Ok I'm quite bored this evening but I know that's no excuse

Found a use for some old hardware which is quite cool in a completely geek way. This takes me back









David

 

3.1?

 

3.11 For Workgroups to be exact

 

Classic, used to have it on my dads B/W laptop with a 133 pentium and 8mb memory and 600mb HDD

My how times have changed, all for the better

Did you ever get the BSOD or any crashing problems like you got with 98, ME, 2000 and XP

I get none now im on XP-64 though, so they've at least done somthing right with it!

 

I well remember owning an IBM 286 PC, being desperately disappointed that the minimum spec for Windows 3.1 was at least a 386 and not having the money to upgrade (probably because I was about 8 )

I've got it here running on a PII 266 MMX with 64mb RAM and it loads so quickly I couldn't even take a picture of the startup screen

 

My company was still using 3.1 up until 1999 - but that's the civil service for you.


Ah, the joys of hacking INI files to get hardware to work...


M

 

I've got a customer still using an Amstrad PCW 8512! and whats even more shocking is you can still get spares for them

 

Lol. I remrmber having to test software on windows 3.0. I think I've still got the install floppies somewhere

 

I think I've still got one... somewhere in a garage at my parents !
Takes 3" floppys I think, has a green screen and attaches to an amstead printer. OS wise I think it uses CP/M or something and used wordstar !

 

Thats the one. the said customer uses it for their accounts

 

I used to have an OS/2 Warp box somewhere that literaly ended up as a doorstop

 

I have a 3.1 laptop, was going to put Linux on it just to see if I could, then I realised I am 36 in a few weeks time and life is too short.

 

loving the way the printer is balanced on top of the monitor

 

@ this thread - ok I admit it...... it has brought back some fond memories

Anyone remember Netware 3.x that used to come on about 50 million floppies to get it all loaded?

 

I think I've still got them somewhere

 

That PC moved into the spot where the printer normally lives - it was the logical thing to do

 

just hope you dont advise a) your clients or b) your friends the same way

 

Can you remeber what the Amiga looked like at the same time as windows 3.11

 

A hell of a lot better I don't have any decent photos of my old stuff. One of my 128K Spectrums with Interface 1, Interface 2, Multiface 1, Microdrive and Kempston Joystick connected, playing Sabre Wulf (loaded from Microdrive cartridge )

This one shows it all (a little) better