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Bungo Pony

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Does anyone else (like me) have a collection of OSes installed on hard drives? I don't bother with virtual machines, I find it just easier (and more drive space efficient) to recycle old hard drives and install OSes on each of them.

Here's what's in my collection so far:

DOS 6.22
Win3.1
Win3.11
Win98
WinME
Win2k
WinXP Pro
BeOS 4.5
Damn Small Linux

I'm still needing to install Win95 OSR2 and maybe a couple more versions of Linux, although I generally don't need them with their usage of Live CDs.
 
You know, I had a collection of operating systems in a CD pouch. I had the following:
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
Windows 95 C
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows XP Pro
along with some extra software. All licensed.

Then someone broke into my car and stole the pouch (I had it in my car when I worked on someones computer). Hope whoever stole it likes that Windows ME virus that's in it (which is why I didn't even bother to mention I had that).
 
I collect them (originals) and use them.

Mostly I collect Mac OS (have pretty much everything from 6.07 to 9.1 disks and cds), OS/2 (1.1E to warp4), Windows (3.0 to Win98se).

I try to get all the varieties while I am at it. Examples would be OS/2 warp 3 red spine, blue spine, connect. For Win95 I have floppy version, upgrade version, oem 95a,b,c etc. For mac I try to get machine specific verions as well as retail.
 
I used to collect virus-infected floppy disks (on purpose). I'd put 'em in a disk mailer, taped shut and labeled with the virus name on it. I had a couple hundred different ones, till I finally dumped 'em all during a move. (I know, I'm weird).

--T
 
I have:

Dos 5.0
Dos 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (OEM original)
Windows NT 4.0 Server (OEM Original)
Windows 95a
Windows 95a upgrade (on 3.5" disks, originals)
Windows 95b
Windows 95b OSR 2 (w/ USB support)
Windows 98FE
Windows 98SE (OEM)
Windows 98 Upgrade
Windows ME (had the original OEM CD, but don't know where it is)
Windows 2000 Workstation
Windows 2000 Server (OEM)
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro Upgrade
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Pro x64
Windows Server 2003 (Original Retail Box)
Windows Small Business Server 2003
Windows Vista Business (x32 and x64)
Windows Vista Ultimate x32 and x64
Windows 7 Beta (32 and 64bit)

I also have:
Plus95!
Plus98!
Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
Internet Explorer 6.01 SP1

What I need to find is:
Dos 1
Dos 2.0
Dos 3.3
Windows 1.04
Windows 2
 
Bungo Pony said:
Does anyone else (like me) have a collection of OSes installed on hard drives? I don't bother with virtual machines, I find it just easier (and more drive space efficient) to recycle old hard drives and install OSes on each of them.
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Original copies (I might have the exact names off, most of them are in storage pending a house remodel to add, among other things, a 'museum space' for my old systems:)

PC on floppy disk:
MS-DOS 3.1
MS-DOS 5.0
MS-DOS 6.0
MS-DOS 6.2
PC-DOS 3.3
PC-DOS 5.0
IBM-DOS 7.0
OS/2 2.0
OS/2 2.1
OS/2 3.0
Windows 2.1/286
Windows 2.1/386
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 95 (YES! Windows 95 on floppy disks.)

PC on CD-ROM:
MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.1
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95 (original release,)
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 95 OSR2+USB
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE (Both the original 'black on silver' and the newer full-face hologram)
Windows Me
Windows NT 3.5
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Windows NT 4.0 Server
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows XP Home (original release)
Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Professional SP1
Windows XP Professional SP2
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade (32-bit)
Windows Vista Ultimate full retail (which means it has both 32-bit and 64-bit discs)
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit (these last two special 'not for resale' direct from Microsoft, they are the equivalent of the full retail discs.)
OS/2 Warp Connect 4
plus a couple of "official" Linux distros.

Apple on floppy disk: (See also http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4614)
5.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.7 on HD, 6.0.8 on DD, 7.0 on HD, 7.0.1 on HD, 7.1 on both DD and HD, 7.1.1 Pro, 7.5. I also have two different versions of System 7 Tune-Up, System 7.5 Update 2.0, 7.5.5 Update, and the Disk Tools disks for 7.6 and 8.0

Apple on CD-ROM: (see also http://68kmla.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=28587)
System 7.0 beta 4 (also contains disk images for 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 6.0.2 through 6.0.7.)
System 7.5.0
System 7.5 Group Upgrade
System 7.5 Update 2.0
System 7.5.3
Mac OS 7.6
Mac OS 7.6.1
Mac OS8
Mac OS 8.1
Mac OS 8.5
Mac OS 9.2.1
Mac OS X Public Beta
Mac OS X 10.0.3
Mac OS X 10.1 ("Up-to-Date" upgrade CD, not bootable.)
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.4
Mac OS X 10.5

Other on floppy:
A few Apple II OSes, some NeXT boot disks (not really full OSes, it wouldn't fit,) and a few for assorted other systems. (Vic-20, Commodore 64, Atari ST, Amiga.)

Other on floppy:
NeXT OS 3 and 4. Not certain of the exact versions off the top of my head.
MkLinux DR3 (the only version to be offered on a pressed CD, this was sponsored by Apple partly as a test of the Mach layer that they later used for OS X, although OS X uses it with a BSD layer, not Linux.)

And I can guarantee you I'm missing some.

This also doesn't include some early PC games or other platform programs that booted their own custom kernel for the program.
 
I have Sord FDOS for mk III (SS 100tpi) and mk41 (DS 96tpi HD) drives, and CP/M-68K for the Sord M68 :cool:

Somewhere I have Win95 'June Test Release' (and possibly the original 'preview program' one). I'll have lots of other versions of Windows around but hasn't everyone? :)

I've recently set up an old (not vintage!) PII 450 for the workshop using GAG to boot into Win2k, MSDOS 6.22 and Xubuntu 8.10, all on separate drives. A nice setup, although Xubuntu refuses to boot at the moment.

I was inspired by this forum - something to recover data and create images from the tonnes of 5.25" floppies and QIC40 tapes lying around at home!
 
Geez, here I thought that I was a "OS Freak". Granted, I am more into installing them and trying to get them to work, like the now dreaded BeOS. Anyway, looks like I have tons of company. Very glad to see people are collecting all the OS/2 stuff. It is very clear that eComStation is doomed to fail, with no kernel source code available. When they got to RC6 (yep, release can. #6) I quit sending them money for renewals.
 
I don't got too much non-PC stuff, but I do got a lot:

Original Disks and Manual:
PC DOS 2.1
MS DOS 5.0
MS Windows 95
MS Windows 98 SE
Venix (Don't know the version number)

Original Disks, no Manual:
MS DOS 3.2 (OEM)
MS DOS 4.01 (OEM for Commodore PCs)
MS Windows XP (OEM for Fuji Siemens PCs)
MS Windows 95
MS Windows 95 Norwegian Translation disk
MS Windows 95 (On floppy disks!)
MS Windows 98 Upgrade version (not sure if it is SE or not)

Not on original disks; stored as copies, files or disk images:
PC DOS 1.0
PC DOS 1.1
PC DOS 2.0
PC DOS 2.1
PC DOS 3.0
PC DOS 3.1
PC DOS 3.2 (Not sure if I actually got this or not)
PC DOS 3.3
PC DOS 7.1 (AKA. 2000)
MS DOS 6.00 + supplement disk
MS DOS 6.10 + supplement disk
MS DOS 6.20 + supplement disk
MS DOS 6.22 + supplement disk
MS Windows 1.01
MS Windows 1.02
MS Windows 1.03
MS Windows 1.04
MS Windows 2.03
MS Windows 2.1 (286)
MS Windows 2.1 (386)
MS Windows 3.0
MS Windows 3.1
MS Windows 3.11 FWG
MS Windows 3.11 FWG (Norwegian)

Installed on hard drives, does not got the installation files:
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

I think that was most of my list. I'm still not sure on some of them, but that's only a few (three to be spesiffic).
 
i have lots of OSs on CD ROM and one on ORIGINAL floppy disks...

heres the list:

---MS-DOS---
IBM DOS 5.02 (720KB floppy disks, original)

---Windows---
Windows 95 Upgrade
Windows 95
Windows 95 With USB support
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000
Windows NT 4.0 Server and workstation
Windows XP SP1 (Dell OEM, works on any PC)
Windows XP SP2 (again, Dell OEM)
Windows FLP
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit as i have no 64 computers)

---Linux---
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
SuSE 9.3 PRO (I got given these discs)
Fedora Core 1 (Red Hat)
Red Hat Linux (unknown version)
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Puppy Linux 4
 
I'm actually not sure what all I have anymore. I have a good amount of media, but probably lost some of the licenses along the way.

I know I have but haven't glanced at to remember all exact versions:
DOS 4.x
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95osr1
Windows 95osr2
Windows 98
Windows 98se
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000pro
Windows XP (OEM copies only)

OS/2 3 Server
OS/2 4 Warp
(copy of Ecomstation to try out that didn't fix the problems I had with os/2 4)

Solaris 6, 7, 8, 9
Irix (6.4??)
AIX (can't remember version and don't have the gear to run it up)
HP-UX somethin

Oh, ironically I left out the on-topic OSes lol.. so yeah I guess I have a few vintage OSes like CP/M for a few systems, OS-9, Xenix for the Model II,12/16 (not sure which), I think I have Geos for C128 somewhere atleast the boxes indicate I might.

Ok I dunno I'm stoppin. Anyway yeah I have a lot of OSes up and running and/or virtualized that I used to play with a lot more than I do now. Actually Netware was another but I never got too far in that since the fun factor quickly wore off. "Wow.. a few fake users.. um.. ..and file sharing.. hm.. "

I have an older copy of Windows on 5.25" for Zenith that I haven't checked out but from the label I can't tell what version it is.
 
Bungo Pony said:
Does anyone else (like me) have a collection of OSes installed on hard drives? I don't bother with virtual machines, I find it just easier (and more drive space efficient) to recycle old hard drives and install OSes on each of them.
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Sorry, but I have to ask :)
How is it more drive space efficient to have the OSes installed on seperate drives than on a virtual machine? If it's because you want to be able to access the same data with them, at least in VMWare you can add physical drives to a VM.
So you could have a different boot drive for every OS, and add the same secundary physical drive to all of them.

I know it's not the same thing running things in a VM, but I just thought that drive space efficiency was kind of a weird argument for not using them :)
 
I tend to only keep operating systems I plan to use on a particular machine or machines in my collection.

MS-DOS 2.11 For Tandy 1000
MS-DOS 3.30
MS-DOS 5.00
DR-DOS 6.00
MS-DOS 6.22
Windows 1.01
Windows 2.03
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98 SE
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows XP Professional

Slackware Linux 96'
RedHat Linux 6.1 "Cartman"
Fedora Core 8.0
Ubuntu 8 32 and 64-Bit

IBM OS/2 2.0
IBM Os/2 2.1
IBM Os/2 Warp 4

Mad's Computer Who's Who of what's Running What

XT = DOS 6.22
Tandy = DOS 2.11/DOS 3.30
GEM 286 = DOS 6.22/Win101/Win203/Win31
CAT 486 = DOS 6.22/WFWG311
Flight = Windows 98 SE
Everex = Windows XP Home
Main PC = Windows XP Pro

The rest are goofed around with in Virtual PC 2007 off and on.
 
snq said:
Sorry, but I have to ask :)
How is it more drive space efficient to have the OSes installed on seperate drives than on a virtual machine?
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I don't know about drive efficiency, but I don't have any machines fast enough, or with enough RAM to run a virtual Linux install on. Well, it runs, but not well. I tried. It was slower than TAMU linux 0.99 on my 386sx.

Oh the other hand, I have several 1.0 to 1.8GHz machines with 256MB of RAM and a stash of over 40 IDE hard drives laying around. Swapping Hard drives takes less time than waiting for the VM to load.

With a 4-port KVM switch I have multiple useable machines networked and running. Takes a bit more power though.
 
Lets see...


  • IBM DOS 5
  • Windows 3.0
  • Windows 3.1
  • Windows 95
  • Windows NT Workstation V.4
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server 2000 (Can't remember the version)
  • Windows XP Home
  • Windows XP Pro
  • Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
  • Windows Vista Beta and RC (Official Media)
  • Windows Vista Home Premium x86
  • Windows Vista Home Premium x64
  • Windows Server 2008 Trial
  • Sun Solaris 10 (official media kit)

The Server 08 thing was a download from MS themselves, its a full ISO that works for like 6 or so months if you rearm. Just played with it a bit to see how much it's changed over the years, the last Windows server I used seriously was whatever my copy of 2000 is. In late 2006 I migrated over to Linux and currently have no servers running anymore but when the need for a file server arises it'll be running FreeBSD.

The Solaris thing was an impulse purchase because I have a bad habit of that and did indeed run a web server for a very short time. Somewhere I have a COA for DOS 4 that I was going to have framed but I lost track of it but I never had the media, just the COA and manual. Windows 3.0 is on 3.5 and 5.25 disks and I'm pretty sure 3.1 is only 5.25 (official disks anyway) And come to think of it, I MIGHT have DOS 4 on 5.25 if I looked hard enough.
 
I'll have to double check but in a nutshell:

-Irix 4.0.5
-Irix 5.3
-Irix 6.5.0 (and .8 and .15 and .29)
-NeXTSTEP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 (with developer CD's as well)
-MacOS 6, 7, 8, and 9 (with numerous sub versions)
-Solaris 10
-Solaris 2
-SunOS 4.1.4
-Tru64 Unix 5.1
-Linux (MANY versions and incarnations)
-GRiD-OS
-Dos 2.0
-Dos 3.0
-Dos 5
-PC DOS 5
-Dos 6 (with several sub versions)
-OS/2 2.1
-AIX 1.3
-AIX 5.? (gotta check some time)
-A/UX 1.1 (tape currently attempting to be repaired....damn pinch roller....)
-A/UX 3.1
-Windows 1.01
-Windows 2.1
-Windows 3.1
-Windows 3.11 Workgroups
-Windows 95
-Windows NT 4 Workstation
-Windows 98 (and 98se)
-Windows ME (shrinkwrapped for logical reasons)
-Windows 2000 (server and Professional)
-Windows XP (home and Professional)
-Windows FLP
-Windows 7 beta

I know I'm probably forgetting one or two.
 
Next,
lol I was waiting for your post ;-) What's Grid-OS? A/UX = Apple Unix or Amiga Unix? (pretty sure it's Apple, but I forget what Amigas's unix was).

Per:
I'd never even heard of Venix. How'd you end up picking that one up?

- John
 
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