This keyboard is the natural heir to the obsolete but much loved Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro: Now that I own one, I'm not excited any more. I was plenty excited when I saw Microsoft was releasing a new non-mangled ergonomic keyboard - the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Virtual PC only understands non-compressed (.IMA) floppy images, so be sure you avoid the default compressed (.IMZ) floppy images.ĭiscussion Keyboarding: Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 You may find WinImage helpful here for creating floppy disk images from collections of files. It's a sketchy looking website, but if you follow the yahoo briefcase download instructions closely, the software is all still present and downloadable. There's a huge collection of old 16-bit Windows software on the 10 year anniversary of Windows 3.1 page. And don't forget DOS 6.22 like I did! Set it up following the great instructions from Virtual PC guy: If you want to rock your own WFW 3.11 virtual machine, you can download the OS from peteweb. I distinctly remember using the first version of IE under Windows 95- the one that didn't understand the tag or animated gifs!Īs for the title of this post, according to the canonical list of Microsoft code names, Snowball was the internal Microsoft codename for the WFW 3.11 project. By the time the web caught on in late '95, most of the early adopters I knew had already transitioned to Windows 95. Most people are surprised to find that there was a Windows 3.x version of circa-1999 Internet Explorer 5. I never browsed the intarweb through any version of Windows 3.x. Not unreasonable, considering WFW 3.11 was well on its way to total obsolescence before Google even made it out of a Stanford dorm room in 1998. I absolutely love the fact that we get a javascript error on the Google homepage. What would the world be like if Windows 95 and Windows NT has been cancelled? You'd be surfing the web right now in Windows for Workgroups 3.11:
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