Windows 11

Started by Steve J, 24 June 2021, 07:30:53 PM

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jimduncanuk

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 25 June 2021, 03:47:34 PM
Just checked my superfast 18 month old PC and guess what?

It won't run Windows 11.

Something to file under (worry about in 2025 if I am still alive then).


Just tweaked the BIOS and now it CAN run Windows 11. Oh joy!

However my old old PC, 9 years old, which just runs Windows 10 and no more will fail to run Windows 11. Shame.
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

I remember a mate being a Windows 95 beta tester...  :o
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jimduncanuk

Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 25 June 2021, 08:20:44 PM
I remember a mate being a Windows 95 beta tester...  :o

Yeah, we did all that many years ago. We also designed and produced their first mail server software.
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Orcs

Windows 10 was still a free upgrade a year ago,  they just wanted people to use it.

BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

Quote from: Orcs on 25 June 2021, 09:26:18 PM
Windows 10 was still a free upgrade a year ago,  they just wanted people to use it.

BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!

No we need paper tape and punch cards. Tape - 1/2" reel to reel.
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Raider4

Quote from: Orcs on 25 June 2021, 09:26:18 PM
BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!

I have a shrink-wrapped copy of DOS 6.2 - manual, 3.5" disks, licence - sitting on a bookshelf somewhere. Grabbed it when they were emptying the storage cupboards at work.

I also have (opened) copies of Windows 3.0 and 3.1.

And Doom v.1.666. And a Compuserve "sign-up" disk.

Don't know why I keep these things? Certainly don't have anything with a disk drive to run them on.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

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steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 June 2021, 06:36:16 AM
No we need paper tape and punch cards. Tape - 1/2" reel to reel.

Say what you like about punched cards.
You could drop them and not worry about a cracked screen.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

But as they found out at the Oxford computer in Rectory Road in the 60s, it doesn't like a bag of crisps and a bottle of Newcastle Brown.
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Lord Kermit of Birkenhead

They also make good book marks
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Ithoriel

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 June 2021, 11:39:45 AM
They also make good book marks

Good for writing shopping list on too.

My supply has long since run out.
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jimduncanuk

Quote from: Ithoriel on 26 June 2021, 11:46:26 AM
Good for writing shopping list on too.

My supply has long since run out.

I still have a punched card metal tray which I keep tools in.
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Dave Fielder

After the 31st Dec 2024 apocalypse we won't be needing Windows 11, we will be lucky to still have windows!!   :o
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Heedless Horseman

Quote from: Dave Fielder on 29 June 2021, 02:25:08 PM
After the 31st Dec 2024 apocalypse we won't be needing Windows 11, we will be lucky to still have windows!!   :o

Um...which one is this? No Google answer!  :o
Only threw out Ma's stockpile of cans for 'The Millennium Bug' last year!  :o ;D
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steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 30 June 2021, 04:25:49 AM
Um...which one is this? No Google answer!  :o
Only threw out Ma's stockpile of cans for 'The Millennium Bug' last year!  :o ;D

That (if I remember correctly) is when your 32 bit clock runs out of "seconds past 00:00 Jan 1st 1970".
Most* computer clocks now hold a 64 bit number, and that covers us for the next half-trillion years.

* You'll find out on the day, but anything installed in the last 10 years ought to be 64 bit.