i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started doing spooky stuff recently about a year
ago. i been so busy with this stuff i also keep forgetting about the bbs i
need to check in often xD

I am needing to talk to paulie to change my username from mary4 to something else. please dm me Paulie420 on discord

also hi everyone!!! :3 286 gang!

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i am posting this on my os/2 os
install on my 286 xD it is at
25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is
os/2 1.3.... i got this thing
online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started
doing spooky stuff recently about
a year
ago. i been so busy with this
stuff i also keep forgetting about
the bbs i
need to check in often xD

Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it working.

What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it just around the corner?


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mary4 wrote to All <=-

i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz
with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD kinda spooky if you ask me speaking of spooky. I've started doing
spooky stuff recently about a year ago. i been so busy with this stuff
i also keep forgetting about the bbs i need to check in often xD

I started my IT career out running OS/2 1.3 on a 386 with 8 mb of RAM.
Amazing what you could do with it compared to other OSes of the time. I
could connect to a BBS, share files over a LAN and connect to an AS/400
simultaneously. And, run Word and Excel for OS/2.

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.



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slacker wrote to mary4 <=-

Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it
working.

I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.



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i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started doing spooky stuff recently about a year ago. i been so busy with this stuff i also keep forgetting about the bbs i need to check in often xD

I am needing to talk to paulie to change my username from mary4 to something else. please dm me Paulie420 on discord

also hi everyone!!! :3 286 gang!

Hello and welcome! I love to see old machines back online.
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Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it working.

i am sure you can get it fixed! <3 i would look for a spot where the wire goes

sl> What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it
just around the corner?

I am an angel... it is always spooky with me my soul is an ancient angel soul and i do magic. i hope it is ok for me to say this... <3

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I started my IT career out running OS/2 1.3 on a 386 with 8 mb of RAM.
Amazing what you could do with it compared to other OSes of the time. I
could connect to a BBS, share files over a LAN and connect to an AS/400
simultaneously. And, run Word and Excel for OS/2.

NICE! PEAK COMPUTING HERE

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

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I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.

elks and tvlc is projects using the file system from minix... they are unix like operating systems for old 808x based computers


i am trying to get tlvc to work on my 286 here i posted on os/2 1.3 earlier

it is currently running FreeDOS 1.4 with some upgrades <3

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Hello and welcome! I love to see old machines back online.

yoooo
my 286 works nicely on the bbs! <3

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What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it just around the corner?

I do OCCULT stuff specifically magic...
everyday has been halloween for me for a year ...

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I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.

haha, That's great! I remember using Minix back in college. It was some sort of OS related programming course I took. I also had a copy running locally on one of my computers back home acting as a web server for a very short time. After the course ended, I swapped debian on it.


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i am sure you can get it fixed! <3 i would look for a spot where the wire goes

I've gave it a good try back when it broke. I know where one half goes but not the other. There's no real evidence of where it could have popped off. To make matters worse, there's almost no info online about it. It's a Pulstar Turbo 16. If anyone has any leads to any info related, I'd be happy to check it out. I'd love to get it working again. I've owned it since the mid 90s.



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NICE! PEAK COMPUTING HERE

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol
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mary4 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

elks and tvlc is projects using the file system from minix... they are unix like operating systems for old 808x based computers

Minix is apparently the basis for the Intel pre-boot environment on
modern PCs.

Now, I'm tempted to resurrect my MINIX server. It's horridly insecure,
though. I'd not want to put it on the net anywhere...



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Fae Empress wrote to mary4 <=-

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol

I would *love to be able to run Windows for Workgroups in a VM with
decent resolution...



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lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol

I would *love to be able to run Windows for Workgroups in a VM with
decent resolution...

From what I've read, it's a matter of bad SVGA drivers. Some 3rd party drivers should solve that, though I've never tried. I kind of like the low-res graphics for the nostalgia.
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I would *love to be able to run
Windows for Workgroups in a VM
with
decent resolution...

Not WFW in a VM but I remember back in mid 2000s at work we had WinXP SP2 computers and I copied over progman.exe from SP1 over and set the shell for my account in the registry to it so I could use Program Manager at work in XP. I always liked it back in the day on my 486 and was surprised to find out that the service pack 1 version of it still worked in XP. ...my manager wasn't too happy but I think I had it like that until I left that job.


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Re: Re: os/2 and hi!!!!!
By: Fae Empress to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Oct 01 2026 07:49:47

I would *love to be able to run Windows for Workgroups in a VM with
decent resolution...

Could try 386Box. It comes with a wide variety of graphics card drivers.
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I've gave it a good try back when it broke. I know where one half goes
but not the other. There's no real evidence of where it could have
popped off. To make matters worse, there's almost no info online about
it. It's a Pulstar Turbo 16. If anyone has any leads to any info
related, I'd be happy to check it out. I'd love to get it working again. I've owned it since the mid 90s.

ah cool i hope you can fix it becaue i never heard of that machine

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WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol

sorry mate ill stand down we all good here. to be fully honest, windows 3.1x is not as bad as the newer versions

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Minix is apparently the basis for the Intel pre-boot environment on
modern PCs.

Now, I'm tempted to resurrect my MINIX server. It's horridly insecure,
though. I'd not want to put it on the net anywhere...

oof elks and tlvc are amazing oses! :D

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xaxyiel wrote to Fae Empress <=-

sorry mate ill stand down we all good here. to be fully honest, windows 3.1x is not as bad as the newer versions

Windows 3.11 for workgroups, with the TCP/IP addon, WinG and Win32s was
sort of a high-point for me. I was amazed at how much we could do in a
corporate environment with it.

I've told the story before about our customer service group at the
time - they had a workgroup set up properly, used chat and mail
internally for their support workflows, and set up a file share
internally with a proper backup system - even set up a shared printer
locally, just because. One of the CS agents wanted to see how far they
could build it and did a pretty good job.



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to xaxyiel <=-

xaxyiel wrote to Fae Empress <=-

sorry mate ill stand down we all good here. to be fully honest, windows 3.1x is not as bad as the newer versions

Windows 3.11 for workgroups, with the TCP/IP addon, WinG and Win32s
was
sort of a high-point for me. I was amazed at how much we could do in a
corporate environment with it.

I didn't think as much of it at the time, but it is the version I seem to
have some nostalgia for now. Maybe because there were some things that ran well under it that stopped running well (if at all) under later versions,
and that didn't run under DOS alone.

95 always seemed too buggy.

I have a box that runs 98SE (that isn't on the internet) and I am happy
with it also.



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windows 3.1x is not as bad as the
newer versions

I'd argue that all day ;). BITD I would spend forever installing Windows 3.x every once in a while.. just to remind myself how bad it is. And sure enough, about 15-20 minutes later, I'm doing deltree c:\windows.
Sooo much time wasted.


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phigan wrote to xaxyiel <=-

windows 3.1x is not as bad as the
newer versions

I'd argue that all day ;). BITD I would spend forever installing
Windows 3.x every once in a while.. just to remind myself how bad it
is. And sure enough, about 15-20 minutes later, I'm doing deltree c:\windows. Sooo much time wasted.

The trick was making a backup as soon as you installed it. :)

Having .ini files instead of a registry made it easy to fix, and the
TCP/IP addin to Windows for Workgroups 3.11 made running apps much
smoother than running Trumpet Winsock.

Back then - renting an apartment, single, no family - I had no demands
on my time. Computers were all new and interesting, so spending time
swapping floppy disks didn't seem like that much of an issue - whether
it was installing OS/2 and the fixpacks, Windows 3.11, tweaking .ini
files, config.sys files, running memmaker, watching it crash,
re-tweaking config.sys files, hand-configuring IRQs...

If I had to do that now, I'd probably move to a farm and raise
chickens.

Back in 1994, some of my developers got a hold of early Chicago
(Windows 95) builds. Seeing that was like logging onto the web for the
first time, knew it was going to be a game changer.
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Back then - renting an apartment,
single, no family - I had no

Well, same ;). I was a kid living at home with an XT (which I later learned was actually a 5150 with an XT case). But, only 20mb HD so definitely couldn't spare to keep something as useless as Windows around.

developers got a hold of early
Chicago

Hah, yeah. My buddy's dad worked for MS or something and he had 95 WAAAAAY super early, and I got to see it. It looked so awesome compared to 3.x, but I was still skeptical about going full on GUI.


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I'd argue that all day ;). BITD I would spend forever installing Windows 3.x every once in a while.. just to remind myself how bad it is. And
sure enough, about 15-20 minutes later, I'm doing deltree c:\windows.
Sooo much time wasted.

AYY YO!
ME TOO DELTREE c:\WINDOWS!

DOS GANG! :3 i am a FreeDOS dev myself

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