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Like many, I had a DOS computer and I used a keyboard with it. Turns out it was a CON.
I'm getting my coat and my walker
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sure, but every computer came with PRN pre-installed.
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Nope. I built my first computer back in 1978 and my 'operating system' for a year or two was the Zapple monitor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapple_Monitor).
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I ... don't get it. I miss the reference or the idioms, probably.
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Bitte schön! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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I assume you've already grabbed your coat...
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We are still being scammed.
- Open a command window
- type "copy <name of text file> con"
- See the text file displayed in your command window
PRN is, IIRC, also still a reserved file name.
DOS - the gift that keeps on giving. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: DOS - the gift that keeps on giving
That statement could be ambiguous but just to be clear since the OP is referring to a personal computer those idioms existed before then and specifically Microsoft did not invent them. If for no other reason than because Microsoft did not create the DOS that they sold in the first place.
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jschell wrote: Microsoft did not create the DOS that they sold in the first place.
Is this documented, or is it one of those "we didn't go to the moon" claims?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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86-DOS - Wikipedia[^]
Microsoft purchased a non-exclusive license for 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products in December 1980 for US$25,000. In May 1981, it hired Tim Paterson to port the system to the IBM PC, which used the slower and less expensive Intel 8088 processor and had its own specific family of peripherals. IBM watched the developments daily, submitting over 300 change requests before it accepted the product and wrote the user manual for it.
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Not if you type format c: 
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: PRN is, IIRC, also still a reserved file name.
So is NUL
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The real meaning of that came to me, when I was working in Windows 3.0 and tried to save a bitmap as CON.BMP
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In 2016, under Windows 7, we had the same issue with a customer reporting a defect in the softwar. They were trying to save a file named con.prd, Windows failed (but since there was an On Error Resume Next statement the file simply 'disappeared', aka it was never created, and a bunch of other procedures took invalid data).
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It happened to me too. My EcoLab software used to have a file called aux.cc, and it caused much perplexity the first time I tried to compile it on Windows. Eventually, a colleague diagnosed the problem, and the solution was as simple as renaming the file to auxil.cc, which remains the case today.
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On Error Resume Next
It's just kicking the can down the road.
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The (legacy) code was choke full of those, I got fed up and one day I removed all of them and replaced with actual error handlers.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Good for you! You ought to be commended.
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crack troller called out (7)
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We give up 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh no, now I have to come up with another one! ☹️
crack troller called out (7)
(def) (def) (homophone) fissure [fisher]
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I thought of that but didn't know a troller was a fisher
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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