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Bill Gates introducing Windows 3.1 (video 60s)
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoWhat I find funny is that in the next video recommended to me [0] Gates demonstrates something we used to do daily in the 90s but the indistry still hasn't figured out how to do it properly with web technologies. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_UDQnboRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_UDQnboRw
- gabrielsroka 6y agoThis came up just recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24435217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24435217 > I absolutely love Visual Basic and am trying to make a Javascript version at appshare.co See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21734845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21734845
- jiripospisil 6y agoOne of the computers at my father's job is still running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's a prebuilt from Escom with Intel 486, 256MB disk, not sure about RAM, and combined with HP Deskjet 510 printer. The only thing it needs from time to time is to replace the CMOS battery and unclog the ink cartridge (there's a bottle of liquor right next to the printer). It's used almost daily and has outlived several generations of other PCs in the office.
- bfieidhbrjr 6y agoHow is the disk still spinning?
- dan_hawkins 6y agoIf it's never powered down then it should be fine. I've seen a computer in telecom center with a disk spinning for almost 20 years. One day power failure occurred and UPS failed to kick in, disk stopped and when the power came back it failed to spin up again.