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Commodore kid
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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 18:34 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 18:35
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Does anyone know where i can get them i have lookd every where but i cant find them i assume they would be free because of the age. i have tried looking at the microsoft website but i cant find them i was hopeing to use them with vmware.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 18:52 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 18:52
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they are not free.
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Commodore kid
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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:01
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I rufuse to pay for something so primitive. I mite try and get a mate to copy it.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:03
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In which case Microsoft will get rather annoyed may cause you problems - in which you'll pay for that.

And we'll have no mention of pirating things here.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:04 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 19:04
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Sorry but there is usally a free download for outdated software.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:11 Edited at: 11th Jun 2006 19:11
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And its usually illegal... Microsoft haven't as far as I know made their old OS's free - could always check with them to find out.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:18
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It's up to microsoft. There's no law that says outdated software should be free.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 19:51
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Check your local pawn shop or thrift store cause thats where I got mine for a dollar.(Talking about 3.1!)

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:15
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If you were a smart young chap. That windows95 cd that came with your computer is still in your posession. If you were an even smarter chap, you made a backup of this cd. And IF you remove windows 95 from your old computer you can "technically" install it on a new computer because the licence is for one machine.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:27
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thats a lot of ifs

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:36
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Quote: "If you were a smart young chap. That windows95 cd that came with your computer is still in your posession. If you were an even smarter chap, you made a backup of this cd. And IF you remove windows 95 from your old computer you can "technically" install it on a new computer because the licence is for one machine.
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I never had it my computer came with windows xp pro.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:47
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you must still be a young chap then

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 20:56
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Quote: "I never had it my computer came with windows xp pro"


Then you need to buy 3.1 or 95. MS have never released any of their OS's for free.

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 21:33
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i have found both for free now

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 23:06
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That is illegal and you are on thin ice talking about these things.

Quote: " I rufuse to pay for something so primitive. I mite try and get a mate to copy it."


If they are so primitive then why in Benjamins name do you want it? You want something but are unwilling to pay for it

Seems rather silly to me

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 23:16
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Should go for Linux...

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 23:31
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Stories from Microsoft... how one company lost its mind.

One fair day I lost my registration code for Windows 98. Looking for a way around buying a new version I came up with a devious plan. I called up microsoft and in a very 'youthful voice' asked for a copy of the manual to be sent to my door step. Turns out they didn't even bother taking off the registration code. And Microsoft got outsmarted once again!


The point of my anadote? Call Microsoft and ask them, they might send it to you for free (probally not), or charge a very low price... it would be best to wait for vista though (makes it even more obsolute).


By the way, if Rich wanted to he could contact Microsoft, turn over your IP and announce that you are piriting their software. The big men in black suits will then come over and take your computer away (along with everything else).


Finally, why do you want 3.1?


@TDP Enterprises:
Much younger then I thought... I was the 'smart chap' who kept the 95 CD, kept the 98 cd... but failed to keep a back up of either (CDs broke about 3 years ago).

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Posted: 11th Jun 2006 23:38
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Quote: "By the way, if Rich wanted to he could contact Microsoft, turn over your IP and announce that you are piriting their software."

Any of the mods can - we could contact Microsoft, FAST et al.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 00:08 Edited at: 12th Jun 2006 00:08
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eBay sells them for meer pounds.

http://computers.search.ebay.co.uk/windows-95_Microsoft_W0QQcatrefZC12QQfromZR41QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQsacatZ41882

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Microsoft-Windows-95-with-Manual-C-O-A-and-boot-disk_W0QQitemZ7248101072QQcategoryZ41883QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/windows-95-upgrade-boxed-and-unopened_W0QQitemZ7248694730QQcategoryZ41883QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Oh and if you want some really good fun there's this version.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Windows-95-Floppy-Disk-23-disks-FULL-VERSION-COA_W0QQitemZ7248566147QQcategoryZ41883QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It's only 23-Floppy Disks.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 00:51
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Microsoft doesn't release their OS's because almost all of them are still in use in the industrial world. We have 4 benders that run on MS DOS 6.22, 1 saw that runs on Win 3.11 with MS DOS 6.22, and 1 saw that runs on Win 95. And this equipement is fairly new. I can still buy copies of all of those from MS. I can even buy 486 100MHz processors and P1 200MHX MMX processors which they run on. Why would they give away what they can sell?

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@Merranvo: I was talkin bout commodore kid

I windows 98 btw, it was teh bomb

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Quote: "...why in Benjamins name do you want it?"

LMAO

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 07:56
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I would try maybe contacting MS and see if you can buy it (for surely not too expensive)

I can see why they would not sell win95 for free(because of .exe stuff and such) but win3.1 I see no reason (dos6.22 I don't see a reason for because theirs things like freedos)

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 12:55
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Quote: "i assume they would be free because of the age."


Why should software be given away for nothing even if it is old? Copywrite doesn't end for 70 years in the UK, and books last for 70 years plus the writers age, meaning that the 70 years doesn't start until the writer is dead. Microsoft are still a very active company, who hold all the legal licences to their own work.

This whole P2P firesharing and abandonware thing seems to have given the impression that we're entitled software just because it's old. That confuses me somewhat.

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As I said you can buy any version of Microsoft OS's from Microsoft. You need to get ahold of their industrial division. Seems like MS DOS 6.22 is about $60 and Win 3.11 is about the same. It's been about a year since I priced them though.

They can still sell these as it is hell getting the industrial software, that runs on them, to run properly on the others like FreeDOS. The industrial software that runs on this can be as high as $2000 per license( for 3 floppy disks 0_o ). That is the sad part. But if you have hardware that needs it, you have no choice as it could cost 10's of 1000's to upgrade the hardware.

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i have found win 3.1 off the microsoft website i just need 95 now if it costs less then £5 ill buy it.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2006 21:09
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Quote: "I can see why they would not sell win95 for free(because of .exe stuff and such)"


Yah... um... the .exe stuff

Quote: "have found win 3.1 off the microsoft website"


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He's prob got a copy of Windows installer 3.1.

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Quote: "i have found win 3.1 off the microsoft website"

link?

Quote: "Quote: "I can see why they would not sell win95 for free(because of .exe stuff and such)"

Yah... um... the .exe stuff "

I mean how you can run the 32bit exe's and win32api

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i have now managed to find a copy of 95 from my local computer corner shop.

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Quote: "Quote: "i have found win 3.1 off the microsoft website"
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Yep, this kid is pirating. I recommend that the mods contact MS.

Commodore kid, do you realize how dumb your plan to trick us was. As soon as he asked for the link, you say you found it at a place where you cannot provide a link for, and ignored his question. It's as plain as the fact that your a noob.

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@sig
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LOL ... ^
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Here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en

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I was gutted to find a copy of 3.1 up in the loft. along with a broken dos computer.

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And if you dont baleve me still heres a pic of the computer.

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Quote: "Here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en
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Is it just me or is that definitely not the Win 3.1 operating system, but rather the version number of some other windows app?

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And the case to win 3.1.

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Haha that is the Win Installer. Not the OS hehehehe.

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And we sure know that thats your case right?
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Hahaha!

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Quote: "Yep, this kid is pirating. I recommend that the mods contact MS."


Like MS is going to care about some kid downloading a 15 year old os just to see what it will look like

By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.
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property is theft!

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You mean piracy?

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Quote: "He's prob got a copy of Windows installer 3.1"

I told you all ages ago

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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482FC-5F56-4A38-B838-DE776FD4138C&displaylang=en
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I love it when I'm right, but would he listen? Reading the posts is too much effort from him.

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And that picture of a box is of Windows 1, not windows 3.1

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Quote: "You mean piracy?"



that as well.

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Kenjar, buddy, that link is not to the Windows 3.1 Operating System, but a link to Windows Installer Ver. 3.1 which is, and I quote, "application installation and configuration service"

It's not an operating system.

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Izzy, that was the whole point that Kenjar was making. He predicted it and he was right.

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