Last updated: 2025-07-07
My collection of computer operating systems can be broken down into seven families.
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icon to download the particular operating system from my library on the Internet Archive.
Titles marked with 
or shipped in one or more standard or double width CD jewel cases respectively.
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icon for corresponding WikiPedia articles.
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Be, Inc. BeOS 3.0 for Intel (Incomplete set. PowerPC version CD missing.) - ATPM review - September 1998 |
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Retail | 1998 | 1 Floppy 1 CD |
| Be, Inc. BeOS 4.0 for Intel and PowerPC |
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Retail | 1998 | 1 Floppy 1 CD |
| Be, Inc. BeOS 4.5.2 for Intel and PowerPC - InfoWorld overview - August 9, 1999 |
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Retail | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Be, Inc. BeOS 5.0.3 Pro for Intel and PowerPC (GoBe Software Release.) - PC Magazine overview - May 23, 2000 - Run in VirtualBox (PDF) |
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Retail | 2000 | 1 CD |
| Haiku Release 1 Beta 3 for Intel |
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Magazine Cover Disc |
2021 | 1 DVD |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Digital Research DR DOS 6.0 |
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Retail Big Box |
1991 | 4 Floppies |
| FreeDOS Project FreeDOS 0.8 |
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Dell OEM |
2002 | 1 CD |
| IBM PC DOS 7 |
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Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 |
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OEM | 1994 | 4 Floppies |
| Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 |
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Gateway 2000 OEM |
1994 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 |
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Micron OEM |
1994 | 1 CD |
| Novell DOS 7 |
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Retail Big Box |
1993 | 7 Floppies |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Caldera Network Desktop 1.0 (Kernel 1.2.13) |
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Retail Big Box |
1996 | 2 Floppies 1 CD |
| Caldera OpenLinux Base 1.1 (Kernel 2.0.29) |
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Retail Big Box |
1997 | 1 CD |
| Caldera OpenLinux Lite (Kernel 2.0.29) |
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Retail | 1997 | 1 CD |
| Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 (Kernel 2.0.35) |
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Retail | 1998 | 1 CD |
| Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (Kernel 2.2.5) |
|
Retail Big Box |
1999 | 1 Floppy 2 CDs |
| Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 (Kernel 2.2.10) |
|
Retail Big Box |
1999 | 1 Floppy 3 CDs |
| Caldera OpenLinux eServer 2.3 (Kernel 2.2.14) |
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Retail | 2000 | 1 CD |
| Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 (Kernel 2.2.14) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2000 | 1 Floppy 4 CDs |
| Corel Linux Deluxe (Kernel 2.2.12) |
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Retail Big Box |
1999 | 1 Floppy 5 CDs |
| Corel Linux Second Edition Deluxe (Kernel 2.2.16) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2000 | 1 Floppy 6 CDs |
| Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (Kernel 2.2.12) |
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Retail Big Box |
1999 | 1 CD |
| Fedora Workstation 25 (Kernel 4.8.6) |  |
Retail | 2016 | 1 DVD |
| Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Kernel 2.6.15) |
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Retail | 2006 | 1 CD |
| LindowsOS 4.5 (Kernel 2.4.23) |
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Magazine Cover Disc |
2003 | 1 CD |
| Linspire Live 5.0 (Kernel 2.6.10) |
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Retail | 2005 | 1 CD |
| Linux Mandrake 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.9) |
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Retail | 1999 | 2 CDs |
| Linux Mandrake 7.0 PowerPack (Kernel 2.2.14) |
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Retail Big Box |
2000 | 6 CDs |
| Mandrake Linux 8.0 PowerPack (Kernel 2.4.3) |
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Retail Big Box |
2001 | 7 CDs |
| Mandrake Linux 9.0 PowerPack (Kernel 2.4.19) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2003 | 7 CDs |
| Mandrake Linux 10.0 PowerPack (Kernel 2.6.3) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2004 | 6 CDs |
| Mandriva Linux 2006 PowerPack (Kernel 2.6.12) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2006 | 2 DVDs |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (Kernel 2.6.9) |
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Retail | 2007 | 1 DVD |
| Red Hat Linux 4.0 (Kernel 2.0.18) |
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Retail Big Box |
1996 | 2 CDs |
| Red Hat PowerTools 5.1 for Linux - Red Hat Linux 5.1 for Alpha (Kernel 2.0.34) - Red Hat Linux 5.1 for Intel (Kernel 2.0.34) - Red Hat Linux 5.1 for SPARC (Kernel 2.0.34) |
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Retail | 1998 | 6 CDs |
| Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.36) |
|
Retail Big Box |
1998 | 1 Floppy 3 CDs |
| Red Hat Linux 6.2 Professional (Kernel 2.2.14) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2000 | 1 Floppy 9 CDs |
| Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal (Kernel 2.4.18) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2002 | 8 CDs |
| Red Hat Linux 8.0 Professional (Kernel 2.4.18) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2002 | 8 CDs 1 DVD |
| Red Hat Professional Workstation (Kernel 2.4.21) - based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 |
|
Retail Big Box |
2003 | 9 CDs |
| Linux Slackware 3.2 (Kernel 2.0.29) |
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Retail | 1997 | 4 CDs |
| Linux Slackware 3.3 (Kernel 2.0.30) |
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Retail Big Box |
1997 | 4 CDs |
| Slackware Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.13 |
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Retail | 1999 | 4 CDs |
| Slackware Linux 8.1 (Kernel 2.4.18) |
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Retail | 2002 | 4 CDs |
| Storm Linux 2000 (Kernel 2.2.14) |
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Retail | 2000 | 1 CD |
| Sun Microsystems Java Desktop System 2003 (Kernel 2.4.19) |
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Retail | 2003 | 6 CDs |
| S.u.S.E. Linux 1.0.9 (Kernel 1.0.9) |
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Retail | 1994 | 2 CDs |
| S.u.S.E. Linux 4.3 (Kernel 2.0.21) |
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Retail | 1996 | 4 CDs |
| S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 (Kernel 2.0.35) - First distro to ship KDE Desktop 1.0. |
|
Retail Big Box |
1998 | 5 CDs |
| SuSE Linux 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2000 | 6 CDs |
| SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (Kernel 2.4.19) (Powered by United Linux 1.0) |
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Retail | 2002 | 4 CDs |
| SuSE Linux Professional 8.1 (Kernel 2.4.19) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2002 | 7 CDs 1 DVD |
| Novell SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 (Kernel 2.6.8) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2004 | 5 CDs 2 DVDs |
| Novell SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 (Kernel 2.6.11) |
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Retail | 2005 | 5 CDs 2 DVDs |
| Novell SUSE Linux 10.1 (Kernel 2.6.16) |
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Retail Big Box |
2006 | 6 CDs 1 DVD |
| Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 (Kernel 2.6.16) |
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Retail | 2007 | 12 CDs |
| TurboLinux TurboCluster Server 4.0 (Kernel 2.2.12) |
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Eval | 1999 | 1 CD |
| TurboLinux Workstation 4.0 (Kernel 2.2.12) |
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Retail Big Box |
1999 | 3 Floppies 3 CDs |
| TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.13) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2000 | 3 Floppies 3 CDs |
| Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Kernel 2.6.15) |  |
Retail | 2006 | 1 CD |
| VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 (Kernel 2.4.21) |
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Retail | 2005 | 1 CD |
| Fedora Workstation 30 (Kernel 5.0) Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop (Kernel 5.0) |
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Magazine Cover Disc |
2019 | 1 DVD Dual-sided |
| Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe (Kernel 2.6.9) |
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Retail Big Box |
2004 | 2 CDs |
| Xandros Desktop 4.0 Home Edition Premium (Kernel 2.6.15) |
|
Retail | 2006 | 2 CDs |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Novell NetWare 3.12 |
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Retail | 1994 | 1 CD |
| Novell NetWare 4.1 includes NetWare 4.1 for IBM OS/2 |
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Retail | 1994 | 2 CDs |
| Novell IntranetWare 4.11 |
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Retail | 1996 | 4 CDs |
| Novell NetWare 5 |
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Eval | 1998 | 2 CDs |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| IBM OS/2 2.0 |  |
Retail Big Box |
1992 | 21 Floppies |
| IBM OS/2 2.11 |
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Retail Big Box |
1993 | 4 Floppies 1 CD |
| IBM OS/2 Warp 3 (Red Spine) | |
Retail Big Box |
1994 | 2 Floppies 2 CDs |
| IBM OS/2 Warp 3 Connect (Blue Spine) |
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Retail Big Box |
1995 | 2 Floppies 3 CDs |
| IBM OS/2 Warp 3 Connect (Red Spine) | |
Retail Big Box |
1995 | (Sealed) |
| IBM OS/2 Warp 4 |
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Retail Big Box |
1996 | 3 Floppies 3 CDs |
| IBM OS/2 Warp 4 Server Advanced |
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Retail Big Box |
1995 | 2 Floppies 2 CDs |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Apple OPENSTEP 4.2 |
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Retail | 1997 | 3 Floppies 4 CDs |
| Compaq Tru64 UNIX 5.1A |
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Retail Big Box |
2001 | 9 CDs |
| Digital OpenVMS AXP 6.1-1H2 - FreeAXP - A Free Virtual Alpha |
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Retail | 1994 | 1 CD |
| Digital OpenVMS Alpha 7.1 - FreeAXP - A Free Virtual Alpha |
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Retail Big Box |
1996 | 5 CDs 1 Floppy |
| Hewlett-Packard HP-UX 11.0 |
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Retail | 1999 | 9 CDs |
| IBM AIX 4.3.2 - IBM Documentation |
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Retail | 1998 | 7 CDs |
| IBM AIX 5L 5.3 - IBM Documentation |
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Retail | 2004 | 8 CDs |
| NetBSD 1.5.2 (Wasabi Systems Release) |
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Retail Big Box |
2002 | 5 CDs |
| NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.3 for Intel and NeXT 68K |
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Retail | 1994 | 3 Floppies 1 CD |
| NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC and PA-RISC |
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Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Novell UnixWare 2.01 Application Server - PC Magazine Network Edition overview - May 1995 - Tech Monitor news - January 1995 - Computerworld - November 1994 - Novell Support: Installing and Configuring UnixWare 2.0 |
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Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| OpenBSD 2.6 |
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Retail | 1999 | 2 CDs |
| QNX Neutrino Real-Time OS 6.3.0 SP3 |
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Retail | 2006 | 1 CD |
| SCO OpenServer 5.0 |
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Retail Big Box |
1995 | 4 Floppies 3 CDs |
| SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 |
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Retail | 1997 | 1 CD |
| SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 |
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Retail Big Box |
1998 | 6 CDs |
| SCO UnixWare 2.1.2 Free Edition - Press Release - April 1997 (mirror) - Technical Summary - February 1996 |
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Retail | 1997 | 2 Floppies 2 CDs |
| SCO UnixWare 7.1 - IT World Canada overview - March 1999 - Computerworld review - April 1999 - Fun With Virtualization: Unixware 7.1.1 - August 2010 - Fun With Virtualization: Revisiting a UnixWare 7.1.1 install on Qemu/KVM - January 2018 |
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Retail | 1999 | 3 Floppies 6 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris 2008.11 for Intel |
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Retail | 2008 | 1 CD 1 DVD |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1 Desktop for Intel |
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Retail Big Box |
1996 | 1 Floppy 2 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 7 for Intel and SPARC (10/98) |
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Retail | 1998 | 1 Floppy 3 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 7 Desktop for SPARC (11/99) |
|
Retail Big Box |
1999 | 10 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 for Intel (02/00) |
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Retail | 2000 | 1 Floppy 4 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 for SPARC (1/01) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2001 | 18 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 for SPARC (2/04) |
|
Retail Big Box |
2004 | 11 CDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 9 for Intel (8/03) | |
Retail Big Box |
2003 | 9 CDs 1 DVD |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 9 for SPARC (5/02) | |
Retail Big Box |
2002 | 20 CDs 1 DVD |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 for SPARC and Intel (1/06) |
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Retail | 2006 | 8 DVDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 for SPARC and Intel (6/06) | |
Retail | 2006 | 9 DVDs |
| Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 for Intel (5/09) |
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Retail | 2009 | 1 CD 2 DVDs |
| Title | Release | Year | Media | |
| Microsoft Windows 3.11 |
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Retail Big Box |
1994 | 7 Floppies |
| Microsoft Windows 3.1 |
|
Gateway 2000 OEM |
1993 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 |
|
Retail Big Box |
1993 | (Sealed) |
| Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 |
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OEM | 1993 | 8 Floppies |
| Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11 |
|
Gateway 2000 OEM |
1993 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 95 (RTM) |
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OEM | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade (RTM) |
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Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 95 |
|
OEM | 1996 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 95 with USB Support |
|
OEM | 1997 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 95 OSR 2.5 with Microsoft Plus! 95 |
|
OEM | 1997 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 98 |
|
OEM | 1998 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 98 Upgrade |
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Retail | 1998 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition |
|
OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade |
|
Retail | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition with Microsoft Plus! 98 |
|
OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition |
 |
OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Upgrade |
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Retail | 2000 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1 |
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Retail | 1994 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5 |
|
Retail | 1994 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5 |
|
Retail | 1994 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 |
|
OEM | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 |
|
Retail Big Box |
1995 | 3 Floppies 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51 Upgrade |
|
Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 |
|
Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51 Upgrade |
|
Retail | 1995 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 |
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OEM | 1996 | 3 Floppies 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 |
|
Retail Big Box |
1996 | (Sealed) + 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Upgrade |
|
Retail | 1996 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 includes Service Pack 4 CD includes Option Pack CD |
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OEM | 1996 | 3 Floppies 3 CDs |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 |
|
Retail | 1996 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition - Includes Service Pack 3 and FrontPage 97 |
|
Retail | 1997 | 2 CDs |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server RTM |
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OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 |
|
Volume License |
2003 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional RTM |
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Select | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4 |
|
OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server RTM |
|
Select | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4 |
|
OEM | 1999 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
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Volume License |
2001 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition |
|
Volume License |
2006 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 Upgrade |
|
Volume License |
2008 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment 1.1 (Based on Windows XP SP1) |
|
Volume License |
2001 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment 1.2 (Based on Windows Server 2003 RTM) |
|
Volume License |
2003 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition |
|
Volume License |
2003 | 1 CD |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2 |
|
Volume License |
2006 | 2 CDs |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter/Web Editions x64 |
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Volume License |
2009 | 1 DVD |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP1 x64 |
|
Volume License |
2011 | 1 DVD |
| Microsoft BackOffice 2.0 - InfoWorld review - May 27, 1996 |
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NFR | 1996 | 4 CDs |
| Microsoft BackOffice 2.5 |
|
Retail | 1996 | 4 CDs |
| Microsoft BackOffice Server 4.0 |
|
Retail | 1997 | 5 CDs |
| Microsoft BackOffice Server 4.5 Developer Edition |
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Retail | 1999 | 8 CDs |
| Microsoft BackOffice Server 2000 |
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NFR | 2000 | 10 CDs 1 DVD |
There are still a few operating systems I don't have yet. Donations are welcomed. :-)
