Okay... so I was getting more paper for the printer, and when I pulled it out from the shelf a bunch of floppies fell on my desk. Looking on that shelf, I saw a lot of old floppies and various other stuff, so I decided to have a look... here's what I found.
- Logitech Mouseware Utilities 6.2 For DOS: two packages, one opened with two 5.25" floppies inside and one still sealed, with two 5.25" floppies and a single 3.5" floppy.
- Windows 3.1 installation, 7 3.5" floppies
- Excel 5.0, 10 3.5" floppies
- "Word for Windows" (I'm assuming this is Word 5 or 6 or somewhere around that version), 10 3.5" floppies
- a really old joystick. Wonder if it still works...
- a really old Logitech mouse. It looks rather cool. Again, I wonder if this still works...
- another oldish Logitech mouse, a bit more ergonomic. This one looks yucky, but it still doesn't stop me from wondering if it still works. Maybe I'll check tomorrow.
- a drive for 5.25" floppies. :D It looks like it could still work, too. With this and a few other computer spare parts I could reconstruct the computer of my childhood.
- a card - dunno what this is, was in the same box as the floppy drive... could be related to it maybe?
- a filing box for 5.25" floppies, with a bunch still inside. :D (Sidenote: a lot of them still have their sleeves. Wonder if there are any not listed in the 5.25" sleeve archive, I could submit them...) Some of them are:
- boot floppies for various DOS versions
- what appears to be an antivirus program
- Walt Disney "Matterhorn Screamer" game with instructions
- a disk with I-dont-know-what-inside, what's relevant is the date on it: 24/11/87 (DD/MM/YY format). I was 5.
- MS Flight Simulator (LOL, I guess this is what the joystick was for)
- G.Prix - I assume this is a car racing game
- Railroad simulator (first cool simulation game ever)
- still sealed package of tiny silver labels
- another antivirus (IBM)
- a disk labelled "PC-UTIL" - with a note: "printed manual exists". Hee.
- WS - I remember this, DOS-based text processor. It had red options screens, blue background and white text. Once I had to type up something or other for school, I waited until late evening to do it, stayed up until 11pm (keep in mind I was maybe 8 or 9) to do it, because the program automatically justified the text. I however didn't like justified text, so I went through it and removed each and every added space. Then mom came downstairs, saw what I'd done, said "that's ugly" and manually replaced each space. ^^;
- another disk with a date - '92, wow, we were still using 5.25" floppies then?
- a program called "Impress", apparently another text editor; "Persuasive reports and presentations with 1-2-3(R)", the three-page photocopied manual says
- some ooooold programs in fortran that my dad used to use for his work
- some Matrox MGA Power Graphics installation disks
- Corel PhotoPaint Select (for Win 3.1 or 95, apparently), 3 3.5" floppies
- Win95 boot floppy
- a bunch of very old software for my scanner (11 3.5" floppies)
- Adaptec EZ-SCSI for Windows, whatever that is
- RadioREVEAL 1.1, whatever that is...
- CD-ROM device driver, version 2.00, "Real 6.X Speed". Hehe.
- Mitsumi Electronics Europe FX-IDE Series ATAPI CD-ROM Device Driver Installation Disk v1.55
- F-prot professional antivirus for DOS, version 2.23. One of the few non-copied softwares. ^^;
3.5" - SyQuest IDE Hardware Configuration, whatever that is
3.5" - Corel Draw 4.0, Italian version (12 3.5" floppies)
- Microsoft Creative Writer (4 3.5" floppies) and Microsoft Fine Artist (3 3.5" floppies). I thought I'd lost those! I loved those programs. :D
- Photostyler 2.0 (whatever that is)
- Norton Utilities 7.0
- Drafix CAD for Windows, version 2.00
- PC Tools for Windows 1.0
- Lotus Organizer
- PC Tools 9.0 for DOS
- MS-DOS 6 User Manual (in Italian)
- Win98 Manual (in Italian)
- DOS IBM 5.0 Manual (in Italian)
- And a bunch other manuals, only they're on a higher shelf and I can't be bothered to drag a chair to it to get to them
Ahh, memories. :D I wonder if I can still find that old 5.25" floppy and that old 3.5" floppy which had a bunch of games on them...