Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/05/08 15:16, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:Douglas A. Tutty wrote:[snip]<snip>Interestingly enough, I can still use the IBM floppies that an old version of OS/2 came on in 1988. I've had new floppies fail but not those old IBM ones. Go figure.My wife keeps insisting that my Windows95 on those IBM floppies are still good. Let me give it a try. They are from 1990.Windows95 on 1990 floppies???
Got the floppies when I left IBM in 1990. Put Windows95 on them when I bought that in 1995?. But let me see, I can only find disk 10 + 11.
And... hugo@debian:~$ ls -l /media/floppy0/* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1716224 1995-08-24 09:50 /media/floppy0/win95_10.cab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1716224 1995-08-24 09:50 /media/floppy0/win95_11.cab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1716224 1995-08-24 09:50 /media/floppy0/win95_12.cab -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1213809 1995-08-24 09:50 /media/floppy0/win95_13.cab hugo@debian:~$ ls -l /media/floppy0/* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13618 1990-02-02 14:19 /media/floppy0/clock.com -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1869 1990-02-02 14:20 /media/floppy0/clock.ref -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64933 1995-06-10 05:00 /media/floppy0/dcf50.doc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46250 1995-06-10 05:00 /media/floppy0/dcf.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15193 1995-06-10 05:00 /media/floppy0/dcfhelp.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74996 1996-03-27 17:40 /media/floppy0/fileman.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2516 1996-03-27 17:40 /media/floppy0/filemega.pro -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 155520 1988-05-19 09:00 /media/floppy0/kedit.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23790 1988-05-19 09:00 /media/floppy0/kedit.hlp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44361 1990-01-12 19:06 /media/floppy0/nbscom.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 551 1995-12-03 19:10 /media/floppy0/nbscom.ini -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62982 1990-04-29 17:50 /media/floppy0/stp.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3851 1990-04-29 17:50 /media/floppy0/stp.pro -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80 1996-01-21 20:42 /media/floppy0/x.bat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80 1996-01-21 17:00 /media/floppy0/xed.bat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40 1996-01-21 20:43 /media/floppy0/y.bat -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40 1996-01-21 20:43 /media/floppy0/yed.bat hugo@debian:~$ Amazing! Thanks Doug! Hugo