I've been telling people for years that TCM is my favorite software purchase of all time, and the oldest one still in daily operation. But I forgot exactly when I bought it. I never thought to look at the timestamp on my WinCmd.key.
According to the time stamp, I bought my license in May of 1997. I got Lic #14140, and I still have the original diskette of Version 3.02 with the hand-written license number, too! I wonder if 3.02 would even run on Windows 10, if I could find a floppy disk drive that still operated? I think it just might.
Image: https://willcad.org/images/TotalCommanderDisk.jpg
I was another user of Norton Commander in the DOS days, and continued to use it in a DOS window inside of Windows 3.1. But that grew tiresome after a while, so I searched online and found Windows Commander. Never looked back. It's still basically the same application, but with a couple of hundred additional capabilities thrown in. At 6.2mb it's a little too large to fit on a 1.44mb diskette any more, but we all tend to gain a little weight as we age. It still doesn't require admin rights to install, and is low-profile enough to run on fairly locked down system, or even from portable media like a flash drive.
I'll keep using it as long as Christian keeps updating it, and probably for quite a few years afterward.
According to the time stamp, I bought my license in May of 1997. I got Lic #14140, and I still have the original diskette of Version 3.02 with the hand-written license number, too! I wonder if 3.02 would even run on Windows 10, if I could find a floppy disk drive that still operated? I think it just might.
Image: https://willcad.org/images/TotalCommanderDisk.jpg
I was another user of Norton Commander in the DOS days, and continued to use it in a DOS window inside of Windows 3.1. But that grew tiresome after a while, so I searched online and found Windows Commander. Never looked back. It's still basically the same application, but with a couple of hundred additional capabilities thrown in. At 6.2mb it's a little too large to fit on a 1.44mb diskette any more, but we all tend to gain a little weight as we age. It still doesn't require admin rights to install, and is low-profile enough to run on fairly locked down system, or even from portable media like a flash drive.
I'll keep using it as long as Christian keeps updating it, and probably for quite a few years afterward.
Statistics: Posted by WillCAD — 2024-06-19, 15:58 UTC