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DADoES

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Anybody collect old software packages? Access Version 1.0. Word. MSMoney 2.0. Quicken. Great Plains Accounting still shrinkwrapped 5.25" diskettes, system manager, GL, PR, AP, PR. Quattro Pro. Various others. I can check through the packages if anyone is interested. Some are retail packages, others are dealer copies "not for resale." Also have a box of 3.5" diskettes. Install for WordPerfect 6, Windows 3.1/3.11, others.
 
Cory, are you looking?

For a while I had quite a bundle of old MS-DOS and Windows 3.0+ software for my vintage computers...Works 1.05, Windows 1.01 (from 1985!) among them. Sold the majority of it on eBay along with my remaining computers (IBM 5150, "Austin" brand 486DX, 1987 IBM PS/2). Some of the vintage games I kept, as I could still use them on here in XP, believe it or not.
 
I got audited a while back

By the tax office. One of the things they wanted to see was the "updateable" version which I had used to update from...
Word 6 to Word 6 for NT
Word 6 for NT to Office 95
Office 95 to Office 97
Office 97 to Office 2000
Office 2000 to Office XP

NT 3.51 to NT4.00
NT 4.00 Server to 2000
2000 to XP Home...

I really wish I were joking or exaggerating...
I have software files going back to MSDOS 5...which I used to update to 6.0...which I used for 6.2...

Not that we have any serious problems here in Germany or such...

On another note, I notice that some software is just plain good - ClarisWorks 3.x was outstanding, stable and reason enough (and alone, sigh) to buy an Apple. Same for Filemaker Pro and Microsoft's Fox.

Anybody remember GeoWorks?
 
I'm not saying that I collect software. I'm saying that I have all this stuff to be disposed. We're cleaning up the ISP office and found it, apparently left from when the owner ran a computer store (until December 1998). Also TONS of cables and cords, a few junk computers and 15" & 17" monitors (anybody want a 350 Mhz Pentium with 64 MB RAM?, LOL) I found a used equipment broker for the Cisco stuff but they don't pay but pennies on the original $. Even our servers and workstations that were running until two weeks ago, nobody seems to want. Except maybe the dual 3 Ghz Xeon server, but there's no market for used servers here. Dial-up is dead, so nobody wants our Nortel 56K/ISDN dial-up server either, the darn thing cost well over $130K.
 
I saw GeoWorks on an old HP computer once. I thought it was Windows 3.1! The similarity is remarkable. I thought that Microsoft had purchased GeoWorks and just converted it into Windows 3.1.
Some of the newer software I just don't like. I am still using Word 97. I just think the interface is easier to use than the newer versions.
I tend not to upgrade anything on my computer until something happens where I need to upgrade. I think if it hadn't been for the Internet a lot of people would still be running 486 machines. I think the advent of the Internet is what drove Pentium sales. Well, then again there is the need for power for people who are heavily into graphic design.
 
Glenn
drop me a note.. I am looking for a cheap (or maybe free) computer that will run on Windows 95 or 98.... Need it to run one old accounting program that won't run above windows 98. Also looking for an old home plan programes, i would love to find Cheif Arcitect..
 
All the old software has been tossed out. Had an "open house" sale at the office, only two lookers came. One took four bum APC battery units (which can be traded-in to APC for a discount on new stuff), a working battery unit, and a for-free 350 Mhz computer. The other wants a battery unit and computer (undecided on which). There are two for-free 350 Mhz computers left both loaded with Win2K Pro, but one with only 64 MB RAM, the other with 128 MB. There's a dual 550 Mhz server with 18 GB RAID, a dual 700 Mhz server with 18 GB RAID, a 900 Mhz workstation, a 1 Ghz 1 GB server with 36 GB RAID (one bum drive awaiting a replacement that I've ordered at my own expense), and a 3 Ghz 1 GB server with 36 GB RAID that probably has a buyer. An APC 2200 battery unit that's 6 or 7 years old, and several 1500 units 2/3/4 years old. The 1 Ghz server I'll have to keep for a while in case access to the customer billing data is needed. Any of the rest of it that nobody wants on Monday will either go to me (along with my own workstation) for parting-out or use or storage, or be tossed out (the 350 Mhz computers, a dual 400 Mhz server with one bad CPU), 15" and 17" CRTs, BOXES of cables & power cords & speakers & keyboards). I already have five extra computers stashed at the house in various states of working or not.
 

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