A customer called wanting a program that runs on Windows 3.1 today

[nini]

LOL After a good laugh on both of our sides.... I found him some he could use. Go figure.. being a pack rat pays off.


A child with an old hand-me-down computer will be getting some Christmas gifts. :D

[MidwestMomma]

1. Probably runs better than my Windows ME

I'm just sayin..... :)

[nini]

2. You're probably right

:D

ME sucks.

[MidwestMomma]

3. One of these days I'm going to write a letter to Mr Gates

And demand he give all ME suckers a FREE upgrade to XP.

It really really really is the very least he could do.

[KitchenWitch]

4. No kidding

What were the developers thinking when they released that garbage.

[MidwestMomma]

5. I believe they were thinking "XP isn't ready so we'll slop this out"

And then they laughed all the way to the bank.

Or something like that....

[nini]

8. Again.. you're probably right

:D

[nini]

6. They're evil.... we hate them where I work

but they're the majority and we have to produce them for - they're EVIL



:-)

[MidwestMomma]

10. Back to WIndows 3.1

I think that was my first operating system.

Oh those were the days....Everything was exciting and new.

I laugh now to think about how EXCITED my daughter and I were to 'get on the internet'. We were on Prodigy...does anyone even remember that?

And then we got on there and didn't really know what to do!

Ahh the memories....

[nini]

19. It was the OS when I started my job

It was actually pretty stable considering. When '95 came out we started having a lot of problems and it hasn't stopped since :D

It was great when the internet was new - what did we do before we had the interents?!?!

[democracyindanger]

7. Good luck. Here's an inside look at MS:

I'm a freelancer, and worked on a project a couple years ago for MS. Specifically, the launch of the latest version of one of their app suites...some iteration of Office, I think. A big part of the effort was about getting the target to get the trial CDs--which had extremely limited working versions of the applications. Essentially useless. And here was the catch:

They expected people to pay for them.

This was during the middle of AOL promo CDs being stuffed in every mailbox in America. But MS wanted people to pay something like $10 for a trial CD.

So...good luck.

[nini]

9. Sounds like WalMart's tactics

:-)

[Robeson]

38. Windows ME! Wow, I'm so, so sorry. That had to be the worst....

...of the worst they ever produced. I feel for you. It's not even compatible with itself.

[MidwestMomma]

39. Not even compatible with itself

:rofl:

Ain't that the truth....

[Kellanved]

58. I am not so sure about that

3.1 sucked; 3.11 was another story altogether. (Yes, it sucked too, but we're talking about two completely different leagues of suckiness).

[AirmensMom]

11. Well, we still have our Atari 800.

Now THAT's old! :D

[MidwestMomma]

12. I remember when Atari was cutting edge...

That's how old I am :)

[AirmensMom]

14. So do I!

I even remember when my brother-in-law bought a computer kit (before Atari) and was SO impressed because it had 8K of RAM! That's how old I am. :)

[MidwestMomma]

21. I was impressed when my computer had a 256 MB hard drive

And I didn't think I would ever need more than that :)

[qnr]

25. LOL, I was in heaven going from cassettes to 88Kb floppies :) n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

42. My 286 had a 20 MB drive

And that might have even been "double spaced" (i.e. a 10 MB drive with capacity doubled by software)

But it still kicked ass on the Commodore 64 w/ the old clunky 1541 floppy drive that I replaced with it.

And (to the original topic) yes, Windows ME is absolutely the worst piece of shit excuse for an operating system ever written.

[nini]

44. I got through college with a 8MHZ (in turbo mode) computer

and no hard drive.. hahaahh


It did the trick at the time. I cannot imagine even turning that thing on now.. especially since I don't know where the DOS bootup disk would be. :D

[SW FL Dem]

45. Yep and that 286 cost about 2 grand. n/t

[CAcyclist]

47. Anybody Read Asimov's Sci-Fi Magazine

and remember that article debate about whether a $10,000 Wang word processor was better than a typewriter for a writer?

[DJ MEW]

13. Atari was still one of the best

Atari had some games on it that would keep you having fun forever. The graphics were terrible compared to now adays but the games were so much more fun then the jump and shoot crap we have today.

[AirmensMom]

16. That's right!

We have the arcade version of Pac Man. The Atari 400 played a different version. Our younger daughter thought she was supposed to catch the ghosts -- she thought it was pretty cool when Pac Man got eaten up.

[qnr]

15. Same here. And my ST & TT too.

[AirmensMom]

17. Exactly what are we keeping them for?

:shrug:

[qnr]

20. I still actually use them for various things, and I'm starting some

development work on the ST/TT side.

[AirmensMom]

22. Mine just sits on a shelf.

We even have the old disk drive and floppies to go with it. Just can't part with it.

[qnr]

23. My original Atari, a 400 that I bought in 1979, is still in daily use, in

a friends commercial photography lab over in Italy. He likes the monopanel keyboard, with all the chemicals he uses.

[AirmensMom]

27. That's amazing.

I wonder if there's a market for the 800. Maybe someone would pay big bucks for it. :)

[qnr]

30. You could definately sell it, they're on eBay frequently.

[AirmensMom]

34. I haven't actually looked for them on eBay.

Maybe I should ... thanks!

[Redstone]

18. Wanna talk old? I have a TI99/4A, and a May 1985 Mac

as well. Both work.

Redstone

[qnr]

29. Nice :)

[AirmensMom]

24. How's this ...

We were cleaning out boxes the other day and found OS2 Warp on diskettes (yeah, I used to work for them). We laughed ourselves silly.
:rofl:

[MidwestMomma]

26. Diskettes???

Now you're really showing your age :)

[AirmensMom]

31. It wasn't that long ago.

I worked on OS2 Warp from '94 to '96. They put the OS on diskettes. I think you could also get it on CD, but we only had a floppy drive at home.

[qnr]

28. Another fine product that could have been a contender, if it had been

handled right.

[AirmensMom]

32. Yes, it was good.

But they sure did goof up the marketing.

[qnr]

33. So true. Same with Atari (especially the Tramiels) and Commodore with the

Amiga.

[qnr]

35. I posted all of the above in the strictest Windows 3.1 sense, of course :)

:hi: --- sorry for helping to hijack your thread.

[nini]

36. no problem.. I'm glad to see so much reminiscing

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

37. I still have a computer that runs Windows 98.

It still works. Sometimes it is more fun to play games on or do just about anything else on than the XP machine. I despise XP compared to 98. Windows 98 was great. I just wish the newer browsers and software would run on 98. I honestly would ditch XP and go back if I could.

[nini]

40. You should try Win 2000

I'd rather use 2000 than XP.. seems more stable for what I do. I don't need a fancy interface. I'd rather have stability.

[catzies]

54. I only upgraded from Win2K in June when my PC blew up.

I loved 3.1, tolerated 95 and 98, and loved 2000.

Had to finally bite the proverbial bullet & go to XP in June. I hate upgrading.

[bullwinkle428]

49. I'm running Firefox without a problem on Windows 98! (n/t)

[Jamastiene]

56. What's the processor speed and RAM available on it?

I heard you can adjust Firefox to operate and look more like Netscape. Is that true? I know you can make Netscape look like Firefox.

[ET Awful]

41. Hehehe, back in 2000 or so when I moved into a new apartment,

I ran across a copy of Lotus 1,2,3 for Windows 3.1 on floppy disks (about 15 of them) :P

[nini]

43. Somone needed a floppy a few weeks ago

and NO ONE had one to use. Most of us don't even have the floppy drive anymore.


Who would have ever thought we wouldn't need more storage space than a few megs :D

[Mizmoon]

46. Is he running Netscape 3.0 too?

Does he use WordStar?

[nini]

48. WordStar!!!!!!

ahahahhahah I hated that program! But, considering there wasn't much else out there what could I do?

[kick-ass-bob]

50. We still use a DOS program here at work.

Because nothing does the job better. Isn't that scary as shit?

[qnr]

52. Not to me :) It is strange that it hasn't been improved on, but if works,

why not keep using it?

[kick-ass-bob]

53. that's actually what I meant by that.

That nothing else does the job.

(the guy who made it sold the company, and the next product was far inferior)

[LoZoccolo]

51. I still have this 25 MHz 386 laptop...

...which actually would be cool to put to some use!

[NaturalHigh]

55. That's actually kind of cool...

in a retro sort of way. I have to go churn some butter now.

[China_cat]

57. Best kind of computer for a kid.

Too slow for porn.