Would IE5 run under Windows 3.1? I used to browse the web with NS3 in those times...

...and surely A. Nakranistik would be using a keyboard with the accepted QWERTZ layout?

i think he's rockin the DVORAK keyboard.

If he's not, he should be.

Ive got an old computer running windows 3.11 in my basement(keep your mafia away!). I haven't bothered installing a new os. mostly because its not worth the effort... and Im lazy.

I have a box with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, Windows 95, & Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on it. Too bad it does not have an Ethernet card, or I could up the statistics. :) & of course, DOS with Arachne would probably make a new category (not entirely sure, though).

Mmmm, Arachne. :D

My Pentium 200MMX have the DOS 6.2 and nothing more else... besides 4,0Gb of Dos games...

4 gigs of dos games?! wow... -_-

I don't have any pc's running an old os, but my dad still has the floppys for Microsoft Windows 3.1. 5 disks, and they're completely useless now...

Thats nothing, I still have the disks for Windows 2.0. We never used it though, we removed Windows 2 to save disk space and just used DOS.

I used a DOS 6.22/Windows 3.1 computer regularly from 1997 to about 2001, when I got a laptop. The last time I used the Win 3.1 computer was probably somewhere in 2002 or 2003.

I had tried Windows 3.1 on my laptop (which used mainly Windows ME), just for fun. It was tricky. It didn't work with the DOS shipped with Windows ME. I couldn't run it from a bootable DOS 6.22 floppy because DOS 6.22 doesn't support FAT32.

Later, I reformatted my hard drive (for reasons not necessarily having to do with getting Win3.1 working) and this time made two partitions, with the smaller one having FAT16. Then I got the idea of trying Win3.1 again. I was able to boot DOS 6.22 and install Windows 3.1 on the FAT16 partition. It was entertaining that Setup detected an "older" version of Windows (Windows ME) and offered to "upgrade" it. I just told it to install into a different directory instead. :-)

It started up in something around 6 or so seconds. Wow, computers sure have gotten faster since the Windows 3.1 days! It wasn't very useful, though. I couldn't get it to use anything better than 16-color 640x480, even though my graphics card was capable of it.

(Meanwhile, my laptop died about three years ago and now I've been using Linux.)

Ah, you found the light.

Yep. I actually played with Linux some when I had my laptop, but never could get everything working right. After it quit working, I eventually found a desktop computer and tried a newer Linux distribution on it and had a lot more luck. Now I use it all the time. I wish I had a new computer, though; this one's rather slow.

My school still uses a couple computers that have 2.1! Bleach.

I've always wondered about Windows 1.x and 2.x. All I know about them were a few screenshots and an article I found on a website some time ago.

i have the "except in nebraska" video saved on my desktop :)

(see link)

Well... All I can think is that's kind of... pathetic. ;-)

That also reminded me why I pratically never watch TV commercials anymore.

Do you have the link to that article on 2.x and 3.x? I'm curious too.

My windows 3.11 machine died a yaer and a half ago. It never knew the glory of the internet. However, for some unknown reason, my school library has 4 3.11 machines. I go there and use them whenever I feel nostalgic.

-W-

Ah, I reamember my winows 3.1 computer.... I always hated it! But mine also died and is buried in the back yard. All is well.

Are you serious, you actually buried your PC? But how then are you gonna cannibalize parts from it? :)

But..but...getting the good memory, logic, and processor chips out of old devices is the *only* thing to do with them!

And if you care about such things, that's an major enviromental hazard...

I'm sure he put it in a good coffin.

The Windows 3.1 computer I used from 1997 to 2001 had a BIOS date of 1991, IIRC (which suggests that the computer was at least 6-10 years old), and it was still working. The thing I hated the most was that I never had enough hard disk space. That thing had a whopping 40 MB hard drive. Must have been considered HUGE back when it was manufactured.

Oddly, I actually quit using that computer before it died. The only hardware that failed was the 3.5" floppy drive, and that was replaced easily. (Unless you include the 5 1/4" floppy drive, which never worked anyway.) Last time I ever saw it, the keyboard wasn't working, though. I don't know if the keybaord failed or the keyboard port, but I never found out since I didn't care (it was ready for the junk heap by that time).