Sorry, but this is just a thought... if HP could give Win 95 LICENCES, and
you could find a 3.5" copy of Windows 95 (and the HP's have 8MB RAM), you
could run Windows 95 fine. I'm running it on my DX/50 here.
Hope that this helps,
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Kip Crosby <engine_at_chac.org>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 7:45 PM
Subject: HP Win 3.1 -- off topic, but need help
>Yesterday I did the Silicon Valley Elderhostel comp. hist. lecture, and in
>the Q&A afterwards, a woman from one of the gold rush ~ghost towns in the
>Sierra said that her school had been given two HP Vectra 486's, but with no
>OS's. HP has been forced to follow MS' ultimatum (who but MS could or
>would step on HP?) and can only supply her with Win95, which these boxes
>don't have the horsepower for, on CD, but.... no CD drives either. She
>badly needs HP Vectra OEM Windows 3.1(1) on 3.5" floppies, and HP's
>response to her is basically "We're only allowed to tell you that that
>never existed."
>
>Can anybody help with a copy? TVMIA --
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Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 10:57:25 GMT