Progress Nostalgia

[JamesBowen]

I see nobody has said anything about Version 7. Whoops, I said it. May I be damned for all eternity!

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Before my time but I'm pretty sure we skipped v7 entirely.

 

[TheMadDBA]

Pretty sure I still have the V4 documentation somewhere and probably the install tapes for Xenix

 

[TomBascom]

I have v4 floppies...

The last time I tried to install it (about 10 years ago) I had to cobble together a working set from half a dozen or so -- the things decay over time

I doubt that the machine that I put it on still runs -- but I should try it sometime just in case. It's in the closet under a pile of junk though. It may take a while to dig it out.

 

[TheMadDBA]

Thanks for bringing up the floppies.... all those horrible memories of disk 48 being bad and having to start over

 

[dancar]

Okay folks... Its been a while since I last visited and I couldnt resist exposing my ancient days... especially viewing the context of these posts...
but somewhere here I have Progress and early (symix) on a 5-1/2" floppies.
Anyone remember the version?

 

[KrisM]

Speaking of old promotion paraphernalia, anyone recognise this ?

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Speaking of old promotion paraphernalia, anyone recognise this ?

Never seen that one. Was that some early v10 swag?

 

[KrisM]

Yes
probably from 2008 or 2009 or something

 

[TheMadDBA]

Can't quite recall when or where this came from...

 

[JamesBowen]

I was in Ireland in 2002~3 for a Progress Exchange thingy and on the last day I was given some swag. One of the freebies was a letter opener in the form of a letter 'e'. Ireland's airport security control had a field day with that item in my hand luggage.

 

[ForEachInvoiceDelete]

Found a 7.3E Dat tape brand new in box on the shelf, along with a pocket webspeed book to go with it.