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Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by cdchn »

stevekemp wrote: post #18
jjbinx007 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a grossly underrated OS. As good as Windows XP but without the awful garish themes - it had all that made the Windows 98 GIU great but with the stability of Windows NT. Also, I don't think you needed to activate it and it didn't have much in the way of telemetry. We'll never have a Windows version as great again.

Windows 2000 was peak-Windows for me, for sure. Not quite as stable as Windows NT4, but pretty close, and it benefited from added support for USB and other "modern" things.

And compatibility with Windows 95 and MS-DOS.

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by elijahrdev »

treesknees wrote: post #29

It's great that someone is trying to preserve these operating systems. However the choice of limiting it to 1 user per OS at a time makes the museum/website unusable. I tried several times over the span of 20 minutes and couldn't get into a single VM. While it doesn't cover everything, there is no shortage of browser-based emulators that can run most of the software listed. Windows 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 https://www…

We actually run a site pretty similar to this in concept, we've got 9 VMs total and you can take 20 second turns controlling them with other users. There's chat, and if someone breaks it, you can start a vote to reset.

https://computernewb.com/collab-vm/

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by sillywalk »

mrpippy wrote: post #19

Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway, it was an early NT terminal server product. I remember they ran an open-to-the-Internet NT 3.51 server, you could download the ICA Client and connect to it. Imagine leaving a Windows terminal server that wide-open now.

I wonder if you had a say a Windows 98 machine (or a 20+ year old version of Linux, or one of the Unixes) open on the internet now. Are there still bots out there that would find it and exploit it?

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

#35

Post by DANmode »

sillywalk wrote: post #33
mrpippy wrote: post #19

Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway, it was an early NT terminal server product. I remember they ran an open-to-the-Internet NT 3.51 server, you could download the ICA Client and connect to it. Imagine leaving a Windows terminal server that wide-open now.

I wonder if you had a say a Windows 98 machine (or a 20+ year old version of Linux, or one of the Unixes) open on the internet now. Are there still bots out there that would find it and exploit it?

...yes.

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by M95D »

DANmode wrote: post #35
sillywalk wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if you had a say a Windows 98 machine (or a 20+ year old version of Linux, or one of the Unixes) open on the internet now. Are there still bots out there that would find it and exploit it?

...yes.

Did you actually try it?

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

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Post by M95D »

sillywalk wrote: post #33
mrpippy wrote: post #19

Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway, it was an early NT terminal server product. I remember they ran an open-to-the-Internet NT 3.51 server, you could download the ICA Client and connect to it. Imagine leaving a Windows terminal server that wide-open now.

I wonder if you had a say a Windows 98 machine (or a 20+ year old version of Linux, or one of the Unixes) open on the internet now. Are there still bots out there that would find it and exploit it?

Open in what way? Have it connected to the internet with a public IP? Files and printer sharing installed? Personal Web Server v1.0 serving a web page online?

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

#38

Post by M95D »

cdchn wrote: post #31
stevekemp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows 2000 was peak-Windows for me, for sure. Not quite as stable as Windows NT4, but pretty close, and it benefited from added support for USB and other "modern" things.

And compatibility with Windows 95 and MS-DOS.

What compatibility? What are you talking about? Can't even run Doom.

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/3353-cant-get-dooom-to...

Re: Virtual Computer Museum – VNC into Archaic Windows Systems

#39

Post by M95D »

ahoka wrote: post #22
cdchn wrote: post #2

I think Windows 2000 is the only one I remember fondly.

Just bought a T43 to run Windows 2000 this week. Just got wifi working with WPA2, so I just need some decent browser and some apps next.

Install Extended Kernel patch and you can use MyPal (a fork of Firefox v68 that can run on WinXP).
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