Shadow Lord
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I generally image the disks, set the originals aside and then use the images to make disks for everyday use. This is specially true for NIB stuff I get my hands on.
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I generally image the disks, set the originals aside and then use the images to make disks for everyday use. This is specially true for NIB stuff I get my hands on.
DOS lives on!!
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About the only thing I image the originals, then only use the imaged disks are OEM operating system disks. And I do that for boxed utility programs, not regular programs.
Indeed I have. Since the beginning, and every day since. I do have a lovely binder with IBM DOS 3.3 as well as recently acquired boring shrink wrap versions of MS-DOS 6.2 and 6.22. I used to have a bunch of those nice IBM binders a long time ago, but I didn't value them then and have no idea where they went. I wish I had them now.
I've also got some not too pristine Kaypro manuals and other miscellaneous stuff. There was a NIB LOTUS 123 on a shelf in the basement, I noticed earlier. And there were some boxes of Red Hat 4.0 and 5.0 too (basically kept as ephemera and not software). So yes - I'm not completely out of the loop.
However, I don't really collect that stuff except as it's found at undefined and mysterious places. I certainly don't buy it. What I was hinting at earlier is that (outside of my original DOS) I've just used BBSs, later Simtelnet, and after that, it's been FOSS the whole way. No boxes.
I was also thinking that the words "DL, DL, and DL!", as written in the poll choices, seemed kind of loaded, and not really representative of "apt-get" or "pkg_add". Perhaps I read it wrong. Anyway, on Mars we use "make install clean".
You want to sell that DOS Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.x? I think I have four or five full retail sets, but could always use another. I still run most stuff in DOS, using Windows only when I must.
Ole Juul
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Not really. I just went and had a look and it's version 3.1. Like you, I still use DOS as well, and might want to have a legit copy of Lotus one of these days.
Understood, and thank you. I don't use version 3 and later, anyway. Version 2.x still works with Funk Software's Worksheet Utilities, and I bought a bunch of those years ago for $150 each. They still outperform anything anyone else including later versions of Lotus, can do. And they only operate in Dos. So now, I'm faced with staying on XP, in which the DOS Lotus and Funk work real well, versus upgrading to Win7 and trying to run it in XP Mode or DOSBOX or VM or Tao Computing's DOS emulator.Not really. I just went and had a look and it's version 3.1. Like you, I still use DOS as well, and might want to have a legit copy of Lotus one of these days.
So far, I've decided to stay on XP and reconfigure as dual-boot with Debian Linux, updated via Zorin Linux OS. But there's a tasty Acer 8573-9627 I might buy to try out the Win7 useability. It's compatible with Linux. DOSBOX is compatible with either Linux or Win7, as is the Tao Computing emulator.
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