That really doesn't mean a whole lot, other than the system was sold as an "office machine". A Pentium 133 is old enough that unless it says so specifically the version of NT released when that sticker was applied was 3.51. NT 4.0 was the first version of NT to have anything approaching a "long" run as the top OS in its line, lasting from mid-1996 up to early 2000. (3.1 through 3.51 each lasted only about a year.)The PI I have has a "Made for NT" sticker on it.
It boggles my mind that IBM would bother making drivers for systems as late as the T43 but, sure, there they are.Enough that the next system I want to get to run NT4 is a Thinkpad Z60t, which should run it more or less acceptably on the wire using all the drivers from the non-p version of the ThinkPad T43, which if I'm calculating correctly, has the same chipset, graphics, sound, and ethernet.
It looks like some third-party companies released their own USB stacks for Windows NT. So, well, good luck. Sounds like mass storage is almost certainly doable, but anything "special"... probably not.When I last tried getting USB to function in NT 4.0, all I was able to do was get input devices recognized. I specifically needed to get a USB colorimeter and mass storage devices to work, but I didn't have success with either. Have there been improvements since then?
Do you still have a copy of this disk? If so, I'd like to give it a try. I do have a proper NT 4 license key for it, so no piracy here, I don't think.USB drivers exist for NT 4.0 and work very well. I had NT 4.0 SMP running on a Core2Duo E6700 and needed the USB drivers for the keyboard and mouse, it...... flew. I followed a long list of directions to create a NT 4.0 SP6 slipstreamed disc with modern drivers (UniATA in particular), it seemed to work pretty well installing after that.