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Phaelax
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I usually don't useless threads like this, but I was bored and came across some very old files on my machine. We've had in the past the most dba files on a harddrive, so how about just your oldest file on your computer in general, according to Windows?

Here's mine:
a photo from 12/3/1995

Can anyone beat an 11 year old file?

*awaits some nerd to whip out an old dusty backup tape*

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I have TI -99a code from making sprites from about 1980 on cassette tape somewhere in the storage.

the midde section here is deluxe paint from amiga days.

my db stuff is about 1999 onwards.

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ooo deluxe paint. I haven't a clue what I did with my old floppies from that.

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I think i still have my wizardry characters from apple II days as well.
hehe deluxe paint was grouse.

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I have disks with some of my old BTEC and STOS stuff. Might look one day and see if the disks are still readable. That should be about 1989. Unfortuantly my parents chucked everything from their old house otherwise I would have progams I created on the ZX spectrum going back to something like 1983. Although I'm pretty positive (make that 99.999999%) they don't have date stamps. Carbon dating more like.

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Hmmm. On my computer now? Grief. Unfortuantly, even though I have drives coming out of ears (ie. lots of drives) I am amazingly bad at backing stuff up. Probably the oldest file on the current machines at home is no more than 3 or 4 years old. My archived machines probably go back to about 1996 if I remember rightly. Longest still used file is my Lotus Organiser file on my work computer which holds all information about every job I have ever done here since 1996 (I had a mountain of paperwork on my desk after a year of work).

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 15:27 Edited at: 12th Oct 2006 15:38
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Does an old floppy disk of CP/M from 1976 count? I think it's the 1.1 kernal, but I'm not totally sure.

The oldest file I have on a PC drive however would be from my novel attempt back in 1989. I was nine years old, and the story is a massive 202 words long. It was copied from an old 40Mb HDD about 8 years ago, I've had it on various floppy disk and cd-rom backup ever since, but I still own the original HDD which is at the bottom of my cupboard somewhere. I am not sure if I acutally wrote the story on that disk mind you, I have a sneaking suspicion that the familys first PC just have 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. So it might be an idea to add 2 years to that, so 1991 perhaps.

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 16:22
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I have some computer games from the 90s... does that count?

Quote: "Carbon dating more like."

so with that they'd be what... 10,000 years old?

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 18:19 Edited at: 12th Oct 2006 18:23
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I can whip out game code for Backgammon written in BASIC for the Atari 400 computer circa 1983 (stored on cassette lol), but I think Phaelax means the oldest file on your current, modern pc.

I'm pretty sure mine will be the game 7th guest files from the original cd-dos version (1991 iirc), which is backed up on my current pc, unless there are some older windows files that have made it thru the eons to now inside of XP Pro.

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 18:30 Edited at: 12th Oct 2006 18:32
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i have a game my dad bought when it first came out 60/70's

Edit:
Themepark the original was it 70's?

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6/27/86 The character files for my Bards tale group The Killers Includes Legolas(what a nerd), Stile, Conan, HakPtui,Rastputin, and Yumpin. A group I started right as summer vacation started and played all summer often 20 hours a day.

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Quote: "so with that they'd be what... 10,000 years old? "
Ah, so you caught that subtle little joke there....

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My oldest content on Floppy is King's Quest on 5.25", circa 1984, worn to pieces from heavy use on my old IBM PCjr (every PC I ever owned between 1981 to 1996 was made by IBM because my dad worked for them, so my attic and an area of my basement are IBM graveyards with parts from various machines, like the PS/1, XT, AT, etc.).

The oldest file on my computer has been with my since DOS was still considered an Operating System, and it's my very first game concept, created in 1984 when I was a rugrat and it's been with me ever since for sentimental value. Someday when I've got about $20m or so to dump into a huge game project, and when technology catches up to my imagination, I'll make that game... well, it'll be a lot less childish of course, but the fundamental core idea will stay the same, not that I'll say what it is because if I did, no one would pick on me anymore for being so fiercely private with my projects


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1984 Matt I bet you wanted to make virtual Cabbage Patch Kids.

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 22:16
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curiously, my oldest file is from 1837.

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Quote: "curiously, my oldest file is from 1837."

Pc's did NOT exsist then.....

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 22:23
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Well Jesus had one, maybe Manic is Jesus?

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Quote: "Well Jesus had one, maybe Manic is Jesus?
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lmao but yea seen this?

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Posted: 12th Oct 2006 23:12
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Quote: "Here's mine:
a photo from 12/3/1995"


Can we see the photo?

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A photo of my nipples when i only weighed 23 stone.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2006 00:44 Edited at: 13th Oct 2006 00:45
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Well my oldest would be Delux Paint, Monkey Island pushover etc. if you considered my Old Amiga 500 before my Dad ebayed it.

So...I'm gonna go for this

a box of ground cinniman from 1979 in my cupboard, its older than myself and most people here ...which smells stronger and nicer than one we bought a couple of months ago. Food don't count, who cares

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i got a an old readme that is dated last EDITED 1/1/88, but i don't know when it was made...

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A few short stories I wrote when we first got our PC in 1991.

I also have a 5.25" floppy that I used in my computer class in Grade 2 back around '87.


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Quote: "a box of ground cinniman from 1979 in my cupboard"

Well, if we are going to go there...

i have a 1980 car, (datsun 280zx), so i at least come in second behind you , and with the way they keep releasing cars early (I.E. "Ladies and gentlemen, may i announce that this july of 2002 we are releasing the 2008 hummer!") maybe it's older

@Zaibatsu- can you upload it?

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I think I have some of my bryce files from the mid 90s. I will look around and see what I can find.

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Quote: "1984"

haha, I caught the reference
good one Matt

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Quote: "haha, I caught the reference
good one Matt"


Are you sure there was a reference in that? Just seems like a year to me.


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Chris Franklin, please.

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It really was just a year hehe. I'm afraid to say anything is Orwellian because I'm afraid it'll lead to a political thread lol. The game was based on a futuristic space war, but I was a really tiny kid, so of course all the aliens had enormous blue heads and looked crayonish But the idea was there, hehe. For whatever reason I always stuck to that plan, to make that game someday in the distant future, and over the years its morphed into a serious FPS/ RTS game, but still, I'm willing to bet I'll keep dreaming about that, even after I'm a ka-jillionaire, I probably still won't make it lol.

Well that's not true, I DID make it, it was the second text adventure I ever made, in 1986... 20... years... ago... ugh, old! Anyway, that doesn't really count, it was written all in caps (I hadn't worked out shift yet), dollars was spelled DOLERS, and it only had four rooms all written not in spaghetti code, but in beefaroni code. Oh, them was the days I tell ya. BASICA ruled


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Quote: "@Zaibatsu- can you upload it?"


I don't know. I don't know what it went to, and what content it might contain...

and anyways, why would you want my old files?

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Earliest programming code I still have is a driving instructer helper software I wrote for BTEC in 1989 in STOS on the Atari ST. Cow of a lecturer only gave me a C grade because my test data didn't really show the mouse pointer so was hard to use. In other words the b***h didn't even use the program. Totally destroyed those other GUIless mainly Cobol written projects, but there you go... Heh, the main menu was ripped from an Atari pirate disk Oh, and I also have a dungeon master clone (STOS again) from about 1991, which basically used up a hell of a lot of lecturer time in Uni. Was going pretty good until I realised my beer and women quota was only using up about 30% of my time (69% coding in STOS and other things, and 1% lectures ).

Um.... feeling old..... much like when my neice had never heard of films like Aliens and Predator.... Oh god, they are like 20 years old now.... practically classics... gibber....

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Quote: "and anyways, why would you want my old files?"

because the last time it was edited was before i was born, which is neat. but if you don't want to then that's fine.

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Quote: "because the last time it was edited was before i was born, which is neat. but if you don't want to then that's fine.
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oh. I'll see if i can find it, but i forgot where i put it...


Quote: "had never heard of films like Aliens and Predator.... Oh god, they are like 20 years old now.... practically classics... gibber.... "


I believe Alien is about 30 actually

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i have a bunch of libCon files dated 03/03/1991, i think whoever created the zip i downloaded's pc had the clocck wrong lol

edit: rofl this doesn't make much sense, the files were last edited in 1991 (although there's directx models in there :s) but they were created in 2006

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Quote: "I believe Alien is about 30 actually"
"Aliens". As in the plural. The sequel was my generation and Alien3 was s***e. Cannot believe it's about 20 years old now. Although some of my T-shirts are that old...

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Hello everybody... i'm back!

The oldest files I have period are tapes from the TSR-80 Model 1 (1977)... unfortunately I have no way to read the data anymore (no tape drive).

The oldest modified date on my HD is ZORK2RF (1/1/1980 12:11am) written in GWBASIC. About 3 years ago I copied all my Basic/QuickBasic programs to the HD to make a CD backup.

Looking at the program it appears to be the second program I made (the first being a bunch of lprints of Planetfall but it was too corrupted to get the first version from the TI-Pro 5 1/4s):
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Quote: "Can we see the photo?"


It's my younger sister and she was 10, no im not gonna post it.

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Oldest thing I can find is a file from 1985... Though I dunno if that is credible... It's in a Worms game folder. Wierd.

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if you mean on are curent comps then mine has to be a pic of a dancin lion from 2005 when i got my new comp, also the oldest file on evrey ones pc is windows beacouse you cant install or download any thing with out windows unless u got a mac

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That's why I said "the oldest modified date". The modified date was the last time that file was edited and resaved. Files that are copied from older disks keep the modified date intact and change the creation date to the day it's copied to the HD.
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