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echo: windows
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Alan Zisman
date: 2013-02-27 12:20:10
subject: Windows 3.1, Photoshop 4.0 and DropBox

On 2013-01-29 10:20 PM, Kurt Weiske -> All wrote:

 KW> Also, I ran into Calmira, a tool to skin Windows 3.1 to look like Windows
 KW> 95/XP. kooky!

I quite liked Calmira... Around 1999/2000 or so, I was asked to help a school make
use of an abandoned IBM Thinkpad laptop found in a drawer. A 486 processor,
8MB (!) of RAM, Win 3.1 and MS Office 6.0 installed.

I added Calmira and another utility that added a sort of long file name
support and it suddenly felt much more modern - very quick boot time
(including loading Windows) compared to systems of that era.

Suddenly, folks wanted to use the laptop.

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