Antique Computer Software (Seriously)

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Antique Computer Software (Seriously)


Was doing some cleaning and came across these and thought it would bring back some memories for some of you...

I upgraded my first Hewlett-Packard Pavilion Desktop Computer running Windows 3.1 with this software.

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And yes, the discs are still inside...
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Some of the first Point of View gun games...

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Enjoy!

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Wow...talk about a golden oldie. Hang on to them for 15 years and they'll be worth a billion dollars! Haha
 
They'd really be worth some money if they had their original serial numbers on the box. I remember my days playing Doom and other old games on my old windows 95 lol.
 
Ahh, the good ole days before Microsoft clamped down on the licensing and you could install Windows over and over again. Good find!
 
and here we are years and years later and still have unexpected hang ups and blue screens!!!Im the MANIm the MANIm the MANIm the MANIm the MANIm the MANIm the MAN
 
I still have the floppies for installing windows 3.1. Well, I think they are 3.1, I havn't looked at them in awhile. Sitting in a container with other ancient floppies.
 
On a bit of a tangent, I have over 500 floppy 5.25 and 3.5" 720k from the Apple IIe/c era, about 1984 or so. :) Includes the Apple DOS that came with the Apple II, to further that, the monitor, drives and cpu/keyboard work perfectly. I also have the 80 column card with the extra memory.
 
Can you post pictures?

I remember as a kid, for a while we owned one of these. I dont know if it that exact model, but it was a kaypro. I dont know if we have any pictures of it. I remember propping myself on the chair and just typing random characters on the keyboard. Thats all I would do haha. I was probably 4-5 I would guess.

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I have a stack of floppies at work for Windows 3.0, and Windows NT. I still have a Virtual Machine running Windows 3.0 I fire up to play mine sweeper sometimes :D
 
I JUST found an old AOL 3 1/2 disk! Don't even want to know why I ever saved it. Those things were in every magazine at the time, along with getting them in the daily mail.

But to add to the original conversation, 'we' just tossed the 13 original 5 1/4" floppy's for MS Office last summer.

Bill
 
timaishu said:
Can you post pictures?

I remember as a kid, for a while we owned one of these. I dont know if it that exact model, but it was a kaypro. I dont know if we have any pictures of it. I remember propping myself on the chair and just typing random characters on the keyboard. Thats all I would do haha. I was probably 4-5 I would guess.

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I almost got one of those.
 
I had one of these in and around 1990 that the company I worked for still needed to use. It weighed 28lbs and had a 9" green-screen running DOS 3 I believe. At the time simply being able to carry one unit from place to place was a value-add; no matter the weight.

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Back in the late 70's the Radio Shack TRS-80 was in my house, with a whopping 128K of memory. You could upgrade to BASIC+ operating system and get 256K and some additional programming commands for about $150 (if I recall).

This was my first personal computer; purchased for around $699 if I recall. I worked for a distributor so discounts were applied.

System Details. The Freeman PC Museum... Largest Collection of Vintage Computers On The Web.
 
BillE said:
I JUST found an old AOL 3 1/2 disk! Don't even want to know why I ever saved it. Those things were in every magazine at the time, along with getting them in the daily mail.

But to add to the original conversation, 'we' just tossed the 13 original 5 1/4" floppy's for MS Office last summer.

Bill
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I still have an AOL 1.1 floppy running around ... I was actually a member back then, when gopher net was the way to communicate, before chat rooms, and the ability to email anyone on a different service.

Now I feel old :nomore:

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I remember Gopher net...man have things changed!

AOL WAS the only way to go for many years, as was dial-up. When broad band became more affordable and available, AOL just couldn't keep up.

Bill
 
First computer Apple II Plus, 64k RAM. Dealer: "You will never need more memory that that." No floppy disk drive but it used a cassette recorder.

This was a time before there were any PC's or Windows. LOL

First software: Visicalc, RobotWar, Colossal Cave.

Crappp... I'm getting old. ;)
 
I just googled it and it looks like these may just be floppys for updating windows 3.1 to 3.11

So I do not think I can do an install with these. I just had a flash back from middle school, or what is elementary? We were each given a floppy disc to hold our assignments that we did in the computers. I miss those days.
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