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Software nostalgia?
« on: July 19, 2012, 10:53:28 PM »
Poking around the basement I see a shelf with what appears to be a couple of very old copies of Lotus' office suite (whatever it was called) and maybe a couple or three copies of Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Anybody interested? If so, it's yours for the price of postage. I hate to throw anything away, but it has to happen. SWMBO has decreed that the basement rec room shall gain become usable as a rec room. (I can't imagine where she gets such strange notions, but ...)
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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2012, 10:57:41 PM »
I just tossed similar copies a few weeks ago lotus something or other and windows 95.
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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2012, 11:04:50 PM »
DBase II ?  Harvard graphics? 
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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2012, 10:40:44 AM »
Quote from: Hutch on July 19, 2012, 11:04:50 PM
DBase II ?  Harvard graphics? 

Negative. Sorry.

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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2012, 10:56:21 AM »
Quote from: Hawkmoon on July 19, 2012, 10:53:28 PM
Poking around the basement I see a shelf with what appears to be a couple of very old copies of Lotus' office suite (whatever it was called)

Smartsuite.

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and maybe a couple or three copies of Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Anybody interested? If so, it's yours for the price of postage. I hate to throw anything away, but it has to happen. SWMBO has decreed that the basement rec room shall gain become usable as a rec room. (I can't imagine where she gets such strange notions, but ...)

ich.  No.  Maybe if you had OS/2 Warp 4.  I miss that, sometimes, and wonder how it would run on some serious modern hardware.
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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2012, 09:39:57 PM »
I bet I could find my RPGII 8 inch disks somewhere down in the basement if I look hard enough.....


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Re: Software nostalgia?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2012, 02:09:54 PM »

Scan them to a USB drive and toss 'em. That's my preferred method for ancient software. 
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