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...*Detailed description*
_A detailed description of the Solution. Feel free to include links to further information (eg. OPF blog posts\!). Note that a Solution is a specific digital preservation application of a software tool or tools to a particular Issue with a particular Dataset. It might for example be a scripted tool, or a myExperiment workflow_
In order to view the material from the Dutch National Archive, I decided to try to create a virtual machine with the appropriate software from the late nineties, specifically a Virtual Box VM with:
* Windows 98
* Netscape Communicator 4.7
* Wordperfect 5.1 (DOS)
* Word 95
I'm going to document the process below as it might save somebody a little pain in future:
Setting up a usable Windows 98 VM in Virtual Box proved reasonably challenging. Installation was straightforward (the SE edition of 98 was the first to come with a bootable CD). Virtual Box booted from the ISO and the installation was complete in a few minutes. Unfortunately the machine ran horribly slowly at first, and a little reading revealed that this was due to the installs interpretation of the VB environment, specifically the APIC settings. Full details are explained on a VirtualBox forum [here | https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9918]
* Netscape Communicator 4.7
* Wordperfect 5.1 (DOS)
* Word 95
I'm going to document the process below as it might save somebody a little pain in future:
Setting up a usable Windows 98 VM in Virtual Box proved reasonably challenging. Installation was straightforward (the SE edition of 98 was the first to come with a bootable CD). Virtual Box booted from the ISO and the installation was complete in a few minutes. Unfortunately the machine ran horribly slowly at first, and a little reading revealed that this was due to the installs interpretation of the VB environment, specifically the APIC settings. Full details are explained on a VirtualBox forum [here | https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9918]
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