5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
12:18 p.m.
At 10:41 AM 3/5/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
etc., etc., and before you know it we are zipping down
the mountainside at
70MPH towards a mailing list that has no former resemblance to its title,
the CLASSIC COMPUTERS mailing list. THERE IS NOTHING CLASSIC ABOUT MAKING
WINDOWS XP RUN ON YOUR LAPTOP AND NOR WILL IT SUBJECTIVELY BE FOR DOZENS
OF YEARS!
Maybe there's a need for a "vintage Windows" mailing list. (And in
that magical wish-fulfillment aspect of the Web, I bet there's a dozen
sites like that.) I do think there is a need for ancient Windows
discussion. It doesn't need to be here, of course. It is hard to
reconstruct a working late-DOS, early Windows environment.
I can see how a little Windows discussion might take place here, though,
as people try to get emulators running under the Windows of the day,
as well as the gizmos that go along with it (like USB serial adapters, etc.)
- John