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
> >
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> > 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
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
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