My 1992 MS-DOS Batch Menu
This is a picture of a MS-DOS batch menu I created for myself in 1992 and stopped using, apparently right around 1995. Windows 95 must have killed off the need for it, I guess. I made this with a batch file and I had a whole collection of other batch files to do cool other things.
From the menu:
X-Tree Gold was an awesome file manager, at the time when all we had otherwise was DOS command lines or the really awful Windows 1.x. I LOVED this program!
Blue Wave was what was known as an off-line mail reader. Used in conjunction with Telemate (modem dialing software, like ProComm Plus or Telix). For anyone under the age of 25, this is going to sound crazy, but even as recently as 1995 we didn’t get our messages via email. We had to use a thing called FidoNet instead and you needed a mail reader like Blue Wave to read the QWK message packets that you downloaded from BBSs. BBS stands for Bulletin Board System, which was a computer system you called into using your PC, a modem and a phone line to transfer data, files and these mail messages with. It was sort of the precursor to the internet and it was tons of fun. I still remember my favorite local system was the ComputorEdge BBS and I was a member of the coffee club there. LOL!
Qedit was THE text editor in its day. It offerred something that you could not find otherwise in a DOS editor at the time, editable keys. You could run a little tool that came with the editor and litterly tell it that every time you pressed any key or combination, it should do something other than the default. So, Ctrl-R could be your “make all caps” choice. This was HUGE back then because this could both save you a ton of time whenever you had some tedious repetitive task to get through.
Norton Disk Utils!
Duke Nukem!!!
Aahhhhh, good times.
