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  • Re: Cool things to run on Win 3.1 running on a 286

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to AKAcastor on Sun Apr 28 09:24:00 2024
    AKAcastor wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

    You're the guy that stuck a fork in the flying toaster? ;)

    No, I had the toaster on top of my file server.

    Those were fun times - Berkeley Systems had a slide going between
    floors and a toaster museum in the lobby. We were a block away from the
    first Peet's coffee store, and we probably went through 20 pounds a
    week.

    My server room shared space with the QA room. My main file server
    crashed and I had to run disk utilities on it which took hours. On the
    other side of the room, we were beta-testing Star Trek: The Screen
    Saver on a couple of dozen PCs, and I got to hear a couple of dozen
    copies of AD, tribbles shrilling, transporter sounds and the theme song
    in my head for the next couple of days. And, "Fascinating...".



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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to kirkspragg on Mon Apr 29 10:45:00 2024
    The DOS version of works was actually pretty functional. I remember moving to the windows version some time later and it not being quite as good for some reason... but that is so long ago that I can't remember why!

    Didn't know there was a DOS version to be honest. Only used the windoze version, I found it reminiscent of using Appleworks. I seem to recall a time where there was a break between Works being obsoleted and Office arriving
    where all the applications were seperate entities.. one of the reasons we
    stuck with works until Office refused to import the documents.

    Spec


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  • From kirkspragg@21:2/150 to Spectre on Sun Apr 28 21:25:43 2024
    Didn't know there was a DOS version to be honest. Only used the windoze version, I found it reminiscent of using Appleworks. I seem to recall a time where there was a break between Works being obsoleted and Office arriving where all the applications were seperate entities.. one of the reasons we stuck with works until Office refused to import the documents.

    I believe there were several dos versions & even a version for Microsofts brief foray in the unix wold Xenix - so I guess Xenix did get some love from them. I do remember the lack of interoperability with office being a real
    pain though.

    ... The wages of sin are Death, but the work's pretty good!

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