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Caluser2000

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Just been having a dig around researching some older Dos networking solutions and came across http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/index.shtml

It's now no longer developed but the owners saw the need to leave the software available for use for licensed users. Supports NetBios or Invisiblesofts own protocol. Was bundled with Invisiblesoft adapters (AD)but there in a version on the software that can be used with some common nic chipsets. Here's the revision history- http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/support_revisions.html

Anyone here use it in the past?

Had some cool stuff http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/software_remote.html
 
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That looks very interesting Cal. It wasn't immediately obvious what functions it provided. Unfortunately the only '95 and '98 machines I have are for collectible purposes and I don't really have the expertise to run them anyway. Hopefully one of our many Windows experts here will take up the torch and give us a report.

Also, I suppose they don't mind, but I don't actually think this is intended to be free software, :) because it says:
1. License. This software is provided for use by existing customers, dealers, distributors, and value-added resellers of Invisible Software products.
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PS: It seems there's been quite a few network related threads lately. Perhaps one of these days the subject, and this forum, will get big enough to get it's own category. :)
 
See my comment in the OP re licensed users. A dedicated network area would be good. Invisable LAN is for dos and win 3.x as well and that's the reason I was interested in knowing a bit more about it from someone may has actually used it in the past. http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/software_ilai.shtml I'm reading the manual at the moment http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/manual_software.html Looks like it's lot leaner than the MS or Novell clients. Not surprising considering it only supports two protocols and is suitable for 286s with LIM 4 support and 386s up with at least 2megs of ram.

The creators seemed to have a good sence of humour- http://www.invisiblesoft.com/invlan/support_year2000.html
 
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I still have my program disk and documentation for a very early "Invisible Network" product by these guys. Predates "Invisible LAN". It worked okay, but I didn't use it much.

Another product that I have is "The $25 Network" from IMODES. I found a disk image here. Uses serial ports for networking.
 
Chuck(G) said:
Another product that I have is "The $25 Network" from IMODES. I found a disk image here. Uses serial ports for networking.
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There were quite a few serial port networks "in the day"; I've got some Also-LAN stuff somewhere as well as Artisoft's original LANtastic (which survived for quite a while in its later incarnations). Compared to 'real' networks back then it was a much cheaper and simpler (albeit a bit slower) way of saving sneaker soles.

Don't know how well those old versions would work with a modern Windows though...
 
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MikeS said:
There were quite a few serial port networks "in the day"; I've got some Also-LAN stuff somewhere as well as Artisoft's original LANtastic (which survived for quite a while in its later incarnations). Compared to 'real' networks back then it was a much cheaper and simpler (albeit a bit slower) way of saving sneaker soles.
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PC Geos 2.0 on had serial networking as part of its' suite. I just find it quite interesting seeing what file/printer sharing methods/software/hardware were used on dos based systems in the past.

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Don't know how well those old versions would work with a modern Windows though...
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Might work ok via a VM.
 
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