A functioning copy of windows 3.1 still in use...

[guitarguy1980.livejournal.com]

I just got off the phone with one of my tire retreading plants out in bumfuck wherever. When he called up with his problem with his handhelds, and I asked what version of windows he was running, I expected to hear 2000 or XP...

He comes back with: Windows 3.1.

3.1.

I haven't seen a copy of 3.1 functioning in over a decade. Wow. Much less, running a business on it.

I thought it was bad when I came across a copy of 98SE out there running a retread shop, but this takes the cake.

I thought you all would enjoy that.

Comments

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

on a handheld? i didn't know they had handhelds back then.

[katyism.livejournal.com]

perhaps he's using 3.1 on the pc that he wants to sync his handhelds with.

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

ouch

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

Wow. How does he do any networking with that?

[jecook]

ow.ow.ow.ow.ow.ow.

One of the things I was involved in when I was working for [credit union] back in 97-99 was the windows 95 conversion corporate wide. I still remember having to deal with some of the 3.1 machines in our records department that had some really funky image software on them... ::shudder::

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

hey! 98SE is a lot better then the faux linux millenium crap that has come out lately.

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

Win 3.1 still runs on one of our data acquisition machines. No, it is not on a network. The floppy is its only contact with the outside world.

Off topic but...

[crankyholly.livejournal.com]

Two hundred and forty dollars worth of pudding...

Awwwww - yeah.

Was off topic, now just group whoring ;-)

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

You ought to see the_state.

[back on-topic]

I forgot some of our old DOS 6.22 386s at the Observatory. :-D

[unixwiz.livejournal.com]

Up until a few years ago, I actually still had a working copy of Windows 286. For those of you that do not know what this was, here is a link:

http://internet.ls-la.net/ms-evolution/windows-286/

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

My folks got one of those with their Amstrad clone, way back when. I installed it, tried using it for a bit, then went back to DOS 3.3.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

How embarrassing to admit that *I* had a PC with that loaded. Back in the day, indeed.

[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaang LOL

[axessdenyd.livejournal.com]

SE isn't old at all!

Well.

We'd see it all the time at my shop, anyway.

[madd-trinity.livejournal.com]

3.1. LOL

That's pretty sad.

[jjjiii]

Still uing 95 at work on a few workstations.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the law enforcement agency I worked at until recently is still a primarily Win9x shop. Much W95 there, Mostly W98. And they still have a few laptops running Win3.1.

It was...f'ugly. And I haven't even mentioned the NT4 production servers....

[110billion.livejournal.com]

My first 'pc' was a Win 3.1 machine. It worked... slowly.

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

Technically that was my first PC....of course most of the time I used DOS 6.2 to play games :P

[cmdrproteus.livejournal.com]

I want to say that's old, but I'm sure someone will say that someone somewhere is running Windows 2.0 for god knows what reason.

And to think I bitched that some of our workstations ran Windows 95 (they don't now, thankfully, although trying to cram XP in a P3-450 with 128mb can be painful x_x )

[brotherflounder]

Or even worse, Windows ME. *shudder*

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Dude, there's Xenix machines still croaking. And I'm talking MS Xenix, not SCO.

[brotherflounder]

I don't suppose there's a chance he got confused and meant 2000 w/ SP3?

Probably not.

[codedigital.livejournal.com]

3.1 is still pretty prevelant, more so 3.11

Win98SE is still VERY widely used. I see it all the time.

[sketchydave.livejournal.com]

I actually have an old notebook at work that I set up as a dual-boot Win95 / Win 2000 machine.

It exists soley for the purpose of testing out web pages. If its at all legible on a Win95 machine I know its acceptible for everything else. I work at a hospital so often times they want everything accessible to everyone no matter what.

[mr-broli.livejournal.com]

LOL at least he didn't need to install the .NET Framework on it...

[c0c0c0.livejournal.com]

I have a laptop that still works that has 3.11 for workgroups on it. I also have Dos and Windows 3.11 on floppy in the original pristine packaging.