      @burgersquid 7 лет назад +9

      I have, droning sounds seem to work a little better for me though. Also, with +VWestlife or +druaga1 I might wake up knowing how to install Windows 98 on a grandfather clock.

    • @jamesgrimwood1285
      @jamesgrimwood1285 7 лет назад +3

      The EEVBlog is also good to fall asleep to. Find a lengthy oscilloscope teardown video and just let it play. It's like the nerd version of a bedtime story.

  • @retrogaminglife84
    @retrogaminglife84 3 года назад +1

    Thank you so much! This has been helping me fall asleep every night!

  • @westfield90
    @westfield90 2 года назад

    I miss these days. Seemed so much happier

  • @cornsyruptrucker
    @cornsyruptrucker 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for posting. I’ll be sure to listen to this while sleeping and become a command line pro!

  • @stevef6392
    @stevef6392 7 лет назад +1

    The advertisement at the end seemed better put together than the main content!

  • @cleverlyblonde
    @cleverlyblonde 2 года назад +2

    What did their "Long Study Videos: MS-DOS Basics" cover then I wonder? 😁

  • @kbhasi
    @kbhasi 7 лет назад +7

    For some reason, this video feels almost lie a video I would do myself

  • @6bim4uYGfeGSM4jdEm9g2
    @6bim4uYGfeGSM4jdEm9g2 4 года назад +2

    i like how casual this is

  • @wadmodderschalton5763
    @wadmodderschalton5763 2 года назад +1

    The VHS Tape that features the non-existent low-budget make believe Macrovision competitor, VideoLock copy-protection system (2:06)

  • @5argetech56
    @5argetech56 7 лет назад +25

    C:\>dir.
    How many millions of times have I entered that....

    • @lupine25
      @lupine25 7 лет назад +3

      I just need the tutorial video that reminds me to type "dir" and not "ls -l" when I"m at a DOS/Windows computer! :)

    • @5argetech56
      @5argetech56 7 лет назад +3

      Ken Nicholas Ha me too. Been using ubuntu since 2006 Dapper Drake...

    • @emvitt
      @emvitt 4 года назад +1

      I fix computers, so, I still do it. 😂

  • @jasmeetmatharoo
    @jasmeetmatharoo 7 лет назад +4

    Thanks for curing my insomnia.

  • @ian_b
    @ian_b 4 года назад +2

    So, it's like a tree, and starts with the trunk. That's the root. The root is the trunk. Subdirectories are branches off the root.
    Okay now I'm totally confused.

  • @Gravarty
    @Gravarty 7 лет назад +5

    finally a new source for noisepuppet

  • @sbrazenor2
    @sbrazenor2 7 лет назад +5

    I put this on and laid down, and got as far as directory management and navigation, before falling asleep. LOL :)

  • @helthuismartin
    @helthuismartin 5 лет назад +5

    Thank you for posting this on RUclips.It was very helpfull.

  • @webkinzfan05
    @webkinzfan05 2 года назад +1

    i was skeptical, put it on in bed, woke up having no idea what happened. safe to say it works!

  • @allanegleston4931
    @allanegleston4931 2 года назад +1

    its amaiZing how much we have forgotten about computers . thanks

  • @ILikeStyx
    @ILikeStyx 2 года назад +2

    "um the.... the program is ready to receive commands from the keyboard" I think they needed a script :P

  • @mlewellyn
    @mlewellyn Год назад

    As long as your cable is intact, and you're within the 32' or so, and it's specified for a similar impedance, you're gonna have a hard time hearing a difference by ear.
    However, you may well have occasional issues. A decent quality digital coaxial cable will have proper shielding and will usually be pretty close to 75 ohm.
    I am willing to bet that the raw spidf signal looks different on the receiving end at "it barely works" and "fairly optimal". The decoders are generally pretty fault tolerant, but that also doesn't mean that if you're trying to copy the source, you'll get a good copy even if it sounds OK.
    For great fun, look at what audiophiles have recommended over the years. I think the best I ever saw was RG6Q and *only* compression fittings... Because soldering and crimping change the impedance too much! 😹😹😹

  • @suikun245
    @suikun245 Год назад +1

    1:56:14 This comment has nothing to do with this video, but I remembrerd that when I was a child, I once rented the "Lion King II" videotape and after watching all the end credits, suddenly the entire movie started being rewound all the way up to the beginning and then everything went black, followed by the white noise image. (that appears when you playback a new blank tape)
    I think, that during mass recording, the operator forgot to stop recording(or thought he pressed the stop button, but actually did not) at the end of the movie and started rewinding the master tape without noticing that it was recording yet🤣

  • @ΓιάννηςΓανωτής-ζ2χ
    @ΓιάννηςΓανωτής-ζ2χ 3 года назад +2

    Very nice tutorial!

  • @BaconMinion
    @BaconMinion Год назад

    I really don't miss the days of MS-DOS.

  • @ACL9000
    @ACL9000 2 года назад

    I pity any creature who needed a video tutorial for MSDOS in 1993. They're probably just now receiving their Windows XP tutorial DVD.

  • @recklessvelociraptor2579
    @recklessvelociraptor2579 2 года назад

    31:28 how *.ba? different from *.ba* Is it limits extension to 3 letters with ?

  • @PardonJulianAssangeNow
    @PardonJulianAssangeNow 7 лет назад +8

    Seems like this video wasn't scripted in anyway

    • @desther7975
      @desther7975 6 лет назад

      any way

    • @leezurligen227
      @leezurligen227 Год назад

      Yes. That’s what my boss wanted when he hired me to make these videos.

  • @temporaryname8905
    @temporaryname8905 2 года назад +1

    Skip to 8:22 to learn how to ctrl alt delete.

  • @j2simpso
    @j2simpso 5 лет назад +5

    I’m surprised the presenter showed off the date command. If there’s one command that pointdexter has never used in real life it would be date! 😂

  • @livingdeadbtu
    @livingdeadbtu 2 года назад

    Time can be entered in 12 hour format too. Just as it is displayed

  • @sgtjonson
    @sgtjonson Год назад

    I feel great when I guess correctly the command being used, but annoyed if I think of a PowerShell command that didn't exist yet. I regularly use cd

  • @ObiWanBillKenobi
    @ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад +1

    Where's the Any key?

  • @thejananirmal3902
    @thejananirmal3902 2 года назад +1

    Is here the whole tutorial of dos

  • @eliotareed
    @eliotareed 7 лет назад +4

    Reddit.exe gave me a "not a command" error. Any fix for this?

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  7 лет назад +4

      Wrong error message. It would actually say "Bad command or file name".

    • @eliotareed
      @eliotareed 7 лет назад

      VWestlife ah dang, I knew I should have written the error message down before cls'ing the screen!

  • @CoreyDeWalt
    @CoreyDeWalt 3 года назад +1

    And um, the, the...the production levels are on par with such hits as, the room, and scream.

  • @cocusar
    @cocusar 7 лет назад +19

    Press enter to send the information from the screen to the computer? WTF. Also, the guy seems to be talking without a script, and uses "um" a lot. Thats really annoying.

    • @zhbvenkhoReload
      @zhbvenkhoReload 7 лет назад +5

      Santiago Hormazabal isn't that how RUclips tutorials are nowadays?

    • @ElysiumNZ
      @ElysiumNZ 7 лет назад +2

      Welcome to how things were back in the day mate.

    • @leezurligen227
      @leezurligen227 Год назад

      My boss wanted extemporaneous videos, so that’s what I gave him.

  • @macky1660
    @macky1660 2 года назад

    jokes on you, I love this shit. I for one, will not be sleeping when watching this. I have mastered the Linux terminal and my new territory is MSDOS. My autism is too strong to be quenched.

  • @Appleboy78165
    @Appleboy78165 5 лет назад +1

    Here's a drinking game for y'all:
    Take a shot every time the narrator says "um" or "uh".

  • @MindsEyeTHPS
    @MindsEyeTHPS 2 года назад +1

    Please reupload at 60fps, since your recent fake copy protection video for this tape shows otherwise.

  • @bitterlemonboy
    @bitterlemonboy 3 года назад

    Watching this is actually good for your attention span.

  • @jlk311
    @jlk311 2 года назад +2

    insomnia cured! thanks

  • @dukenukem5768
    @dukenukem5768 7 лет назад +4

    We used to pronounce "dosshell" as "dos hell"

  • @Veso266
    @Veso266 7 лет назад +1

    how where they able to put 3 floopy drives in a computer (2:06) isn't that imposible?

    • @vwestlife
      @vwestlife  7 лет назад +4

      That's a blanking plate made to imitate the look of a floppy drive, not a real floppy drive.

    • @geeeeeeo
      @geeeeeeo 7 лет назад

      Honestly, your level of knowledge never ceases to amaze me.

  • @cinemint
    @cinemint 2 года назад

    Why didn't he START with the Dos Shell and then get to everything else later? Introducing "easy mode" after an hour and twenty minutes seems odd

    • @leezurligen227
      @leezurligen227 Год назад +1

      Because that’s the way my boss wanted it done.

  • @Edman_79
    @Edman_79 7 лет назад +1

    Every age of human technological development brings its own specialists and experts. It's almost an extasy to watch this...
    (I really can't be more ironic than this)

    • @gurriato
      @gurriato 7 лет назад

      Edman There really wasn't any expertise involved in this.

    • @Edman_79
      @Edman_79 7 лет назад

      Of course! That exactly is the funny part. The fact that someone like that recorded a horrible LQ VHS and sold it to others telling them - we - the experts - will teach you - quickly - how to do this... I used 1.25 speed and still was not able to watch (or rather listen to) more than 15 minutes... and they covered how to set the freakin' date and list directories... What a piece of...

  • @juniorsilvabroadcast
    @juniorsilvabroadcast 2 года назад

    I'm already feeling sleeping watching this

  • @Veso266
    @Veso266 3 года назад +2

    Do you still have keystroke sheet somewhere?

    • @leezurligen227
      @leezurligen227 Год назад

      I kept a few of them as mementos of making these videos.

  • @joedaylight
    @joedaylight 5 лет назад

    "This quickstudy video is designed to be watched away from the computer"
    How ironic I watched this on my computer.