Windows 3.11
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I bought my very first PC (a Compaq laptop) in the nineties, I was still heavily using Macs then, as they were way ahead. The little machine had Win3.11 and a 1GB disk, I'm sure I never filled it up as WinWord still fitted on a single floppy. I still must have it somewhere, however I don't expect it to work any more, haven't tried it for years, and am not going to bother... :)
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Nope. I do remember the very first "Winchester disks" with a 5 or 10 MB capacity though. And early PC's where a hard disk (or a second 8" floppy drive) was a luxurious option. :)
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Nope. I do remember the very first "Winchester disks" with a 5 or 10 MB capacity though. And early PC's where a hard disk (or a second 8" floppy drive) was a luxurious option. :)
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I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:
I think my old system had a 500M disk, which was considered pretty big at the time. I'm not tempted to go back; I like Windows 7... Also missing from MSDN downloads: Windows Millenium, NT, and 2000. I have some of those from an old MSDN subscription, but doubt I'll ever use them...
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
Windows 3.11
What would you run on it?
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What can you run on Windows 3.11? Lots of things. Excel 4, Word 6. Visual C++ 1.0 Trumpet Winsock Netscape Navigator 4 What else do you really need? :laugh:
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What can you run on Windows 3.11? Lots of things. Excel 4, Word 6. Visual C++ 1.0 Trumpet Winsock Netscape Navigator 4 What else do you really need? :laugh:
All the "can't live withouts" right? :)
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I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:
Some of us still have to support commercial applications that run on it!
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All the "can't live withouts" right? :)
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yep! I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.
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yep! I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.
Kenneth Kasajian wrote:
I had to think back to what we did with computers before the Internet.
Slide Rules? :)
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I just logged into MSDN to download Visual Studio 2010 and I noticed I can also download Windows 3.11. I'm thinking of creating a partition for it, just for old times' sake. How big do you thinking I should make the partition? Maybe 100MB? ;P Strangely, though, it looks like I can't download Windows 95 or 98. I wonder why that is. I feel like I'm really missing out. :rolleyes:
Just for grins, I installed DOS 6.2 on a 3GHz Athlon machine a while back. Found the copy when I was cleaning out some stuff. Installed a few old programs I had lying around, too. It was eerie. The machine almost seemed psychic. The "answer" to your "request" was on screen before the enter key was all the way down.
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Some of us still have to support commercial applications that run on it!
I just simultaneously shat myself and puked on myself. Really took the piss out of me.
