Amazon.com from 1998, running in Internet Explorer 5.
Hardware is a raspberry pi 4, emulation layer is Dosbox-X, web content provided by Wayback Machine via TheOldNet.com.
#Win98 #Windows98 #IE5 #InternetExplorer5 #RPi #RaspberryPi #Dosbox #TheOldNet
Getting the #Windows98 driver for the FEther PCC-TXF #PCMCIA network card installed on my 1996 #Thinkpad760CD and then configuring TCP/IP networking reminded me what an appalling, barely-working mess Windows was at the time when this hardware was new.
The OS hangs if the card is inserted before the driver is installed. Through repeated experimentation, I found a system state during probing for #PlugNPlay hardware when the OS would get most of the way through driver installation. After several attempts and many reboots, I was in a position to attempt to configure TCP/IP.
Turns out for DHCP and DNS to work, you need to give the machine a name and manually configure the DNS server and default route IP addresses.
What I found astonishing was the lack of feedback in any of this; no log files to inspect, no graphical tooling to renew an IP address. Just lots of poking in the dark and endless reboots.
#RetroComputing #Windows98 #InternetExplorer5 #IBM #Thinkpad #Thinkpad760CD #PCMCIA
Internet Explorer 5.0 sous MS-Windows 3.11.
Jason 🏴 🇨🇦 
Amin Girasol
Frederic Bezies