24 Mar
1998
24 Mar
'98
10:57 a.m.
Sorry, but this is just a thought... if HP could give Win 95 LICENCES, and
you could find a 3.5" copy of Windows 95 (and the HP's have 8MB RAM), you
could run Windows 95 fine. I'm running it on my DX/50 here.
Hope that this helps,
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Kip Crosby <engine(a)chac.org>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 7:45 PM
Subject: HP Win 3.1 -- off topic, but need help
Yesterday I did the Silicon Valley Elderhostel comp.
hist. lecture, and in
the Q&A afterwards, a woman from one of the gold rush ~ghost towns in the
Sierra said that her school had been given two HP Vectra 486's, but with no
OS's. HP has been forced to follow MS' ultimatum (who but MS could or
would step on HP?) and can only supply her with Win95, which these boxes
don't have the horsepower for, on CD, but.... no CD drives either. She
badly needs HP Vectra OEM Windows 3.1(1) on 3.5" floppies, and HP's
response to her is basically "We're only allowed to tell you that that
never existed."
Can anybody help with a copy? TVMIA --
__________________________________________
Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
24 Mar
24 Mar
6:23 a.m.
Sorry, but this is just a thought... if HP could give
Win 95 LICENCES, and
you could find a 3.5" copy of Windows 95 (and the HP's have 8MB RAM), you
could run Windows 95 fine. I'm running it on my DX/50 here.
Hope that this helps,
Once again, this is foolish to try to run win95 on 8mb. I did and
get Very SLOW performance even on 486sx 33 and beating trying to
killing the hd and crashing is common. Hated that royally. Be kind
and find a way to get win 3.11 WFW. These 3.x is best for older 386
and 486 all with 8mb~16mb, even for older pentium w/ 8mb and older
notebooks.
Really, win95sux really LIKES to run in more than 16mb~24mb~greater
ram and POWERFUL CPU like dx4 series or better. From that gives you
more reliablity and more crash-proofing.
FWIW.
Jason D.
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Kip Crosby <engine(a)chac.org>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 7:45 PM
Subject: HP Win 3.1 -- off topic, but need help
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
Yesterday I did the Silicon Valley Elderhostel
comp. hist. lecture, and in
the Q&A afterwards, a woman from one of the gold rush ~ghost towns in the
Sierra said that her school had been given two HP Vectra 486's, but with no
OS's. HP has been forced to follow MS' ultimatum (who but MS could or
would step on HP?) and can only supply her with Win95, which these boxes
don't have the horsepower for, on CD, but.... no CD drives either. She
badly needs HP Vectra OEM Windows 3.1(1) on 3.5" floppies, and HP's
response to her is basically "We're only allowed to tell you that that
never existed."
Can anybody help with a copy? TVMIA --
__________________________________________
Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
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