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ppgrainbow β Long Live Vintage Computing
Published: 2009-12-25 09:45:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 3151; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 0
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This stamp is for those who like vintage software or have a secondary, but a older PC that was once used by someone else many years ago!Now with this stamp, you can show your support of reliving the software or old computers that you used to own when you were young.
There are lots of vintage software and computers that are available on eBay as well as Amazon that you might like. Vintage computers are awesome, because they were built to last!
This is going to be the final submission of 2009 and the entire decade. Look for upcoming submissions from me in the new decade.
Comments and favs on this submission are really appreciated! Seasons greetings and enjoy the Christmas holiday!
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My father had an old computer running Windows 98. He bought in 2000. That was the original DELL computer from the United States, and he was still working. His only mistake was that his screen burst. We had to give it to the recycling agency; it was sad that we had given a computer that still functioned. For the past 17 years; it never went for a repair he missesΒ me so much.Β Β The only thing left of him is the old keyboard I still use and the old mouse.
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That's such a wondeful story to hear this! I'm sorry to hear that his monitor burst.
Does his old machine still work today?
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It's working, but as I said, we had to give to the recycling agency.
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Thank you for telling me.
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Sorry to hear that.
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Lots of vintage machines were just very high quality and durable ^^
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Thank you for the compliment!
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No problem!!! More than a compliment, it's the truth!!!! 
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And now we have the virtual machines!!!
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Loving the stamp.
I have plenty of vintage computers and always out for more, provided I can find one, especially at a reasonable price. I currently have an AMD K6-2 400 build with a S3 Trio 64V+ and Voodoo 2 with Windows 98 SE, a 486-66 build with PC DOS 6.3 and Windows 3.11, a 386-16 PC with the same OSes as the 486 (without a case, but manageable and it works), a Tandy 1000 SX, and an Apple Macintosh SE as well as a Power Mac 6500.
Back then, I had a 486-33, a Gateway 933mhz Tower, a freaking IBM PC 5150, a Pentium 100, and a 386? laptop. Really good times. Had Wing Commander Academy, Gateworld, Xargon, Descent II, one of those Pie in the Sky FPS games, a bunch of 5.25 inch disks for my 5150 including Wheel of Fortune, and a few awesome Microsoft titles, including Flight Simulator 2000, Urban Assault Midtown Madness, Casino, Pandora's Box, and plenty more. Unfortunately, I had to give the PCs away and one of them was shot. I've been kicking myself for doing it back then. Although, I still have my Dell Dimension 4100 which replaced my Gateway and still works fine.
But here I am right now with practically what I wanted and still looking out for more.
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Not sure it'd quite count as vintage, but I have an old Gateway Essential 433c with a 433MHz Mendocino-core Celeron that I upgraded to 192MB RAM, swapped the OEM hard drive out for one of my own hard drives, installed WinME on that drive in place of the Debian Squeeze partition that I could no longer access due to along-forgotten password that was on it at the time, and installed a SB Live! 5.1 SB0100 soundcard I had sitting around and my old Propad 6 controller that I use for playing old PC games on.
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Awesome!
Up until I got this new computer earlier this year, I had a 11 year old 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer with a 45 GB hard drive and 2 GB DDR memory (4 GB max). I felt that it was no longer worth it to keep running the old computer forever. Plus, I still use the Tecra 720CDT laptop, but only as a backup PC incase there is a power outage.
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Loved the Apple IIe's, Mac Classics and LC IIIs and Apple Lisas I used in elementary school, planning on someday picking up an Apple II and some old MECC & similar games solely as a gaming device.
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I have some pretty old stuff still installed on my daily use PC. Corel CHART from Corel DRAW 3, the Best Of Windows Entertainment Pack and I've got an old FLC player from about 20 something years back too.
(I said the new decade started at the end of 2010. 
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I not only have CorelDRAW! 3, but CorelDraw! 6 as well. I also have four volumes of Microsoft Entertainment Pack, Microsoft Arcade and Microsoft Return to Arcade.
the new decade actually started in 2011.
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Oh, some good stuff there then!
What was Corel DRAW 6 like? (I've got 8 and 11 as well.)
Yeah, that's what I meant about the new decade.
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It was the first 32-bit version of the product designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51. Win16 support was removed in this release.
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Ah, okay then. Thanks for that info.
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I know whatcha mean. Some of my favorite games from my childhood can only be played on our old computer. Without it, so many good memories could never be recreated.
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This is great! Love all your stamps but I identify with this one a lot coz I still use my PC laptop from 2001 to scan my images since my scanner is also outdated yet is not very big and does a pro job just as well as any new scanner. Despite my super old PC's puny ram and memory, it was actually made in USA and the hardware is way more intact than any of my other machines. Solid!
Now if only I can find a replacement sponge to get my awesome printer from 2005 working again.... (the sponge got filled last year and triggered the auto shut down besides that it's a great printer)
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Thank you for the compliment. I appreciate it!
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you deserve it! Cheers!
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Our first family computer was Windows 3.1, and we still have it.
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That's awesome! I still have this 18-year-old pentop PC and it still runs a version of Windows 3.1 with pen extensions!
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I feel very nostalgic for Windows 95! In some ways it's a better operating system than some of its descendants!
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I agree! I personally believe that Windows 95 is the best operating system around.
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Ah I remember the first computer we owned, Windows 95. Ahhhh yea... ^^
That was good until I got windows 98, sure she's pretty old, but I remember a lot of good memories with it. It can be slow, buggy, unresponsive and whatever, but I do miss the simplistic then.
Windows 7 may be the best platform I owned, it just makes me wish I could go back to retro-ness again. I miss those good computers (and their sounds, ahh sweet sounds!)
I shall add this to my stamp collection!
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Wonderful idea!
I've been running Windows 2000 as my primary operating system for quite a while. I don't know how long I will continue using the OS as Microsoft is going to officially drop support for the operating system in a little more than a month from now.
Many third-party software and hardware vendors have stopped supporting Windows 2000 since the end of 2007.
And by the end of 2013, certain websites may not work correctly under Windows 2000, because it will require a browser or a critical Flash, Shockwave or plugin component that will no longer work with Win2K nor any edition of Windows XP. Firefox 3.6, Java 1.6.x and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 will most likely be the last version that will support Win2K. Adobe Flash Player 11 will most likely not work with Windows 2000 nor Windows XP.
So, in short...I will most likely hang on using Win2K until a critical hardware failure occurs and that there are no replacement parts available or Microsoft edges closer to removing support for Windows XP when support lapses by the end of 2013.
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Even if those supports dropped, it'll still work fine. I had Windows 98 and after Microsoft stopped supporting the 98, I still used it for two more years.
I noticed that I can't go any further with the current OS so getting an upgrade would not be possible ( like bus speed is too low, RAM, bits and so-so).
Technology is always advancing, to me, it's advancing too quickly.
Oh and what else? You can't play/use your favorite old programs on newer OS these days. So there's a flaw.
And... ah yes! There's something good to keep your current OS. It's what you have that future OSes don't.
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Why did you stop using Windows 98 after two more years?
As for newer software made after 2007, it'll simply not work with Windows 98/Me. Infact, Windows 98/Me can't handle more than 1 GB of memory nor hard drives larger than 128 GB.
My PC would still work okay for up to two, three or possibly four more years after support for Windows 2000 is dropped as it is more than 98% obsolete now.
Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98/Me on 11 July 2006. Support was supposed to end on 16 January 2004, but it was extended due to consumer protests in emerging markets, the growing threat of Linux and that it gave users enough time to migrate to a supported operating system.
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To answer the question: Well because they couldn't support it anymore, I began to worry that my aging OS might not support today's new features/plug-ins. Programs requires a more demanding requirements, more errors, and some software's don't take it.
SO that's how I got my laptop for my birthday. She works just fine, until I got... well you know now.
That's pretty good info there.
But there's one question. I heard there's 32 and 64 bit systems today. Do you know if Windows 98 is a 16 bit operating system? That's what I'm wondering.
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As time gradually goes by, people are gonna have to start worrying that their aging operating system might not support new hardware or software that will require more memory (both video RAM and system RAM), hard disk space and most importantly, DLLs.
If some of the functions in the DLL don't work for the software on that OS, it can't be used unless the PC is upgraded.
Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me are all hybrid 16/32-bit operating systems. 64-bit OSes were first introduced with the support for the Intel Itanium 2 processor with Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Limited Edition. There was a Itanium 2 version of Windows XP called Windows XP 64-bit Edition, but it was never popular. Development and support for the OS ended in 2005 when Hewlett Packard, the last distributor of Itanium-based workstations, stopped selling Itanium-based PCs marketed as "workstations" due to market conditions.
In April 2005, the AMD64 bit processors (Operton, Turion 64) as well as Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processors were introduced when Windows XP Professional x64 Edition came out, but it was too never popular due to bugs that were derived from the Windows Server 2003 codebase. 64-bit OSes were also made available for Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista/7 and Windows Server 2008.
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Today however, I have a very reliable computer, which will surely help me go through years until better hardware is introduced. That however will be in a few years for now. X3
That's really interesting to know. I got a 64 bit version right now since I have more memory than I needed.
You really really know these things so well.
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Yeah. I once had a laptop with a 64-bit version of Windows Vista and when the laptop died earlier this year, I found that it wasn't worth it to use it again.
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Ah. my first 32 bit Vista laptop worked just fine. But it's already become obsolete in terms of hardware. Like the built in HD DVD (Only Toshiba produces those for their computers), the support for this format ended sometime in Febuary 2008 since Blu-Ray is better in storage and support.
She's still functional, expect a particular key on the keyboard "->" stopped working. Also the whole laptop is getting hotter so I had to buy the laptop cooler for it.
And lastly, it's soooo cluttered with stuff. That's why my latest computer is more organized.
Hmmm we're getting off topic here.
Need to say more?
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It sounds like that your laptop had some faulty components when it had 32-bit Windows Vista installed. My laptop failed when the GPU chip blew out thus killing the motherboard and there were no replacement parts available at all.
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