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Windows 3.11
L0gicB0mb508
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So this post just came from Win 3x using IE5. I forgot how much fun vintage computing was.
I bring nothing useful to the table...
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Optionsrogue2shadow Member Posts: 1,501 ■■■■■■■■□□Thats what I'm talkin about! Using the throwback haha.
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OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024i am now sorely tempted to get an OS/2 box up and running.....
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Optionsbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□I always wanted to try OS/2 (warp?). Haven't thought about it in years... now I'm eyeing my VirtualBox icon and doing a lot of debatingLatest Completed: CISSP
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OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024I always wanted to try OS/2 (warp?). Haven't thought about it in years... now I'm eyeing my VirtualBox icon and doing a lot of debating
I used to run a 4-node BBS off of OS/2 Warp, it was great! -
OptionsTheShadow Member Posts: 1,057 ■■■■■■□□□□Ahh Windows for Warehouses, I remember it well. Wait I have something in my eye.Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Forsaken_GA wrote: »i am now sorely tempted to get an OS/2 box up and running.....
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Even thought it is IE5 which is widely regarded as crap and just a mass of bugs, you're probably safer browsing with that then a current browser as who is going to actively try to attack with Win16 exploits...
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OptionsTheShadow Member Posts: 1,057 ■■■■■■□□□□Dude. You're sick. Go seek help.
I guess I should join him. I have one hung off my development lan that hasn't been rebooted in 4 years when its ups died during a lengthy power failure. Eventually the client will stop paying and shotgun and I can kill it and toy hardware. Brain once molested by someone named billg.Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO -
OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024Dude. You're sick. Go seek help.
What can I say, I've been looking for Microsoft alternatives since my teens hehe -
Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505I assume you two won't be using OS/2 with the Windows bolt on feature
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Optionsalan2308 Member Posts: 1,854 ■■■■■■■■□□This post is coming from Windows NT4 with Internet Explorer 2.0 (Build 1381).
It's not pretty, but it works. -
OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024I assume you two won't be using OS/2 with the Windows bolt on feature
Tried that on my first OS/2 Warp 3 install. Wasn't happy with it, upgraded to Blue Spine shortly thereafter. When Warp Connect came out, that's all she wrote! -
Optionsdemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819I went to the basement dug out the "box"
Windows 3.0 w/ a ega monitor, esdi drive (20meg), laser mouse that had to have that silver mouse pad to work, and pc dos 6.22
The older sgi wouldn't come onwgu undergrad: done ... woot!!
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OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024demonfurbie wrote: »Windows 3.0 w/ a ega monitor, esdi drive (20meg), laser mouse that had to have that silver mouse pad to work, and pc dos 6.22
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Optionstiersten Member Posts: 4,505Forsaken_GA wrote: »Oh I remember those mice. I loathed those things!
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Optionsmikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■L0gicB0mb508 wrote: »So this post just came from Win 3x using IE5. I forgot how much fun vintage computing was.
What about QEMM for memory management so you could load your TCP/IP, LanMan, Novell, and Banyan network stacks at the same time?:mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set! -
Optionsmikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■This post is coming from Windows NT4 with Internet Explorer 2.0 (Build 1381).:mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set!
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Optionsmikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■Exactly. And where was this valued software obtained from.
I think Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 are available on the TechNet downloads for those of you who weren't born when DOS first came out.:mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set! -
OptionsTheShadow Member Posts: 1,057 ■■■■■■□□□□I think Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 are available on the TechNet downloads for those of you who weren't born when DOS first came out.
Say what? No wait... ohh yea I guess.. sighWho knows what evil lurks in the heart of technology?... The Shadow DO -
OptionsForsaken_GA Member Posts: 4,024I got my first DOS with my 8088 dual 5-1/4 floppy Clone from Chicago Computer Connection. I'm pretty sure all my upgrades came from either EggHead, Elek-Tek or CDW (I remember dragging my NEC-3D home from the downtown store on the subway/bus) -- and then later maybe Computer City or CompUSA.
I think Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 are available on the TechNet downloads for those of you who weren't born when DOS first came out.
Ah, good times. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, so I beg borrowed and stole time on friends and school computers, cut my teeth on CP/M, thought it was great when I got to high school and they had IBM PS/2 8088's that ran DOS 3.3. My very first computer that I could call my own was a piece of crap 80286 with 1 meg of RAM and a 10 meg hard drive that I bought from the classifieds, and I had to wait until I was 16 and could get a job to buy it (just so I could run a BBS!)
I fondly remember when DOS 5.0 came out and EDIT.COM replaced EDLIN. I remember the horror that was DOS 4.0, and the reason for SETVER.EXE. I remember when DOS 6.0 came out and how I used the multi config options to build a tree out of my CONFIG.SYS so I could just press a number and play my game of choice (with optimized memory settings for that game, of course!) and I remember when I took the risk of using DoubleSpace and it killed my hard drive.
I miss those nice simple days, when you had to set your IRQ's and base addresses when you added hardware, and you looked for motherboards with a PS/2 mouse port so you could get an IRQ back. ISA video cards, then VLB, and SIMM's, MFM and RLL hard drives, and Packard Bell being a swear word.
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OptionsL0gicB0mb508 Member Posts: 538Is that Windoze for Workgroups 3.11 with the MS TCP/IP add-on. Or Windows 3.11 with a 3rd party TCP/IP stack (I used FTP Software a bunch & still have the DOS development kit in the big green binder).
What about QEMM for memory management so you could load your TCP/IP, LanMan, Novell, and Banyan network stacks at the same time?
I have to admit I cheated a little bit and went with WfW. I do have just 3.1 installed, but it's a real pain to get any networking on it. I installed Microsoft's TCP/IP stack for this little gem. I think I'm going to install netscape on it and see how well it does compared to IE5. It's been so long since I've used it.
I currently have Windows 95 installing, so I'm going to break it out here in a bit. Maybe I'll go download WinNuke. hahahaI bring nothing useful to the table... -
OptionsSabalo Member Posts: 100This post came from Abacus 1.0 using ivory beads and a callused fingertip interface.I'm no expert, I'm just a guy with some time, money, and the desire to learn a few things.
Completed ITILv3 on 11/20, working on College & METEO, reading Classics on my Kindle, organizing my music library with Mediamonkey & TuneUp, trying to lose a wee bit of weight by running, eating less, and lifting weights, planning for my stateside vacation, and wasting time posting on forums. -
OptionsL0gicB0mb508 Member Posts: 538All right, Windows 95 and IE 4 for this post. hahaI bring nothing useful to the table...
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Optionsbermovick Member Posts: 1,135 ■■■■□□□□□□Hehehe (Hope this worked)
Edit2: Close enough
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Optionsdemonfurbie Member Posts: 1,819wgu undergrad: done ... woot!!
WGU MS IT Management: done ... double woot :cheers: