Unboxing Windows NT 3.1
I had a shrink wrap copy of Windows NT 3.1 Workstation floating around, and decided to open it up.
It's quite hard finding a copy of this version these days. After missing out on a new copy from the US selling for around $300, by chance this one came up locally a while later and got it for $60.
Upon opening the box, you are presented with the following:
You are given the choice to install by either 3.5" floppies or CD-ROM. The 5.25" floppies were just enough to boot off to the CD-ROM installation. There's a page at the back of the manual that you had to tear out and sent off in order to get the 5.25" version. There was a time limit on getting those disks - up until the end of May 1994.
The printed material. The System Guide spans a couple of hundred pages, which is generally broken up into using Windows generally, the administration tools, and configuring for network use.
For the 1990s and beyond!
An indication of the compatible video cards out-of-the-box from back then:
It's quite hard finding a copy of this version these days. After missing out on a new copy from the US selling for around $300, by chance this one came up locally a while later and got it for $60.
Upon opening the box, you are presented with the following:
You are given the choice to install by either 3.5" floppies or CD-ROM. The 5.25" floppies were just enough to boot off to the CD-ROM installation. There's a page at the back of the manual that you had to tear out and sent off in order to get the 5.25" version. There was a time limit on getting those disks - up until the end of May 1994.
The printed material. The System Guide spans a couple of hundred pages, which is generally broken up into using Windows generally, the administration tools, and configuring for network use.
For the 1990s and beyond!
An indication of the compatible video cards out-of-the-box from back then:
Comments
QEMU is the only emulator I've seen to really emulate this version properly. According to the below site I saw ages ago, NT 3.1 had some issues with the PCI bus.
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/2009/08/19/networking-with-windows-nt-3-1-under-emulation/
Should be okay. Images were posted via postimage.org and I noticed it was timing out for a while yesterday.
Turning off ublock0 and umatrix on winworld didn't help. I doubt noscript and encrypted web (an https-everywhere fork) is causing issues.
EDIT: I just reset my browser profile and reinstalled all my extensions and now I can see the images.
If you contribute (dump) it, thanks.