what a screw up that was, not only was it an all around ‘y2k’ style race for nothing, but it caused a net increase in electrical consumption.

I wish we could just dump DST once and for all, and just force the golfers to get up early on their own.

I still have J++ 1.1 from Visual Studio 97, along with PowerStation FORTRAN 4… In the box! But at the time, I did buy J++ as well, I still have the 1.1 disc, although I seem to have lost the box and all that… I think I was just blown away that it was so GREAT for creating GUI applications, but saddened that they only ran on the MS VM..

I bought J++.

I wangled a discount through my college bookstore (as a greedy alumni). I was learning Java at the time and I liked Microsoft’s JVM–it was much better on Windows than the Sun JVM (this was in part a source of their well-known legal problems.)

I liked the IDE.

My lesson in this is, when the landlord wants me to get rid of my old stuff, including my old copy of J++, that I at least spend the few minutes to image the CD’s and take photos of the collateral before tossing it.

I’m not sure how the “publisher’s version” is different from the paid version (which may have been $100 or so discounted to $50.)

That’s been my lesson to never sell shit ever again when I’m desperate for some cash.

this thing got over 1000 views… I think younger kids were thinking that Microsoft was going to enter the java foray, now knowing that Microsoft was there at the dawn with an implementation in 1997.

Now I just wish I saved those 1.0 MSDN/express edition things that were ~50MB, damn they were cool!