A T43 running FreeDOS sounds like a good writing machine. On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:53:50PM +0100, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote: > I've installed freedos because I'm writing my second novel, but I'm easily > distracted, so I wanted a machine with a decent word processor, > (Wordperfect 5.1) and no internet access or games to distract me. I have > deleted the games folder, but accidentally installed MS Word 5, which will > do the job. > > It also means I get to give my IBM Thinkpad T43 a second life, which is > nice. 😁 > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 22:47 Christopher Evans via Freedos-user, < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Well, I installed dosemu on my Linux machine, so I could run older dos > > games like doom and descent as well as work on dos c sources. > > > > > > > > -Chris > > > > Intelligencia Computer Consulting > > > > An open-source and computer help company > > > > http://icctechconsult.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < > > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:46 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user > >> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I'm following this list and find it very interesting. I found it when I > >> > was trying to prepare myself to help a friend whose business in built > >> > around a DOS app. It's clear that many/most/all? have access to other > >> > computers and OSes. This would be obvious if only because one needs > >> > access to the internet even if only to get this list. This has made me > >> > curious. > >> > > >> > What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro > >> > games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or > >> > something else? > >> > > >> > >> > >> Hi Dan > >> > >> We ran a survey several years ago, and then last year, to answer > >> exactly that question: How are people using FreeDOS? > >> > >> Several years ago (around 2014?) we found people were running FreeDOS > >> for 3 or 4 main use cases: > >> > >> 1. To play classic DOS games > >> 2. To run legacy DOS applications > >> 3. To support/develop embedded systems > >> > >> and sometimes 4. To install firmware updates on certain motherboards > >> > >> I recall that the legacy DOS software was often in a business setting, > >> such as organizations that needed to retrieve information from an old > >> DOS application. You discover that some data is locked up in some data > >> files that are only accessible by the program that wrote the data. So > >> you find the software (or download it if you don't have it), then > >> install FreeDOS + the application, and "save as" the data to some > >> format that you can use. > >> > >> We did this when I served as CIO for a university. One of the faculty > >> found some old floppies with old research data. They wanted to get the > >> data back (I think to write a paper that referenced the historical > >> data). We installed FreeDOS on a spare PC that had a floppy drive, > >> found the original program on a DOS apps archive site, installed that, > >> and loaded the data. That program could also dump the data into a > >> plain text file (similar to CSV) which the faculty researcher could > >> load into a spreadsheet to do further analysis. > >> > >> More recently, we found that people were running FreeDOS for (mostly) > >> 3 main uses: > >> > >> 1. To play classic DOS games > >> 2. To run legacy DOS applications > >> 3. To develop new DOS programs > >> > >> For #3, I think that mostly represented FreeDOS developers responding > >> to the survey. > >> > >> The survey had a few outliers (we still see people who use FreeDOS to > >> install firmware updates, for example) but in 2022, those were pretty > >> low compared to the other 3 uses. > >> > >> > >> Jim > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Freedos-user mailing list > >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > >
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