What I remember is laughing at PC users while cheerfully naming my files any damn thing on my Mac. Good times, good times.

Back in those days, I couldn't afford a Mac. My first PC was a Leading Edge XT clone - I got it for $400 new because it was discontinued.

My officemate doesn't remember when file names had to be 8 characters or less (it was 8, right?). Damn, I'm old.

2006.

I mean, if you use Captiva ImageAccel. Parts of that application for sale today for mucho dinero will break if you try and put files in directories (remember when they were called that, and not folders?) with long file names.

I've become a lot more reticent about clicking on links (oh, the irony) since the migraines. I feel quite pacific about not having clicked on that one.

Now I feel kinda bad.

My Mac Performa had to walk uphill both ways through 12 feet of snow to get to the internet.

I think the Windows-standard DOS FTP program can't deal with filenames of more than 8 chars to this day. I'd go about retrieving MYFILE~1.doc all the time. (That's how it truncated stuff.) And till just recently, I was still using the free Paint Shop Pro, which worked on Windows 98+, and required short filenames.

The first couple computers I used had the OS built in (in EPROM or something). The first time I used a PC, I was thinking, "What is this DOS thing and why do I need it?" (That was for a work-study programming job. I programmed in qbasic.)

Now I feel kinda bad.

Pshaw. Just don't have lilies in your apartment when you invite me over, and we're good.

Captiva InputAccel is one of the top two enterprise capture applications now on the market. It costs a fair chunk of change, and does a boatload of nifty things. Handle long filenames and support rightclicking over thumbnails aren't so much in that boat.

Well, what she was saying is that when she was in high school (which was around 10 years ago), her family was definitely behind the times, tech-wise, so classmates were writing papers in MS Word, but she was using something called Eight in One.

And really, I had no idea that there was still stuff in wide use that didn't support the crazy ass names I give all my files now.

This is the first computer I ever owned: [link] A Radio Shack PC-1 (Pocket Computer-1). I also had the printer/cassette interface attachment thingie. That was fun. It had a single line display (LCD) and a whopping 1.5k RAM.

I had no idea that there was still stuff in wide use that didn't support the crazy ass names I give all my files now.

One of the common errors I run into with the program I support is that the filenames are just too long--or they contain funky characters.