Windows 3.x

[Jaime Andrés]

Originally posted by rhoadesb@Aug 17 2004, 10:22 PM
I doubt anyone but Mr. Gates and close associates have access to MS-DOS 1.0. I checked into this once out of curiousity. If memory serves 1.1 may be somewhere available.

I hope someone keeps these things. They are history, and may one day have antique value.

It just goes to show how computer based technology surges ahead of everything else. If today I were to be offered a 1996 computer system, probably a 486 processor, 8Mb Ram and five hundred odd MB HDD I would fall off my chair laughing. However ask me if I would like a 1996 Mercedes SL 500 I would tear your arm off to have one...Why, because basically the latest SL 500 is not as fast, good looking as the older model. Not so in the computer world.

[locustfurnace]

Originally posted by Jaime Andrés+Aug 17 2004, 06:17 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Jaime Andrés @ Aug 17 2004, 06:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--rhoadesb@Aug 17 2004, 10:22 PM
I doubt anyone but Mr. Gates and close associates have access to MS-DOS 1.0. I checked into this once out of curiousity. If memory serves 1.1 may be somewhere available.

I hope someone keeps these things. They are history, and may one day have antique value.

It just goes to show how computer based technology surges ahead of everything else. If today I were to be offered a 1996 computer system, probably a 486 processor, 8Mb Ram and five hundred odd MB HDD I would fall off my chair laughing. However ask me if I would like a 1996 Mercedes SL 500 I would tear your arm off to have one...Why, because basically the latest SL 500 is not as fast, good looking as the older model. Not so in the computer world. [/b][/quote]
I just recently built a dedicated firewall and DMZ / web server on a 1995 machine. Works well. The firewall machine i built which does my NAT Routing was a 90mhz 8megs RAM, No Hard drive box. Also. it worked extremely well.

It all depends on what you wish to use the box for. Having a Quad Xeon Server with 16GB RAM is a waste of money for someone who wishes to just write an e-mail or surf the net. For the majority of people using computers these days. This will do them nothing but break the bank.

Todays machines really for the most part are in general, severely under-used. The power these machines have is wasted. Apps are not optimized, Windows is bloated, all hardware is controllerless and depends on drivers.

If the software would be better, we&#39;d not need the horespower to bootstrap the machines that are being sold today.

Its too bad people view these &#39;millions of cycles per second&#39; machines as useless. As they did spreadsheets and databases and word processing well when they came out in their days, What has changed? the words people process? no. The software has changed to being extremely bloated to the point of silliness.

[Ninjastorm]

Now before you go calling me crazy, im using VMware www.vmware.com

Program Name: Windows
Website: http://www.microsoft.com
Current version: XP
Desired versions: 3.11
Description: Um? Do i really need one of these? lol

Program Name: Dos
Website: http://www.microsoft.com
Desired versions: 6.2 or 6.22
Description: The best OS there is :P

[the gaffer]

sorry mate but these requests were not trial freeware or shareware and it would be illegal to post links for them, try searching www.ebay.com for a copy or try your local computer jumble stores or auctions , regarding site policies read this link http://www.oldversion.com/faq.php or you may want to try http://www.recycledsoftware.com/ for thr titles you want

[locustfurnace]

Originally posted by Ninjastorm@Aug 24 2004, 03:16 AM
Description: Um? Do i really need one of these? lol

Description: The best OS there is :P

Thats not what the description box means, Its not meant for a user comment, else it would have stated, place your comments here, It is for a description of the program being sought.
Besides that, If you are looking for these titles, Check
http://www.ebay.com


As the_gaffer states, it would be illegal to offer these retail products online for free.

[Mudley]

In case anyone is interested, you can get boot disks for many old, as well as new, OS at: http://www.bootdisk.com/. Since the boot disks are legal to share and they have the OS as part of the boot disk, you would be able to transfer that to a harddrive and be able to boot the machine from the HD. Many of the supporting files, especially DOS based are available elsewhere legally.

These boot disks usually included the utilities format and fdisk.

Mudley

[oscar]

i have found a site with a whole bunch of ol versions of winows if any one is still interested:

http://ww.ebay.com ( main site)

edited, sorry, this is not legal locustfurnace