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I have a couple of requests, if anyone is still wiling to make some wallpapers. One that is 1280x1024, and is ATI Radeon X800 and AMD Athlon 64 based. The other one is a Pentium D Extreme Edition and Quadro FX 4800 Combo. Thanks to anyone who is willing to do this!!

Godlike wrote on 2019-11-03, 10:32:

I got this wallpaper in my Compaq Presario 1995, such great pc

Donating some from one of my first computers, a Compaq Evo:

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but it's close to the topic. I have an IBM Aptiva with Win95 and have the original screen saver for IBM with the eye ball and the bee flying around. I was just curious how to save it to keep the screen saver? Is it possible to save it without a set up file? I want to save it too disk so if the hard drive dies I got it backed up. Thanks!

Tommaso

Tommaso72 wrote on 2020-06-06, 03:36:

Sorry if this is the wrong thread but it's close to the topic. I have an IBM Aptiva with Win95 and have the original screen saver for IBM with the eye ball and the bee flying around. I was just curious how to save it to keep the screen saver? Is it possible to save it without a set up file? I want to save it too disk so if the hard drive dies I got it backed up. Thanks!

Tommaso

Hi. I'm not sure, but I think that screensavers are SCR files in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder.

Great! I will try to copy it and see if I can save it so that it can be put on other Win95 systems I have.

Tommaso

May be because I'm still getting the hang of Vogons, here's my contribution to wallpapers and so.

Got some wallpapers and the screensaver from my IBM Aptiva 2137. It came with still the original installation.

The attached ZIP one contains these files:
- c:\startlogo.oem (Win 95 startup screen; not sure what it does or if it is special at all)
- c:\windows\IBMBLUE.BMP (nice low res background)
- c:\windows\OEMLOGO.BMP (full blown IBM background; my favourite)
- c:\windows\OEMWALL.BMP (small IBM logo)
- c:\windows\OEMINFO.INI (OEM info that should be displayed in computer properties)
- c:\windows\system\IBM.SCR (IBM Eye Bee M screensaver)
Please note I have copied them from an old hard disk and zipped them. Checked fo virusses at my Win10 computer with Windows defender (none detected), but further as is. Use at your own risk.

Originally posted in another thread:
IBM Aptiva 2137 - IBM theme files found!

The download:
download/file.php?id=85624

This is my first post here, I’ve found this place very helpful and a lot of fun actually. I recently got a 486 going for DOS games and to generally play around on. I don’t use Windows 3.1 very often but I wanted a 256 colour 486 themed Wallpaper for it. I’m not an artist but I made one based off what the back of the processor looks like. Thought I’d share it here.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2019-06-04, 01:33:

It was actually pretty easy. An IT team of about 10-15 people would administer about 5 Sun campuses and thousands of workstation […]
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gca wrote:

retropol wrote:

remember this - called CDE, was working on such thing in AT&T 😁 looong time ago...

CDE, luxury! When I was working for SUN itself we had to contend with openwin and the command line. The stuff we were working with struggled even with that!

It was actually pretty easy.
An IT team of about 10-15 people would administer about 5 Sun campuses and thousands of workstations and servers.
Sun had their own home grown Ticket system and users would submit a ticket to have there computer problems fixed.
Administering Sun computers remotely with Xhost and telnet.
Remote installations with Jumpstart.
All the user accounts where on a server. So they just needed to be mounted.
Nothing was kept locally on the the computers. Everything was on there home directories on a server.
CDE and Sun Solaris 2.5 and 2.6
Personally I prefer Openwin and virtual desktop manager.
Sun had a program for IT department called “Sun on Sun”
Where Sun was going to get off MS-Windows computers and have all of Sun Microsystems on Sun Solaris 2.6.
It was easy. Jump starting hundreds of computers over night with a perl script wrapper.

That’s why I got into Sun computer because administering them was so easy.
HP-9000 computers are the same way.
I love UNIX. It’s so easy once you get the hang of it.
This is also why I got into Apple OSX computers because they basically run UNIX.
I use to like to watch TV with SunTV app on my free time.
I was NOT a SUN employee. Just Sun Microsystems enthusiast and UNIX and HPUX and Sun Solaris certification program student.

Ahh, but that era of Silicon Valley is long gone. ( 1980’s thru 1990’s ).
Today it’s all Apple, Google, Oracle, Facebook, and Amazon.

Fellow UNIX lover here! Do you have any more screencaps from the good ol' days? I would love to see some old X11 programmes (such as the pictured XVFileManager) that were used in the day but are all but forgotten now..

Compaq 640x480:

Compaq 800x600:

Compaq 1024x768:

Dell 800x600:

Dell 1024x768:

Dell 1280x1024:

Fujitsu 640x480:

Fujitsu 800x600:

IBM 640x480:

IBM 800x600:

IBM 1024x768:

Micron 1024x768:

Nec 640x480:

Nec 800x600:

Nec 1024x768:

Fujitsu Siemens 800x600:

Sony 800x600:

Sony 1024x480:

Sony 1024x768: