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foone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26

This is tool funny, especially how he got it on the machine: [WayBackfoone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…

–jeroen

 

 

 

 

2 Responses to “foone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…”

  1. thaddy's avatar

    thaddy said

    Jeroen, although this is possible to install DOS 6.2.2. on fast hardware doesn’t mean we can use TurboPascal 7 on it (w/o patch)… If you can solve this riddle , youŕe old school indeed ;)

    • jpluimers's avatar

      jpluimers said

      That’s because of the CRT unit (initialisation of the timing). Ray Konopka was the first to bring that to my attention somewhere around 1995, so I wrote a fix for him but lost track where I put that fix (:

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