How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
(OP)
Hi,
a long time ago I purchased Mathcad 6.0 - student version. Last time I used it was a few computers ago and obviously some years ago. I dusted off the 7 disks, searched for my external "floppy" drive and hooked it up to my new laptop naively hoping it would install without any issues.
And of course the first message that came up was that the windows version is not compatible.
Is it worth the effort to try and contact PCL to find out if it is possible to run it on my new lap top (windows xp) or maybe I would get a discount for an upgrade. What is the best way to contact them?
Thanks
a long time ago I purchased Mathcad 6.0 - student version. Last time I used it was a few computers ago and obviously some years ago. I dusted off the 7 disks, searched for my external "floppy" drive and hooked it up to my new laptop naively hoping it would install without any issues.
And of course the first message that came up was that the windows version is not compatible.
Is it worth the effort to try and contact PCL to find out if it is possible to run it on my new lap top (windows xp) or maybe I would get a discount for an upgrade. What is the best way to contact them?
Thanks





RE: How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
Have you tried to run it in Win95 compatibility mode?
Also, it's possible that you can get the XP runtime emulation for your laptop and run it as a subprocess, but, realistically, v6 dates from Win95, and few things from that era can still run on current versions of Windows.
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RE: How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
I still run MathCAD 6 on 32 bit XP machine. I think the clue is in the 32 bit format. I can also confirm that it works fine on Win 98 second edition (as back up machine) MathCAD 6 is very limited.
I also have MathCAD 2000 - absolutly superb. Has earned me a small fortune. Runs on both XP 32 bit and Win 98 second edition.
Have MathCAD 14 - which I don't particularly like: only purchased to run with Roark and Young. Still consider that MathCAD 2000 best version.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Ed
Ed Clymer
Resinfab & Associates
England
RE: How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
There is a video that shows how to install and use it. I have been running Visio 4 (pre Microsoft, now 15 years old) and Quickbooks 2004 and several other non-Windows 7 compatible programs without issue. You can even use the compatibility mode in Windows XP mode, so my guess is that anything from DOS on should run.
RE: How to get Mathcad 6.0 on my new computer?
You could multi-boot Win 98 if you wanted to. Multi-booting and XP Mode both work for me when running old software. I still multi-boot because I like to mess around with various versions of Linux and it runs faster than a virtual machine.