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MilesAhead:
If you want I can sent you a WinAmp v1.91 installer that actually comes from 1998...which still works fine on Windows 7 (I tried it myself).
About 600Kbyte of goodness ;)
-Shades (March 01, 2014, 01:39 PM)
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Sounds like it would be fun to try.
rgdot:
powerpro is near the top of the list.
widgewunner:
ZTree for Windows (reborn from XTree (for DOS)) .
Cannot. Live. Without.
40hz:
Peachtree Accounting (in one form or another) from about 1981 up until 2008.
Never really liked the product personally - assuming it's possible to actually "like" an accounting application. ;D And it seemed to get junked up quickly once the Windows versions came out. But it was a very capable general purpose double-entry accounting solution. One which enforced accounting standards fairly well. And for a while it was one of the least expensive SMB accounting packages that still allowed you to "drill-down" to transaction detail level and allowed BOM 'assemblies' in inventory - so that put it well ahead of the pack for many years. All in all a decent bit of software that got the job done.
I sure don't miss it. 8)
As far as something which got used in it's original version forever, I'd have to say it was the Mac-based Acta outliner which I bought sometime around 1986 or 1987. It's still my favorite single-pane outliner. It originally ran on a trusty Macintosh SE until I moved it to a snazzy Macintosh IIsi in 1990. I used Acta up until about 1999 when the IIsi it was running on finally died.
app103:
If you want I can sent you a WinAmp v1.91 installer that actually comes from 1998...which still works fine on Windows 7 (I tried it myself).
About 600Kbyte of goodness ;)
-Shades (March 01, 2014, 01:39 PM)
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Sounds like it would be fun to try.
-MilesAhead (March 01, 2014, 04:05 PM)
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No thanks! Putting my system at risk is not my idea of fun. All of those old versions have exploitable security vulnerabilities...lots of them. :o
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