Windows 3.11

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So this post just came from Win 3x using IE5. I forgot how much fun vintage computing was.

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skyline

I found this one. Enjoy!

Steve Ballmer selling windows

snokerpoker

I decided to set up Windows 3.1 inside dosbox after reading this thread.

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Mojo_666

I have a windows 3.11 Advanced Server CD which is still sealed so I kick all your asses. PM me for a pic as I cannot post such strong geek pron here.

blargoe

I threw away a sealed copy of Microsoft BASIC for the Apple Macintosh from the mid 80's sometime last year.

erpadmin

mikej412 wrote: »

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.

You're not kidding...I was talking to very cute young lady at a party who was born in 1990!!! Never felt so old........she was barely alive when I was turning into a PC hobbyist. 80386sx/16, 2MB RAM, DOS 5.0 (no Windows 3.1 at the time...that would get downloaded later

), 24-pin dot matrix printer (a Panasonic one at that), 40 MB hard drive (and yes, we're talking Megabytes, kiddies!! Gigabytes wouldn't be out for a few more years....and that was only 1GB and 2 GB!)....

Man, that does take me back!!! And yes, technet does offer the ancient software for download....was considering putting a VirtualBox on it so I could play the original Wolfenstien 3D game (and Doom)!! LOL!

erpadmin

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

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 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.

Kids today don't know what they missed

I too ran a BBS! My BBS is part of the nationwide historical BBS list. I was even a Fidnonet node for a brief time! I even had a "special" section of my otherwise legit board for "special" software.

Kids today really don't know what they missed. All they do now is plug in whatever and install a driver (if that!). In the old days, you actually had to configure those IRQs via jumpers....none of this plug and play stuff (though I'd be lying if I said I hate plug and play...lol but I am glad that I KNEW how to deal with non-plug and play devices.....).

krauser

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

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.

Kids today don't know what they missed

Amazing post. The old days, uh?