On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected]> wrote: > Just had a question from an accounting type person of "Do we still have > backups of the Pic system?" Now the system in question was in place in the > late 90s ...
I've got a virtual Windows 95 client networked to a virtual Windows NT 4.0 server on a virtual LAN in VMware, all for access to a legacy accounting system. Once in a blue moon some VIP will say they need something from it, and I have to fire that up on my workstation. All I need is some virtual dust to blow off it when that happens. ;-) Both server and client were P2V'ed, because the prospect of actually trying to install either client or server from original media was frankly terrifying. It was all done before I got here, by some guy named Bob who knew all about computers. Erk. (Documentation? What's that?) And I think they lost some of the install disks, too. One neat thing about that system (back when it was in production) was that Bob had somehow found a way to get the C: partition to be the entire 9 GB first hard disk (RAID? what's that?). NT 4.0 couldn't read past 7.8 GB during bootstrap. Things were fine until we installed SP4 (updates? what are those?), and the new version of NTOSKRNL.EXE was placed past the 7.8 GB line on the disk. Black screen of death on reboot. (It apparently didn't even have enough marbles to generate the color blue.) Ah, that was fun, fixing that. Digging around for a copy of Partition Magic that could boot off floppy -- at 10 PM in the evening... -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
