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VNC style remote access for Windows 3.11 ??

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groovin

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had to put a very old windows 3.11 machine back online because we need to grab data from it. Was wondering if there was any VNC style remote access available that can run on it (the box sits in a different office).

I know pcanywhere 5.0 works, but I dont think I can find that anyhwere....

any ideas? thanks.
 
thats what we're tryig to do... heres the problem... this box has some software on it from way back then. The data was archived off of it in the software vendors prorietary format, but in order to convert this data to somethign useful we needed to resurrect this box. (software only runs on 3.11). The box works, but is slow. Dont mind the slow part, but it would be nice to be able to check on it from a remote location.
 
Jeez. Why don't you just shoot yourself? It'll probably solve your problem faster and be less painless.

So much for propriatory formats. Something to look forward to 20-30 years from now when we'll have to deal with terrabytes of data encoded in crappy .doc files and encrypted PDF's.

Anyways.


Idea #1:
I am sure somewere, somebody created a device you could plug your VGA cable into a little box and send the data to the network. Of course with VNC and such it will probably be rare and expensive.

Idea#2:
Find somebody with space in his office or a hapless cubical dweller. Stick the computer in there, tell them to press enter every once of a while and page you if it craps out.

Idea#3:
Get a webcam, get a crappy laptop. Stick the crappy laptop and webcam in front of the computer and have it broadcast the images on your network.

Idea#4:
Probably the best one. Ditch the crappy computer. Run Win3.11 in a emulatory (? I am tired. emulation) and use VNC on the modern OS.

I suggest bocsh, it's a full PC emulation, meaning that the entire computer is emulated in software. From the disk drives, cdrom, floppy. Them memory is emulated in memory, the CPU is emulated. You even have software BIOSes for the Emulated computer and VGA. Best bet for compatability. And it's free.

But if you have VMWare laying around, run it in that. It'll probably be faster. Hell anything will be faster. Bosch on a modern computer will (probably) kick a 486 in the nuts in terms of performance.
 
thanks for the ideas drag. right now it looks like itll be idea #2 or #4. win 3.11... sheesh... i wasnt even in college at that time.
 
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