Dinosaur Sighting: Microsoft Bob

I'd like to work on Bob 2012. I talked to a worker at the Microsoft Museum (Redmond) in the 1990s and made a plea for them to display Bob. On a later visit there was the box! If you read the reviews for Bob, it worked good if you had a fast computer but Microsoft pushed it onto low end computers - Microsoft made the same mistake with Vista! Vista would have been better received if they hadn't pushed it onto computers that couldn't run it.

I cut my teeth on DOS.
I have a 'virgin' shrink wrapped copy of BOB
with the book. Just too much else to do than
mess with BOB. Maybe if the main desktop could
stay and a list of Batch calls be placed in a white box in a corner. So you have Windoze w/o the icons. You just can't put but so many
meaningful icons on the BOB desktop.

"Just because I've got a 500GB drive doesn't mean they have the right to fill the damned thing up with drivel!"

How true. Can't help wondering how Windows would have developed if the HD makers hadn't kept finding ways of increasing capacity, though. While I love having the space (my present HD is 10,000x bigger than the one I had 20 years ago) there would be a lot less bloat about if that hadn't happened...