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| Answer» <html><body><p>I am just seeing if I can post this . I am using a Canon Innova built in 1993 with a 486 DX 33mhz , 512mb hdd , 256 colour vga display less than 800x600 . Looks kinda funny but it works. I'm using Opera 3.62 on Win 3.11 and Dos 6.22.. Well that is all , like I said , just want to see if this will post alright .Back on my XP machine. Here are some screen shots . I came across a forum somewhere and the guy said he could not go on the web with win3.11 . Just shows you that there is always hope for your computer , ha ha .<br/><br/>[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]<em>You have been spotted by the Internet Police. You will be cited for reckless browsing with an old and dangerous PC.</em> Quote from: kbit on February 22, 2015, 09:28:40 PM</p><blockquote>I am just seeing if I can post this . I am using a Canon Innova built in 1993 with a 486 DX 33mhz , 512mb hdd , 256 colour vga display less than 800x600 . Looks kinda funny but it works. I'm using Opera 3.62 on Win 3.11 and Dos 6.22.. Well that is all , like I said , just want to see if this will post alright .<br/></blockquote> Ha! Thanks for sharing that. Reminds of the days when I had a 486 with Win 3.1. If you have any expansions slots (ISA or PCI) in that machine, you <strong>might</strong> be able to find a video card on eBay that would yield a better display. Cool that this worked, even though some page formatting issues due to age of browser and HTML has come a long ways since in addition to the fact that your probably on 640 x 480 resolution. <br/><br/>Some questions. <br/><br/>What Network Adapter did you <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/use-241643" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about USE">USE</a> to tie into high speed internet or is this a far easier to get working dial-up connection? <br/><br/> ( Back in the days of Win 3.11 the networks I worked around were using BNC coax and Novell Netware and home internet access was Dial-up on a 14.4k AT&T modem with a stack of jumpers to be set pre-PnP modem. The Modern Cat5 I didnt <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/start-239994" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about START">START</a> working with until around 1999 when the older BNC token ring networks were getting yanked in favor for the newer Cat5 at 10Mb/s and HUBS where everywhere and you had to worry about collisions etc. Networking has come a long ways and is so much nicer to manage these days. )<br/><br/>What driver did you use for TCP/IP support and is this a DOS 6.22 TCP/IP driver or one that was made for Win 3.x?<br/><br/>To date the oldest computer that I ever got <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/onto-586605" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ONTO">ONTO</a> the Internet with was a 386 SX 16 Mhz with 4MB 30-pin SIMM RAM, 40MB HDD on Dial up and AOL 2.5 running Windows 3.1 many many years ago. Windows 3.1 consumed about 12MB of the 40MB HDD. The 40MB HDD I pulled out of an early 286 that had the early hard drives that would take up a full 5.25 bay and the space of 2 x Modern Optical drives. They were very noisey when reading/writing data and were Seagate Brand. They required a special drive controller card that was ISA and then had 2 ribbon cables that went to them + power P connector. Prior to that I got online on Prodigy in High School around 1992, but the prodigy service network there was far different than the Internet that really took hold in 1994/1995 onwards and the boom of the late 90s.<br/><br/> Quote from: DaveLembke on February 23, 2015, 08:30:16 AM<blockquote>What driver did you use for TCP/IP support and is this a DOS 6.22 TCP/IP driver or one that was made for Win 3.x?<br/></blockquote> <br/>Microsoft has <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/kb/99891">a TCP/IP Driver for Windows 3.11</a>. All it needs is a network card with a Windows Driver installed.<br/><br/>Technically it is for Windows for Workgroups. However if they have 256 color, they are probably using WfWG since Windows 3.1 and 3.11 as-is do not provide any generic 256 color drivers.The oldest machine's I've tried on the "modern" internet would be a Sun Ultra 5 (Running Solaris 8 ) and a Power Macintosh 8600/200 (Running MacOS 9.1), both using Netscape Navigator 4.0. I was somewhat surprised as to how some things did actually work to a usable level. What I also found very amusing was that several intranet sites at my university worked absolutely perfectly as they were so out of date!<br/><br/>I'll need to try and get one of my old Windows 3.1 machines working online but I don't currently have any suitable ISA network cards. Quote from: kbit on February 22, 2015, 09:28:40 PM<blockquote>I am just seeing if I can post this . I am using a Canon Innova built in 1993 with a 486 DX 33mhz , 512mb hdd , 256 colour vga display less than 800x600 . Looks kinda funny but it works. I'm using Opera 3.62 on Win 3.11 and Dos 6.22.. Well that is all , like I said , just want to see if this will post alright .<br/></blockquote> <br/>Nice, it posted just fine. <br/>I too have a 486, built in 1994. Its DX2 66mhz, 428mb hdd, 256 colour svga. OS is Dos 6 with Windows 3.1 and WIN32 extensions v1.1.5. Browser is NCSA Mosaic 2.0 Alpha 7 from -94. It has 3com's ethernet card and Trumpet tcp/ip stack software and a packet driver.<br/><br/>Offcourse there are not many sites that can be <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/viewed-1446330" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about VIEWED">VIEWED</a> with it, but couple of years ago I could even post to one computer forum with it.<br/>E-mail, newsgroups, ftp and gopher work quite well, even with vintage software.<br/><br/>ps. I noticed this is quite old topic, but I replied partly to test if this <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/posts-25660" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POSTS">POSTS</a> allright (with my ME comp) and its my first post here Welcome Aboard...normally we would embarass you for necro-mancing old topics...<br/>Would you like to sell me the Canon Innova 486? I can give you $150 Canadian for it.CH isn't a post it board for buying & selling. I'd suggest ebay for your needs or amazon for old hardware.Besides the Topic being over 2 years old...</body></html> | |