3 Dec
1999
3 Dec
'99
3:17 p.m.
> On a
philosophical side, what do you guys do, preserve both hardware
> and original software or upgrade the software? On my 3100/M38 I took
> out the original RZ24 with 5.?, put an old IBM disk and installed 7.2.
My view is that I'd never overwrite an original distribution kit -- I'd
preserve it and probably back it up. But I may well install a newer
version of the OS (given suitable licenses) on the machine. I'd attempt
to back up what was already there first, though. That's because I _use_
these old machines. For a museum exhibit, as you said, you want to have
contemporary software.