What is more irritating than young people talking about the “your” old times? Over at http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=147411818

someone seems to be out of there pension zone.

 Actually it’s not too bad an article but monochrome monitors were different to colour monitors and you can’t get them any more. You may get colour monitors that only display in two colours but they aren’t the same thing! The old mono monitors had a separate interface. I know because I used to write  a twin headed DOS application and the only way to do it was using a standard colour monitor and a mono monitor as they used different address spaces. For the mono you wrote ASCII directly into the adaptors memory and it rendered it into a very nice sharp font. The fact you couldn’t get them any more was part of the death of the product.

As for DOS - don’t most of us use a command line windows prompt everyday? OK, maybe not most of us but plenty of us do. And Windows 95 sat on top of DOS, everyone knows that (well quite few people claimed it did).

Is it coincidence that yesterday I was trashing floppies, looking at ZIP drives, using my PDA, typing at a “DOS” prompt and discussing dial up modems with my neighbour?

I expect the author was one of the consultants to Ashes to Ashes - in my 1980’s we didn’t have trendy concealed lighting, bay trees, constatntly visible bra straps, …