Any version of the Windows operating system 95 or higher will work. They may be printed or viewed, but not edited or searched with a word processor. You can read all the text, but it is actually a scanned picture of the text pages. No, they are text only. If you want to see any of the drawings in a patent you must also have the image files.
Patents are too large to fit on a diskette and require more storage space than a diskette provides.
Windows 3.1 is no longer supported by our technical department with any of our products. This doesn't mean they won't work, but we will not guarantee them. OptiView DOES work to view the TIFF images on Windows 3.1, but the CD-ROMS can not always be read by Windows 3.1 computers. So we recommend you do not purchase them if you are using a Windows 3.1 system. This usually occurs if you try to access the patent in less than 20 second or so from the time you placed the order.