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Old 11-29-2016, 08:48 PM
 
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scored another classic, a noname computer running windows 3.0 for $15.a whopping 120M hard drive a few megs of ram, what is odd is the processor has a fan on it and its a AMD k5 which came out in 1996.whats a windows 3.0 computer doing with a 1996 processor ,I dont know.
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Old 11-30-2016, 03:47 AM
 
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Maybe it was modified......

I dont know much about Win3.x other than its very confusing to me!!!!!


Is Win3.x able to be put online john?? (Im sorry if I seem ignorant,I dont know much about Windows before 95)
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Old 11-30-2016, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Hoarder....

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Old 11-30-2016, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Log "cabin" west of Bangor
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scored another classic, a noname computer running windows 3.0 for $15.a whopping 120M hard drive a few megs of ram, what is odd is the processor has a fan on it and its a AMD k5 which came out in 1996.whats a windows 3.0 computer doing with a 1996 processor ,I dont know.
Nothing odd about it, I have several. Those were the good old days, and with some of the newer processors Dos/Win3.x(x) would fly and you could get sub-10sec boot times if you didn't make the jump to Win95. OS/2 Warp ran pretty good on them too. I still have a machine boots Dos/win3.1(1), Win95, Warp and Turbo Linux...somewhere around here...
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Old 11-30-2016, 07:41 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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So ... what do you do with it besides heat the house? Play SkiFree or Tetris on it?
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Old 12-04-2016, 10:47 PM
 
Location: Log "cabin" west of Bangor
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Hey, it runs WordPerfect and Lotus SmartSuite just fine. I don't need the latest and 'greatest' MS Office.
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Old 12-05-2016, 08:41 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Too bad you won't be able to print those documents you wrote in WP.
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Old 12-07-2016, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Log "cabin" west of Bangor
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Too bad you won't be able to print those documents you wrote in WP.
LOL, trust me, I have a stack of printers, too...all the way back to an Okidata ML80 dot matrix. I might even still have a Qume daisy-wheel around here somewhere too.

I can print anything I want.
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Old 12-12-2016, 07:53 PM
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scored another classic, a noname computer running windows 3.0 for $15
That's nothing. I scored a box of leftover junk mail from the 1980's, for free. And none of it is even opened. Better luck next time.
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Old 12-13-2016, 05:11 PM
 
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obviously you cant do anything with a dinosaur like this I bought it because my first computer over 20 years ago was a win3.0 so this was nice walk down memory lane.
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