Hmmmmmmm 
We are still running dos!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 26 August 2010 03:27
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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