Win98 anyone?

[The Dude]

Win98se is being sold for $149 here (http://royaldiscount.com/wi98seedfuve1.html) (Its outta stock though @ the moment)

Win98 is being sold for $39.97 (http://royaldiscount.com/wi98fiedfuve.html) and is in stock.

Might be worth keeping these links Handy :)

[Mike Weins]

Well I'm not sure it will ever be "in stock" anywhere anymore.

I still have a partition that runs Win98SE. Hardly use it, but at least it's there :D

[Matt A]

:D I still have Win3.1 & Win3.5 on 5¼" floppys :D

95 on 3½s

98 & SE on CD

[annie]

i still have DOS 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, and 5.0 on floppy.

i think i still have CP/M someplace, but only for the Kapro/Osborne. definitely have that basic, so i must have at least the kernal.

[Matt A]

i still have DOS 2.1, 3.3, 4.1, and 5.0 on floppy.



I have them too, annie. Still have 3 drives in the graveyard too. Don't know if they'll work on these new machines though. Been over a dozen years since I've tried one and not sure about drivers for them. Last time I tried one was in a Dell 386/16 in about 1990 or so I think, back when the E in Dell still stood up straight. 386 processor-16mhz cost me $3,698 at the time.:eek: Top-of-the-line piece of machinery.;) The first home computer that could show a picture in full 16 tru-color with a decent dpi. It was unreal.

Ah, the Golden Age!:D Green screens, GWBasic, CGA(color graphic adapter), then VGA(video graphic adapter), then SVGA (SUPERVGA!!!), blazing 3mhz 8088 XT processor, kilobytes only-megabytes still only a dream.

Annie, you're one of the few others here that go back that far.

[annie]

I have them too, annie. Still have 3 drives in the graveyard too. Don't know if they'll work on these new machines though. Been over a dozen years since I've tried one and not sure about drivers for them. Last time I tried one was in a Dell 386/16 in about 1990 or so I think, back when the E in Dell still stood up straight. 386 processor-16mhz cost me $3,698 at the time.:eek: Top-of-the-line piece of machinery.;) The first home computer that could show a picture in full 16 tru-color with a decent dpi. It was unreal.

Ah, the Golden Age!:D Green screens, GWBasic, CGA(color graphic adapter), then VGA(video graphic adapter), then SVGA (SUPERVGA!!!), blazing 3mhz 8088 XT processor, kilobytes only-megabytes still only a dream.

Annie, you're one of the few others here that go back that far.

or at least one of the few who will admit it.

i was a teletype operator, so switching to punching paper tape to run on a computer was simple. 1968 maybe?

remember RPG? there are still banks using it.

i once could touchtype in APL, met ken ivers once.

worked on a trash 80 that saved onto a regular tape recorder. hum i think the operating system was on a tape also.

what had the first hard drive, the 286? how astonishing that was, not to have to run the operating system and your application from a 320 floppy. somehow we got DOS and WordStar all on a 320 floppy. that is 320 K for those of you who were not born yet then. they were a great step up from 160 K floppys.

i just last summer bought an HP with XP on it. for 600 dollars, including a good flat panel monitor. i remember when floppy disks cost that much.

do you suppose i should dump a drawerfull or so of the old programs i still have on 5-1/4 disks? especially since i have no access to anything that reads them?

[Matt A]

I don't know which computer had the first HD in it, but MY first computer to have one was the 286 in 1988. A MASSIVE 10mb beauty.:D (It was bigger than any combo-burner I own today!)

Be kind to the TRS annie. It served it's purpose way back.:rolleyes:

Got my start as a high school sophomore in '75 on the Wang2000.(yep, I'm still a pup). The FIRST pc, the granddaddy of them all. The one and only first self-contained, stand-alone, basic-language, cassette tape storage, portable:rolleyes: computer. It was the size of a desk, because it WAS a desk with the computer built right in to it.:D


Some of the floppies I have are starting to crystallize now. I keep them around just as showpieces for the younger kids to see. Even if you put them into a drive, they might just disintegrate. Keep them to show those whippersnappers the way we did things in the "auld daze" and survived it just fine.

[clouds z]

thats weird -i was just wondering if my win98 version is worth saving

whats so good about 98?

[clouds z]

i can get on internet and did and came here with win3.1 two years ago, if i use msn or some isp that allows it-mine wont now -they have thirer own dialer

its on a laptop and will read web pages if i put them on floppy

and i have a copy of windows 3.0 that i bought in 2000

[Mike Weins]

My first real computer was the Tandy 1000HX with an 8088 in it. Man that was one sweet computer.

Used to play Sid Meier's Pirates on the 5 1/4" floppies. My first modem I think was 3600 baud in the 1000 SX.

Now I'm "out of date" with a P4 2.8Mhz Asus P4PE with 512M ram, 1 80g hd, 1 60g hd, 1 cd burner, 1 3 1/2" floppy, and a Radeon 9250 video card with a cheap envision 19" flat screen monitor.

[annie]

as i recall, the trs 80 had no program storage and you had to type in a program every time you wanted to run it. then how could we compile? must have been basic. also the data. you could save your results or print them. much faster than doing the calculations on paper with a monroe calculator, typing a mimeograph stencil, and running it on a mimeograph.

the first time i saw braintalk was using 3.1, and i think it was possible using DOS 6.2 but never tried it. what was under windows 3.1? DOS 5 or 6? hated DOS 4.1 and 5 and went directly
to 6 from 3.3, the last thing i ever understood on a computer.

we had an IBM 360 with honeywell monitors. it was hooked up to a 2 byte modem. can that be? it had a 250 character buffer, which i routinely filled up instantly and had to go do something else until the buffer cleared. i once saw a chinese abacus expert do a numerical integration faster than the 360.

floppys are one problem. there is also the books. how about a copy of "Secrets of the DOS masters" which teaches you, in 400 pages, the secrets of using subdirectories instead of putting everything on the root directory. this revolution meant that you could put more than a hundred files on your computer, all at the same time. DOS 2.2 i think.

ah, what a fossil i am.

[Matt A]

Now I'm "out of date" with a P4 2.8Mhz Asus P4PE with 512M ram, 1 80g hd, 1 60g hd, 1 cd burner, 1 3 1/2" floppy, and a Radeon 9250 video card with a cheap envision 19" flat screen monitor.

And you call yourself an administrator?:eek:
You should be ashamed of yourself.:mad:



:D :D :D :D :D

[TC44]

"Insufficient memory. This program requires 45k free memory to run."

[clouds z]

in 2000 i think i bought a tandy used,same one i bet and i took it all apart

i had 36 old computers and 6 monitors

i was crazy

[annie]

"Insufficient memory. This program requires 45k free memory to run."

that is not so funny. i know people who are getting that message with enormous up to date things.

i nearly was getting it when i had norton attacking me.

and come to think of it, you still get this message if you overload notepad:

"Insufficient memory. This program requires 25k free memory to run"

[TC44]

Not my fault. I swear !

[Matt A]

"Insufficient memory. This program requires 45k free memory to run."

I get this message when I try to do too much thinkin' these days!!:D :D

[Matt A]

that is not so funny. i know people who are getting that message with enormous up to date things.

i nearly was getting it when i had norton attacking me.

and come to think of it, you still get this message if you overload notepad:

"Insufficient memory. This program requires 25k free memory to run"

It would take quite a large document for me to overload notepad Annie. I have almost 1,700k free memory to work with right now.

[nide44]

thats weird -i was just wondering if my win98 version is worth saving

whats so good about 98?
I'm at work, working with 98 (SE) this very moment.
I have XP @ home and don't like it as much. No Scandisk
or other tools to try to figure out what's wrong and try to
fix it yourself. Too 'dumbed down'. (but I still don't know 95%
of what's happenin')

[annie]

Not my fault. I swear !

of course it is your fault. everything is your fault. who told you different?

I get this message when I try to do too much thinkin' these days!!:D :D

you're not alone. i just never get an error message, probably don't have enough memory. but we know whose fault this is.

It would take quite a large document for me to overload notepad Annie. I have almost 1,700k free memory to work with right now.

well looky looky. matt i just switched from 98 to XP and am still getting many surprizes. in 98 notepad still had a 25 k limit and if you tried to put more in it it gave you an error message. i use notepad all the time. but i just played around with it and it let me paste more than 400 k into it. hum i didn't try to reopen. did it. i have tho i think in XP been told that something is too large to open in notepad do i want to use wordpad. but I Can Be Wrong.

(but I still don't know 95% of what's happenin')

you understand five percent? wow.the last time i understood anything about a computer i was working with DOS 3.3 and i don't think i understood five percent of that.

[The Dude]

Well I'm not sure it will ever be "in stock" anywhere anymore.Its in stock now!!

http://store.royaldiscount.com/wi98seedfuve.html

And its down to $79.88!!

EDIT:

$45 from here!!!!

http://www.esuperdeal.com/cgi-bin/ait-detail.asp?product_no=465&menu_no=11