How do I get rid of the migraine inducing animated falling leaves?

WavMixer said:
Yeah, I'm a hoarder too. I've got 3.11 on floppies and DOS somewhere in boxes hiding under a pile of dust. Still have an old 90Mhz Pentium box with a 14.4 modem and whopping 8Mb ram and 540 Mb HDD.

Ahh the good old days!
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I got started down the PC road with MS-DOS 5.0, have run every windows version since 3.0 and currently am running win 11. Been surfing the net since the trade wars days and the online Bulletin Boards, with Lynx as a "browser", then evolving to GUIs: Mosaic, Netscape and the Borg's own: MS Explorer. Now I run Mozilla Firefox and love it...
 
I guess I am old :)

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2kb of RAM. My first real computer was a Kaypro IV running CP/M with a 2.5 MHz Z80 CPU, 64kb RAM, 2 single sided 5.25" floppy drives, and a built in 80 column 9" monochrome green CRT. I learned to program in S-Basic, Dbase II, and Pascal on the Kaypro. Later I became a Commodore, Texas Instruments, and Atari computer dealer while programming on the side. I remember when I was introduced to C. It was a revelation. I wrote several program libraries, some of which are still in use. A couple years ago someone tracked me down to see if could modify I utility I wrote in C to blank the screen while another program was running. Apparently someone was still running a program that used the library I wrote. I told him it was so old it was not safe to run in the Internet age. I used arrays to hold binary self modifying 8086 code. Big no no nowadays. I was surprised it still worked at all.
 
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So. While us old farts are waxing nostalgia. Does anyone make an inexpensive 5.25 drive that’s USB capable? Have a few floppies I’d like to upload for nostalgic reasons. Not sure why…. Just trying to see if it’s even possible anymore.
 
Kerry Brown said:
I guess I am old :)

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2kb of RAM. My first real computer was a Kaypro IV running CP/M with a 2.5 MHz Z80 CPU, 64kb RAM, 2 single sided 5.25" floppy drives, and a built in 80 column 9" monochrome green CRT. I learned to program in S-Basic, Dbase II, and Pascal on the Kaypro. Later I became a Commodore, Texas Instruments, and Atari computer dealer while programming on the side. I remember when I was introduced to C. It was a revelation. I wrote several program libraries, some of which are still in use. A couple years ago someone tracked me down to see if could modify I utility I wrote in C to blank the screen while another program was running. Apparently someone was still running a program that used the library I wrote. I told him it was so old it was not safe to run in the Internet age. I used arrays to hold binary self modifying 8086 code. Big no no nowadays. I was surprised it still worked at all.
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my first was a "TRASH" 80 from radio shack -- aka TRS80
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then I "upgraded" to the COMMODORE 64....... and the rest as they say is history
 
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