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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:21:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   It's been 30 years but I'm still mad at the punk who snuck SMARTDRV.EXE into the install process but fucked it up so that it's BEFORE the @ ECHO OFF line.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:25:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     DOS is done. Onto Windows for Workgroups

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:48:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I probably don't need to install this newfangled "Flash" stuff. It'll never catch on.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:51:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's time for some TRUMPET WINSOCK!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 03:58:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I installed DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, patched SVGA drivers, Netscape Communicator 4.08, Video for Windows, and Trumpet Winsock 3.0.

     and the system hangs permanently when you run Netscape Navigator. ahh, old computers.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:07:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     interestingly Netscape Communicator 4.08 doesn't have an uninstaller: it has a deinstaller.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:12:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     rolling back to Netscape Navigator 3.04

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:13:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay that at least LAUNCHES.
     no network connection yet.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:40:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I INSTALLED THE WRONG VERSION OF WINDOWS

     This is Windows 3.11, but not Windows for Workgroups 3.11

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 04:56:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Fixed. Reinstalled. And we're live!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 05:09:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Yeah the Mastodon/Hometown layout REALLY isn't designed for tiny screens. And I'm kinda cheating here, I've got a virtual high-end graphics card, so this is 256 colors at 800x600!

   • §-57213 (syntheticautumn@girlcock.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 05:36:52 JST §-57213

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     @foone *trumpet noises*
     *windows 95 startup sound*
     *sock noises???*

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 05:36:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • §-57213

     @SyntheticAutumn I know what two of those are, but what the fuck are sock noises?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:11:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Alice🌸

     @alicela1n nah. Image editing

   • Alice🌸 (alicela1n@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:11:01 JST Alice🌸

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     @foone is this a web rendering proxy?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:12:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Siph :siph:‍:bzh:

     @Siph nah. Image editing

   • Siph :siph:‍:bzh: (siph@meemu.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:12:27 JST Siph :siph:‍:bzh:

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     @foone are you using Browservice there?

   • Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:18:32 JST Deadly Headshot

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     @foone How does that work at all?! The Mastodon JS is too much for even old versions of Firefox!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:18:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Deadly Headshot

     @dheadshot image editing!

   • lolcat (lolcat@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 06:54:43 JST lolcat

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     @foone

     I have vague memories of a colleague working up a script to connect Windows PCs to our network via SLIP and Trumpet WINSOCK to enable POP access for Eudora.

     We ran a terminal server that supported dialup SLIP, PPP, ARAP, and, of course, serial terminals. As I recall, US Robotics modems were the only ones capable of real-world 56k rates, and even that required quite a bit of S-register fiddling. We even acted as the ISP for remote offices.

     A lot of that was genuinely fun stuff to do.