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To: SeekAndFind
If you like your Windows 3.1 you can keep your Windows 3.1.

I actually have a working Windows 3.1 PC down in the basement. It's been a while since I fired it up but it's a 1993-era IBM PS/1 Model 2133 with a 486DX 33MHz processor and 8MB or RAM (upgraded from the original 2MB). Yes, that's MB, not GB!

It will boot up and I think most of my Prodigy BB files are still intact on there. Remember the Prodigy BBs? They used to have this BB manager program that would let you use the BBs offline. It would then upload your posts and download any new ones that came in. This was because Prodigy would charge something like $3.60 an hour to be online, once your 20 hours was used up.

I got a Prodigy bill over $100 one month and my wife almost divorced me over it.

100 posted on 02/02/2015 12:22:19 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Min requirements for W95 were a 486 DX (P90 Recommended) and 8 MB of RAM (12 GB Recommended)

I can only imagine how bloated W10 is and what the min spec requirements are to run it.


102 posted on 02/02/2015 12:30:09 PM PST by Rodney Dangerfield (Has any President in history sunk to such a level of self-flattery & validation-seeking?)
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