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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: [WayBack] 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!…

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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!…”

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    thaddy said

    2018/01/27 at 14:51

    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 ;)

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      jpluimers said

      2018/01/29 at 11:41

      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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