My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!

I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00

So now I have internet access at the shop again.


Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!

WOOO HOOOO!

Tim wrote:
My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!

I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00

So now I have internet access at the shop again.


Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!

WOOO HOOOO!

Isn't compassion wonderful?

On Aug 20, 9:04*am, H the K wrote:
Tim wrote:
My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!

I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00

So now I have internet access at the shop again.

Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!

WOOO HOOOO!

Isn't compassion wonderful?

Compassion?

Good Deals!

It does all I want or need to do. and I dont' ahve to spend boodles
jost to have the latest.

Tim wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:04 am, H the K wrote:
Tim wrote:
My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!
I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00
So now I have internet access at the shop again.
Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!
WOOO HOOOO!
Isn't compassion wonderful?

Compassion?

Good Deals!

It does all I want or need to do. and I dont' ahve to spend boodles
jost to have the latest.



Hell, I would have given you a pentium class box with XP Pro on it for
zip. I have compassion.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:26:28 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Tim wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:04 am, H the K wrote:
Tim wrote:
My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!
I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00
So now I have internet access at the shop again.
Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!
WOOO HOOOO!
Isn't compassion wonderful?

Compassion?

Good Deals!

It does all I want or need to do. and I dont' ahve to spend boodles
jost to have the latest.



Hell, I would have given you a pentium class box with XP Pro on it for
zip. I have compassion.

Isn't that a liberating gesture, showing compassion without being
compelled by government fiat to be "compassionate"?

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On Aug 20, 10:26*am, H the K wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:04 am, H the K wrote:
Tim wrote:
My Dad's old computer quit and the local computer geek gave me a *new*
Windows 98 machine and installed my hard drive in it for all of 30
bucks!
I got a Compaq FS7600 monitor a few months ago for $15.00
So now I have internet access at the shop again.
Man, 45 bucks and I'm ready to go!
WOOO HOOOO!
Isn't compassion wonderful?

Compassion?

Good Deals!

It does all I want or need to do. and I dont' ahve to spend boodles
jost to have the latest.

Hell, I would have given you a pentium class box with XP Pro on it for
zip. I have compassion.- Hide quoted text -

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Nobody wants your crap and all of the baggage that has to come with it.

On Aug 20, 11:54*am, wrote:

There are some great deals on P4 machines with licensed copies of XP
Pro on the surplus web sites ($80-100). (Gearxs, PCSurplus etc)
The XP is worth that by itself.They come with the disk wiped clean but
you can call the manufacturer with the S/N and get the factory load CD
for a few bucks. Mine also came with the Windoze office suite and that
is worth about $100 too. The disk is pretty much a one click
installation and you get a new machine..- Hide quoted text -

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I'll kep tht in mind, but for now, I figguh I'm good to go for about
the next 5 years or so.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:47:16 -0400, wrote:

That's pretty much the way I felt when I scored this $90 Compaq XP
machine. I am still running W98 on 3 or 4 machines around here tho. My
wife and I have XP Pro on the two we use all the time. There just got
to be too many new things not supported on W98 and I was dragged
kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Win2K has got W98 beaten by the proverbial country mile, and you can
still get drivers for just about everything. It was a huge step
forward in reliability, ease of installation, processor support, you
name it. XP has a few nice features that I like but it was just a
small step for the average user.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:47:16 -0400, wrote:

That's pretty much the way I felt when I scored this $90 Compaq XP
machine. I am still running W98 on 3 or 4 machines around here tho. My
wife and I have XP Pro on the two we use all the time. There just got
to be too many new things not supported on W98 and I was dragged
kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Win2K has got W98 beaten by the proverbial country mile, and you can
still get drivers for just about everything. It was a huge step
forward in reliability, ease of installation, processor support, you
name it. XP has a few nice features that I like but it was just a
small step for the average user.


NT was geared more toward the business users. XP took NT's engine and made
it more consumer friendly, that's all. It's NT in a pretty package. Vista is
worse than Me was, and they tried to do the same thing. Me was designed to
pretty up win98... Vista tried to do the same thing with XP. Both OS's
failed miserably in their tasks.

I was a beta tester from Win95 thru Vista. They listened to us for bugs
(most times), but turned a deaf ear when it came to useability, and
important features. They must figure that they know what the people want
more than the people.

The last experience with vista turned me off MS beta testing for good. I
turned down an invite for Windows 7, but it looks like they're just doing a
public beta anyway. I LOVE the public betas... they get you hooked on it,
and it works (maybe), then you have to buy it before the beta you have
expires. g Else you can delete the whole shebang and reinstall your old
OS.

At least with XP and Vista the testers were given 5 valid install keys for
their troubles... and there were plenty. ;-)

I'm probably sticking with XP until they drop support for it.

--Mike

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:31:07 -0400, wrote:

My problem with XP is that it is such a resource hog.
If you don't need the features, why lug all that software around?.

It's kind of like the old IBM strategy where every new generation of
OS/MVS would force a hardware upgrade. :-)

If you think XP is a hog wait until you try Vista. The machine I'm
on now is a quad-core with 4 GB of RAM. Vista is running fine on
that.