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From: J G Miller on 12 Mar 2010 07:24 On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:05:09 +0100, Tosspot wrote: > "I still run MSDOS 6.22" > > <respect> But failed to win the extra bonus points if it was DR-DOS ;)
From: Paul J Gans on 12 Mar 2010 21:04 Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: >Tosspot <Frank.Leake(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> I still run MSDOS 6.22 with Windows 3.1, WIndows ME, Windows 2000 and >>> WIndows XP as virtual machines on my main Opensuse Linux box. They all >>> run fine. >> >> "I still run MSDOS 6.22" >At home I also got a MS-Dos (6.21, I didn't need the drivespace >addition of 6.22) and Windows (for Workgroups) 3.11 system. >It is also the first machine I ever installed Linux (Slackware 1.1.2) >on and has been a dual boot Dos/Windows vs Linux machine until last >year (it is a 486dx2/66 with 16 MB of RAM). As the machine got too >old and small for modern linuxes I removed it, so now it's a pure >MS-Dos / Window machine (mostly because of my old DBase and SuperCalc >applicatons and as I got the machine anyway). I'm surprised that the power supply still works. That's usually the first thing to go. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: Ulick Magee on 16 Mar 2010 16:11 Paul J Gans wrote: > > I'm surprised that the power supply still works. That's usually > the first thing to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague kicked in about 1999 or so, so electronics made before then were significantly more reliable. -- Ulick Magee Free software and free formats for free information for free people. Open Office for Windows/OSX/Linux: http://www.openoffice.org openSUSE Linux: http://en.opensuse.org
From: Tosspot on 16 Mar 2010 16:34 On 16/03/10 20:11, Ulick Magee wrote: > Paul J Gans wrote: >> >> I'm surprised that the power supply still works. That's usually >> the first thing to go. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague > > kicked in about 1999 or so, so electronics made before then were > significantly more reliable. I had it pinned down as poor quality magic smoke :)
From: Darrell Stec on 16 Mar 2010 17:27
Ulick Magee wrote: > Paul J Gans wrote: >> >> I'm surprised that the power supply still works. That's usually >> the first thing to go. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague > > kicked in about 1999 or so, so electronics made before then were > significantly more reliable. > > > Deja Vu all over again. I just replace the capacitors in a power supply for a customer. It took out one of the RAM sticks or visa versa. -- Later, Darrell |