Als Geek Lab | I made my partner learn DOS in 2021!! @AlsGeekLab | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
I often wonder what it would be like if we bought computers that ran command line interfaces like DOS today, rather than shiny graphical systems like Windows and MacOS. How would the average non computer nerd get along with it? Well, here's a social experiment I performed on my significant other to find out how she fared when given the challenge to find and run a game program in DOS. I foresee laughter and despair ahead!

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Contents:
0:00 Introduction - What if we had to use DOS today?
1:10 Starting up
1:26 The mouse doesn't work!
1:43 How do we look up a file?
3:28 The Cat helps out too
3:44 The IBM Guide to operations manual
5:07 IBM DOS manual
8:20 Some DIRection
13:22 Learn by doing!
16:00 Changing DIRection
16:54 Burger Time!
17:22 Could you do better?