Our NEC Electra voicemail system is DOS based. Not a very large image either. The hard disk is 1.2gb, out of which maybe a hundred megabytes is used.
I have an image of it, but the bummer is that the mainboard is picky about hard disk size. I procured a 8gb PATA SSD that I thought would work in its place. But the system won't boot that drive. To make matters worse, the serial port seems jacked. You can "sorta" see some of the POST text being spit out to the terminal, but its terribly noisy. So no chance of getting into the BIOS to check drive type (it's so old it might not be using LBA for all I know) Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 95. Our voicemail system runs on OS/2. Fortunately, I have an image of the hard drive, should it ever crash. Of course, if the Dialogic boards ever die, we're up a creek. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 95. 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
