I've been using an ancient Dell Server running Server 2000 forever at my appliance store. We used to run our point of sale(POS) terminals through it. In fact member Senza Nom set it up for me.

While we long ago moved away from a DOS based POS system, I've kept it because it could run Lotus 123 which we have tracked our appliance inventory in. Crude, but it worked perfectly.

Sadly, the hard drive evidently had a bad sector and after a recent power flicker, it refuses to post. And I have neither the discs for 2000 or the 3.5 floppies for Lotus 123 anymore.

Spent yesterday inputting inventory to Excel. My only complaint is that Excel has way too many features and is way to cluttered for what I need to do with this project. Times certainly do change.

Congrats!

At work we still have software that requires Netscape Navigator.

I may be the only one that still has their copy of Windows '95 with USB Support.

We've got a lab instrument that won't run on anything newer than Win7, and another application that only really works in IE [doesn't like Edge, not the other browser options].

We've been trying to close as many security holes as we can & a few of these have made it tougher.
The Win7 machine is completely off-network, and We've been retiring as many of the others as we can.

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... My only complaint is that Excel has way too many features and is way to cluttered for what I need to do with this project. Times certainly do change.

Never fear, in a big FU to existing customers Microsoft will arbitrarily change everything next version

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Never fear, in a big FU to existing customers Microsoft will arbitrarily change everything next version

Hey, I think OS's peaked at XP.

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Never fear, in a big FU to existing customers Microsoft will arbitrarily change everything next version

Hey, I think OS's peaked at XP.

Correct.

Well... welcome to 2010!

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:

Hey, I think OS's peaked at XP.

I kinda agree with that! Win7 wasn't bad, but everything since then has been an absolute turd.

I did Win95 and Win98 in High School, and my first IT job was a Win 2000 shop, so I had quite a bit of experience with both the Server and Desktop versions of that OS. Miss those days...everything was simpler, but some things did suck like having to go around and spend 3 hours per workstation cleaning up a virus outbreak, on machines that took 20 minutes to reboot.

Win 7 / XP and XP Pro all worked.

for most users, everything else doesn't make anything easier, only makes it harder

I am running Win 7 on two laptops and XP Pro on a desktop and they work just fine

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Never fear, in a big FU to existing customers Microsoft will arbitrarily change everything next version

Hey, I think OS's peaked at XP.

I've got a customer whose software runs under an XP VM on W7, actually a really solid setup. You can install a native XP VM on a couple newer versions of windows, but it'll only run for 1 month and start asking for registration and lock you out. There are probably work-arounds for that, but screw MS for doing that.

Wow, Lotus 123. I liked Quattro Pro myself.

But if you need help with Excel, let me know. I've been recognized as a numbers guy and an Excel wizard at my places of work. Did you get the subscription based Excel or the single desktop license?

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Wow, Lotus 123. I liked Quattro Pro myself.

But if you need help with Excel, let me know. I've been recognized as a numbers guy and an Excel wizard at my places of work. Did you get the subscription based Excel or the single desktop license?

Subscription as part of 365.

Thanks for the offer but just the opposite, i really don't need much from it.

And 123 was a really solid system.