Why upgrade to 5.1? I think I have my 5.0.20 disks *and docset* somewhere... (I have 4s too, but since Mladen is taking care of that, I don't have to rummage around) Hey, remember SQL*Calc?
Bambi. -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Indeed. It's SO cool to run the version 5 thing again. Will you be at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham in December by any chance? Robson, Peter wrote: >Ah-a - NOW I see why you want my old version 5 manuals!! > >peter >edinburgh > > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:45 PM >>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >>Subject: Re: 10g: SQL Plus >> >> >>Well, we have a good, working 5.25 floppy drive installed on >>our Oracle >>Museum PC (486, 25 MHz) now, and we're planning on installing >>WordPerfect 4.2, Lotus 1-2-3 (with the plug-in for Oracle, which Cary >>will bring over for the Database Forum next week), and other >>goodies. We >>have 5.1 running, and it's very, very fast to start up. Oh, >>and exports >>from 5.1 are fine to import in 9i. We haven't tested 10g yet. >> >>We're showcasing this wonder - and the rest of the Oracle Museum for >>which some of you have so generously helped - at the 10g launch days >>next week here in Denmark. >> >>Now, Mladen, would it be possible somehow to get hold of eg a zip of >>those 4.1 floppies? >> >>We have of course ordered another 486 PC, and we intend to >>give it all >>of 4 MB of RAM like the other one. >> >>The guy that sells all these things has a shop called >>Dinotech, and he >>still has about 9 new 5.25 drives from way back then. He'll sell for >>about 100 kroner each. >> >>We paid 200 kroner for the IBM DOS 5 in its original wrap. >> >>Mogens >> >>Mladen Gogala wrote: >> >> >> >>>Will they have UFI in 10g? I'm sort of nostalgic. I cannot install my >>>3 360k 5.25 floppies with oracle 4.1 on any PC. How about oralink? >>>Remarkably, it all used to run in 512k of RAM, which is less >>> >>> >>then the >> >> >>>L3 cache size on any decent P4 system. 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