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Old 07-11-2008, 02:09 AM   #1
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Default Windows 3.11 (1993) officially dead in November

http://blogs.msdn.com/jcoyne/archive...-for-3-11.aspx
Ahh. The 3.xx series... Good times.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:13 AM   #2
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lol.....geez, by books it's long dead. I would think that corporates that has custom apps build in these platform has long migrated to the newer windows.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:29 AM   #3
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I need to dig out my foppy disks of Windows 286 and the copy of Corel Draw that went along with it heheh
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Old 07-11-2008, 04:57 AM   #4
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I quite liked Windows 3.1. I thought it was simple and easy-to-use.
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Old 07-11-2008, 05:59 AM   #5
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Original package:



And who has working FDD's these days? Not me.

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Old 07-11-2008, 07:49 AM   #6
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^Me! Well, at least the 3.5' variety. I have an old Compaq Presario sitting in my bedroom, sans monitor, so essentially useless. My dad kept it because it had some stuff on it he wanted to back up, and it just hasn't been disposed of since. It was high-tech when he bought the machine back in 1998. The 2x DVD combo drive was top of the range back then. Now it's just obsolete.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:25 AM   #7
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I remember spending my sixth grade with Windows 3.0. Not that I was in sixth grade when Windows 3.0 came out. Those were the days...
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:27 AM   #8
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I still have my MS-DOS 6.0 disks.. although I do have a floppy unit, it does not work...

I never used Windows 3.1. I always choose DOS 6.22.
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Old 07-11-2008, 10:37 AM   #9
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Microsoft haven't changed their logo much over the yearsm have they? Haha.
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Old 07-11-2008, 11:22 AM   #10
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3.1 worked pretty good. Can't say the same for Vista. "are you sure you want to access your clipboard"

But I still remember the lines that formed at midnight to be the first to get a copy of Windows 95. Would you see that today, except I guess for the new iphone?
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Old 07-11-2008, 11:35 AM   #11
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what the hell is this! i was a DOS man all the way. screw windows. i worked with Q-Basic and DOS commands. it took everything i had to get windows cause i didnt like it but things evolve and i had to go to windows.


i loved all the DOS based games i use to play like Starflight and the original Test Drive... very sweet games and who can forget worms!!! old memories are good with DOS.
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Old 07-11-2008, 12:27 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Mattk View Post
^Me! Well, at least the 3.5' variety. I have an old Compaq Presario sitting in my bedroom, sans monitor, so essentially useless. My dad kept it because it had some stuff on it he wanted to back up, and it just hasn't been disposed of since. It was high-tech when he bought the machine back in 1998. The 2x DVD combo drive was top of the range back then. Now it's just obsolete.
I also have an old Compaq with 3.5. It's connected to my LAN, basically to seed and download from this site 24x7 . Of course the original 10GB hard disk is almost useless today, so I plugged an external 500GB drive. With a light version of XP and 512 kb RAM it is sometimes faster than my new notebook with Core duo 2, a respectable SATA drive and 2GB RAM, thanks to the magic of Vista !!
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Old 07-12-2008, 07:33 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by toffytofik View Post
Original package:



And who has working FDD's these days? Not me.
found those exact floppies in original package a few years ago at work.. I think they are still in the trunk of my car.. probably melted.
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Old 07-12-2008, 09:01 AM   #14
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i loved all the DOS based games i use to play like Starflight and the original Test Drive...
Test Drive!!!!!!!!!!!! My favourite game!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not sure there were any instructions with it so I spent many attempts poking around in first gear before realising that pressing A or whatever allowed you to shift up and go faster.

My dad kept all his old floppy disks. He still has some 5 1/4" ones. I'm not sure why he's kept them. I thought he'd chucked them all out until recently when he moved apartment.
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Old 07-12-2008, 07:00 PM   #15
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The Lian Li case I got almost a year ago came with a FDD. However, the Asus motherboard I got, did not have any ports for hooking it up. Just as it did not have any parallel ports for printers. (all USB now)
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