lol

I never get into time trouble when I'm using a Timex.

I'd think that this is a timex computer:

What about an emulator?

You mean a virtual machine?

Running Windows 95 on a 2 GHz processor? That would not exactly be authentic.

Does that mean 166mhz is too fast for Windows 3.1?

Whats the 16 yr old browser and pls describe the 20 yr old OS? Your pic looks like Windows 3.1 which was not an OS (the first Windows OS was Windows 95) and ran under DOS (Disc Operating System), it was basically a GUI ripped off from Apple, who in turn ripped off their GUI from Xerox, a real sad sack outfit that invented the first PC and totally failed to  market it properly (or at all, I forget which)

I'm amazed you even got that far with such antiquated software! Is there anything you can or do use it for?

I know Windows 3.1 is technically an operating environment and not an operating system. Windows 95, 98, and even ME are also operating environments and run on top of DOS.

I'd have liked to have got even further. IE5 didn't get on with it and IE4 refused to install for me on Windows 3.1 (yes, it was the 16-bit version). The 16 year-old browser on the first post is Internet Explorer 3.

Oh, and does running Windows 3.1 on MS-DOS 7.1 (Windows 98's DOS) count as authentic?

And it's running on a FAT32 drive to boot! With the right drivers, it can even access my USB flash drives! I kid you not!

I suppose this means that the Operating System is actually only 16 years-old, not 20? (MS-DOS 7.1 was released in 1997 AFAIK)

Yes.

rooperi wrote:

I miss my commodore 64....

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Ahh the Commodore 64. Nothing like having to flip your cassette and hit 'play' half way through a game.

I carried a slide rule my last two years of high school. (Never got my Pickett 1010 Trig until I bought one on eBay a few years ago. Now THERE'S a sweet piece of technology!)

Did you know Newton?  :-p

This isn't challenge. This isn't ancient technology. THe ultimate challenge:

run chess.com on a

ZARDAX system.

If you don't know what ZARDAX  was then you weren't in high school in about 1988.

There was none of this microsoft office either. We were REAL computer users. We used MULTISCRIBE

Don't drop your punch cards or your program won't run.

Man the day I was able to use dsl for the first time made me never want to return to 24k dialup.  I remember trying to use youtube and a 1 minute video took about 30 minutes to load.  

My hometown still runs on dos for most of their computer systems, from the public libraries to the schools.  Before I graduated high school, they had begun to upgrade the dos computer labs to Vista.  Why Vista?  Because Windows 7 was a defunct operating system that none of the programs on dos could run on and none of the staff understood how to use it 

Only a couple of months ago we upgraded from dial-up to satellite, so I know what you mean. Our speed before was 26.4 kbps, now it is 2 mbps, about 100 times faster.

How did you post this forum?