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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (82510)	7/12/2013 1:00:17 PM
From: Breccia	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110631

What age/OS do u need. I am "cleaning out my old cpus from late 80's to 2002. ( 3 of them each of a different age) I am about to wipe one HDD but have not done that yet. Do you really want to go there ? Use private reply if your interested

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (82510)	7/12/2013 1:41:21 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 110631

My first job out of college in 1982 was as a commissioned salesperson at Rainbow Computer in New Haven, CT. Back then there were no courses in PCs nor even any books. After being repeatedly being told there was no decision yet on my application, I literally walked in one day and said "hey, I working here; don't pay me a penny unless I sell something." Anyhow, it was like a hobbyist club in those days, and everyone seemed to like our store because we were knowledgeable. I accumulated on 5 1/4" floppy every single game out there. I still have a shoebox full of all of these games somewhere. Maybe I should find a way to transfer them to a DVD? I have no clue if any would still run, but at least I would have preserved them! Surely someone on the net someone must have done such a project? If not, I guess I'll buy and external floppy and you and I can combine our efforts? - Jeff

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (82510)	7/13/2013 3:03:16 AM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By Gottfried Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Re Old PC's. If your games etc run on Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later, you can just build a virtual machine and run all your old software on VM player. No need to buy old bulky PC's that take up office space. You would need a installation disk for your old OS to get started. Everything else is free. You also need about 4GB of RAM or more. You need lots of RAM to run several machines at once. I did want to build a Win 95 machine but I only have win 95 upgrade disk not an original installllation disk, so I cant get it to go yet. My oldest machine I use is win 2k. The new Windows 8.1 runs on it just fine, as does ubuntu. Win 8.1