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Author:  james016 [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:54 pm ]
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http://www.michaelv.org/

Old School. Minesweeper works on here.
Author:  AlunD [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:05 pm ]
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:shock: Shudders
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:34 pm ]
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Why?............Just why?
Author:  veato [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:11 pm ]
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Windows 3.11 was my first OS. Well that and DOS 6.22 which i spent most of my time launching games from.
Author:  rustybucket [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:48 pm ]
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Yay!

Nostalgia FTW!

8-)
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 9:27 pm ]
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It's brilliant, the attention to detail and the depth is just so nerdy!

You can actually open a DOS prompt, change directory and see the files. Even MediaPlayer has stuff to play :lol:
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:34 pm ]
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veato wrote:
Windows 3.11 was my first OS. Well that and DOS 6.22 which i spent most of my time launching games from.

I had win95 and DOS 7. Used to enjoy maximising the free memory out of the base 640k. I managed to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys enough so memmaker got me 632k of base memory free. Which was awesome because there was one silly game which needed 630k. Can't remember which game it was now.

JJW009 wrote:
It's brilliant, the attention to detail and the depth is just so nerdy!
You can actually open a DOS prompt, change directory and see the files. Even MediaPlayer has stuff to play :lol:

I was slightly disappointed when I tried but failed to read the quotes.txt file. Or maybe I've forgotten the old commands?
Author:  JJW009 [ Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:38 pm ]
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It's a very very cut down command prompt. You need to open Notepad to read the quotes:

Quote:
Some quotes I made up:

- "Indecisiveness is the destroyer of souls."
- "The pencil will never get sharpened if you ride the eraser."
"Any expense becomes $0 when you round to sufficiently large increments."
- "I conform to nothing but the gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear forces of nature, and those only on alternate Mondays."
- "Style only matters when swimming."
- "Swing band plays under yellow flash surprise."
- "Let society soon represent a faction that will slather zeal on you, but never me."
- "Most people are shallow like kiddie-sized pools. In the winter, they deflate and are hidden in the garage. But even in the summer, they are only a foot deep."
Author:  big_D [ Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:26 am ]
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My first MS OS was MS-DOS 2.1, a pile of poo, but at least they had introduced hierarchical directories by then! :lol: MS-DOS 1.0 was a flat file system. Can you image Windows XP or Windows 7, today, with only the root directory? :lol: Naja, can you imagine trying to boot Windows 7 from 130KB floppy disks? :lol:

My first operating system exposure was DEC VMS in 1980.
Author:  EddArmitage [ Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:51 am ]
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big_D wrote:
My first operating system exposure was DEC VMS in 1980.

We were still running that on the big steel mill control rigs last year! :lol:
Author:  big_D [ Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:58 am ]
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Don't knock it, it is a lovely OS. I much prefer it to UNIX.
Author:  John_Vella [ Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:14 pm ]
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How sad is this...?

I tried the Internet Browser on the Windows 3.1 page, and this is the first site I visited!

Oh, and it works! :D
Author:  trigen_killer [ Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:03 pm ]
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Meh!

See sig' I've still got a working PC with DOS/3.11 installed and ready to go (in my garage)
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