Good God. I've only got eight 2003 R2 systems left to upgrade, and three XP
workstations.

On 26 August 2010 14:55, Holstrom, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> Our old phone system still runs on DOS. I've been sweating this for
> years...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:27 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Windows 95.
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> I still have one dinosaur running an app on W9x that won't run on
> NT-or-newer.
> >
> > Can this be virtualized somehow or other, or are you scavenging eBay
> > even now for parts?
>
>   Until a few months ago, we had a measurement system in production that
> was still running Win 3.x.  It had some custom interface card and software,
> the origin of which had been lost in the mists of time.
> Card was ISA; system didn't work under anything newer than 3.x.  Years ago
> I saw what was coming and started squirreling away spare parts for that
> system, as we retried old computers.  It got to the point where I had
> literally replaced every single part (mobo, PSU, VGA, HDD) at least once due
> to failures.
>
>  Then a few months ago the interface board died.  I can't say I was sad.
>
>  (We're now running a new system with new software and COTS hardware.)
>
> -- Ben
>
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>


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the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able
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