Windows 11

[jimduncanuk]

Just checked my superfast 18 month old PC and guess what?

It won't run Windows 11.

Something to file under (worry about in 2025 if I am still alive then).

Just tweaked the BIOS and now it CAN run Windows 11. Oh joy!

However my old old PC, 9 years old, which just runs Windows 10 and no more will fail to run Windows 11. Shame.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I remember a mate being a Windows 95 beta tester... 

[jimduncanuk]

I remember a mate being a Windows 95 beta tester... 

Yeah, we did all that many years ago. We also designed and produced their first mail server software.

[Orcs]

Windows 10 was still a free upgrade a year ago,  they just wanted people to use it.

BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Windows 10 was still a free upgrade a year ago,  they just wanted people to use it.

BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!

No we need paper tape and punch cards. Tape - 1/2" reel to reel.

[Raider4]

BRING BACK DOS 6.0 and 3.5 " floppy disks. !!!!!

I have a shrink-wrapped copy of DOS 6.2 - manual, 3.5" disks, licence - sitting on a bookshelf somewhere. Grabbed it when they were emptying the storage cupboards at work.

I also have (opened) copies of Windows 3.0 and 3.1.

And Doom v.1.666. And a Compuserve "sign-up" disk.

Don't know why I keep these things? Certainly don't have anything with a disk drive to run them on.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Doom is awesome!

[steve_holmes_11]

No we need paper tape and punch cards. Tape - 1/2" reel to reel.

Say what you like about punched cards.
You could drop them and not worry about a cracked screen.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

But as they found out at the Oxford computer in Rectory Road in the 60s, it doesn't like a bag of crisps and a bottle of Newcastle Brown.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

They also make good book marks

[Ithoriel]

They also make good book marks

Good for writing shopping list on too.

My supply has long since run out.

[jimduncanuk]

Good for writing shopping list on too.

My supply has long since run out.

I still have a punched card metal tray which I keep tools in.

[Dave Fielder]

After the 31st Dec 2024 apocalypse we won't be needing Windows 11, we will be lucky to still have windows!!   

[Heedless Horseman]

After the 31st Dec 2024 apocalypse we won't be needing Windows 11, we will be lucky to still have windows!!   

Um...which one is this? No Google answer! 
Only threw out Ma's stockpile of cans for 'The Millennium Bug' last year! 

[steve_holmes_11]

Um...which one is this? No Google answer! 
Only threw out Ma's stockpile of cans for 'The Millennium Bug' last year! 

That (if I remember correctly) is when your 32 bit clock runs out of "seconds past 00:00 Jan 1st 1970".
Most* computer clocks now hold a 64 bit number, and that covers us for the next half-trillion years.

* You'll find out on the day, but anything installed in the last 10 years ought to be 64 bit.