You asked for it. We listened. We’re proud to announce that Basecamp Enterprise Server for Windows NT is available for mail-order today!
It’s the Basecamp you know and love packed onto 37 easy-to-install 3.5 floppy disks. It’s as easy as A:\install.exe.
If you’re interested in purchasing Basecamp Enterprise Server for Windows NT just send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with $1,788 to:
37signals, ATTN: BCNT, 30 North Racine #200, Chicago, Illinois 60607 USA
37signals wrote this on Apr 01 2011 There are 56 comments.
Ryan Bradley 01 Apr 11
For a second there I thought you were almost serious, then I looked at the date. Nice Aprils fools, please tell me this is an April fools joke.
Ollie Judge 01 Apr 11
The sad thing is someone is actually going to send you their money.
Simon B 01 Apr 11
Who even has a floppy disk reader nowadays :-)
Jeff Mackey 01 Apr 11
Just ordered 37 copies.
Nick 01 Apr 11
... I remember it well …
Damien 01 Apr 11
Finally, you’re becoming entreprise-ready. It was about time.
Joe W. 01 Apr 11
Can you get this to work on Mac?
Scott 01 Apr 11
Please tell me Basecamp NT comes with printed documentation. If it does, I’m sold! I’ve tried printing and binding my own Basecamp manual compiled from Basecamp help online, but I’m getting tired of tearing all those perforated edges off the tractor-feed paper. Plus, every time you add more helpful information to the help site, I end up having to try to reprint my entire user manual.
hell-mikey 01 Apr 11
I’m sorry, but you overlooked adding a telex number for those of us who are international customers. Please address this post haste.
David 01 Apr 11
Awesomesauce! But what I really want is a version for Canterbury Linux! :D
Phil Lindsay 01 Apr 11
Awesome, any chance you can do a version that I can load onto my Acorn Electron? Kthxbai
Elpmis 01 Apr 11
One of the stupidest Google-copy 1st of April jokes I’ve ever seen
Thomas 01 Apr 11
The purpose of 1st April jokes is to be credible.
Ryan 01 Apr 11
Son, whenI was your age, we were HAPPY to have 1.44 megabyte floppy disks. Why, I remember the time when I had to install Microsoft Word. Remember that? Remember when you’d get to disk #103, and it would ask for disk #1 again, and you’d have to go rooting through the finished stack for the right disk? Oh, and of course you’d need to make backup copies of all those floppies, because you know, a stray magnetic field and disk #23 is toast. You’ve got to use the backups to do the actual install, and keep the original inside a lead vault, just in case.
Those were the days.
Anonymous Coward 01 Apr 11
Finally, a compelling reason for me to upgrade from NT 3 .51 to NT 4 .0 :)
Dominic Pettifer 01 Apr 11
WTF !!?? Windows NT!! Everybody is on Windows ME now, get with the times! Sheesh!
Kevin 01 Apr 11
Oh come on, it’s obviously been Photoshopped, i can tell by the pixels…
Bryan Sebastian 01 Apr 11
HAHAHA … well played!!!
This would have been really interesting if you had actually said you were releasing it for Windows Server 2008, Apache etc. But by not going “over the top” with it, people may have been mad that it was an April Fool’s joke.
Man, I remember shoving all those floppy’s into a computer to install NT and OS/2 Warp back in the day. I guess I am an “elder”... you know, he who speaks of floppys.
Right Agents 01 Apr 11
f-ck you april fools :-P
Bill B 01 Apr 11
Wow, I unlocked Gantt charts as an Easter egg!
Adam Schwartz 01 Apr 11
Didn’t fool me. My Chrome “April Fools Detector” plugin warned me.
Here’s a 45-second demo for how it works: http://www.screenr.com/GOP
Ima Schmucker 01 Apr 11
Where can I reach the returns department? I just dropped an envelope in the mail box and I’m like waiiit a minute… that’s a joke right? Ha, well looks like I will call the bank to cancel that check! Hahahaa.
Igor Evsukov 01 Apr 11
Finally!!!
God heard my prayers and You’ve made it.
Really guys, appreciate a lot.
P.S.: 1000-pages manual will be included in bundle or sold separately?
Jack 01 Apr 11
$1788 is very reasonable, how much for the support contract :-)
Benjamin Manns 01 Apr 11
Uhh… $1,788 for Basecamp is a steal.
Ben Kinnaird 01 Apr 11
I am disappointed that Apple was not your chosen launch platform – It’s just like 37s to overlook such a strong contingent… :)
Spicer Matthews 01 Apr 11
Made me laugh!!!
DONALD L SCHENCK 01 Apr 11
Oh man; What’s REALLY funny about this is that I’m been “goofing around” with an old NT 3 .5 box the past few weeks, and just last night got an old copy if IE running on it. In the process of testing it, I visited basecamphq.com …
AND IT WORKED !
So, I don’t need the AFD “Server” version! HA HA
Dmitry Mazin 01 Apr 11
I’m curious if someone actually asked for it. That would be mind-blowing.
Mike Sax 01 Apr 11
One question before I order: How much shipping will you charge per service pack?
Berserk 01 Apr 11
Related to Mike’s question; I expect to be able to upgrade in perpetuality, is that correct?
Otto 01 Apr 11
What if I only want five signals? Do I have to buy all 37?
Slavo 01 Apr 11
That’s just too obvious a joke for your audience, guys. The community is not that naive… (or am I hugely mistaken?)
Andy Ellis 01 Apr 11
At last you have realised what you need to do to be be a proper player in the business software market. You might just make it after all. We are just upgrading to NT so this is great timing.
Ralph 01 Apr 11
That’s funny. Except that it reminded me that my company still manages work orders using an add-in written for Lotus123 97 that runs on a PC running NT. Now I’m depressed again.
Calin 01 Apr 11
Yo, up there, here down ther in eastern europe we still run pc on ms-dos stuff, can you please make a version for this outsanding os?
David Andersen 01 Apr 11
Wow, there’s a killjoy in every crowd.
Bram 01 Apr 11
One April, frog in your ass, as we say in Holland. ;)
Adrian 01 Apr 11
I knew I kept that NT machine around for a reason. Please send via Pony Express ASAP .
Peter Matuchniak 01 Apr 11
What about Windows 3.11? Not everyone has upgraded to Windows NT you know!
John E. Bredehoft 01 Apr 11
Jim Ulvog linked to a number of today’s press releases, but this one is obviously the best. My only question – what’s that five digit number after the city and state? Is that some special part of the address?
In addition, if anyone could tell me how to convert floppy disc contents to punched card format, I would REALLY appreciate it. Just call your Bell System operator and ask to speak to John in Ontario, California. Thanks in advance.
Benjamin 01 Apr 11
It’s about time! I can’t stand web-based software and I never bought one of those dreadful CD-ROM drives. The software quality is lower on CDs than it is on a floppy disk.
Josh 01 Apr 11
If anybody is smart enough to pay for this, BC should keep the money.
sean 01 Apr 11
I like the fact that the disks get smaller as they get deeper in the stack.
Daniel 01 Apr 11
Thankfully you guys used Maxell. I was worried for a minute it’d be an off-brand. Now I just have to trade in my 3.5” external 160GB hard drive for a new 3.5” floppy drive and I can place my order in confidence. Oh, do the disks comes in green? Thanks!
warambil 01 Apr 11
Another joke right?
Dave Reynolds 01 Apr 11
You guys crack me up. Any idea how many morons are buying USB floppy drives now?
Anonymous Coward 02 Apr 11
Good ol’ NT
Devang Kamdar 02 Apr 11
Please share the strategies you used to come up with that magig number – $1,788
Russell Sheffield 02 Apr 11
Can I buy a copy on 5 1/4” media?
Horia Dragomir 02 Apr 11
Awesome!
I tried to post this comment yesterday, but the site loaded very slow on my NT box, but here I am now.
I cannot wait for the floppies to arrive via mail. I feel much more at home with mail than that new thing, E-mail I think they call it, by the way!
Thank you so much for making my voice count!
Krystian Brodowski 02 Apr 11
Good old Windows NT. I remember how we worked on it in school. Those were the days. There was no Internet in every home, and YouTube was just started :)
By the way – do you ship to Poland? ;)
Anonymous 02 Apr 11
Will it blend?
Anon 03 Apr 11
You also need to print a 800 page Patterns & Practises “Architectural Guidance” for developers to build applications on this. And make sure you update versions before folks have finished reading it.
ShallowRed 04 Apr 11
Can I get it on 5.1/2 Floppies?
Gregory Hernandezg 04 Apr 11
Any chance you could re-write the app in Modula-2 so I could run in on my Apple IIGS ?
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