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On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote: How is that kool ade? Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and hardware? True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore. My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it. She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25" floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever. You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard drive on a USB adapter or a card reader). I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine. That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things). I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network. There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms web site I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98 machine and the router came back to life. As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me. |
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I thought this was humorous...
On 3/10/14, 12:48 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote: How is that kool ade? Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and hardware? True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore. My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it. She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25" floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever. You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard drive on a USB adapter or a card reader). I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine. That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things). I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network. There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms web site I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98 machine and the router came back to life. As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me. If you don't have a NAS with RAID, you might consider getting one, and offloading all your media and other important files onto it. I keep all my digital music on our NAS, along with all photos, data files, word processing files, et cetera. I also keep current stuff on the computers themselves, for faster access, but I don't worry about a computer or drive crashing or a drive failing on the NAS. Synology makes excellent small servers, and there is actual *human* tech support available a number of ways, including via phone calls with techs who speak your variety of English. |
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#5
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I thought this was humorous...
On 3/10/2014 1:02 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:48:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote: How is that kool ade? Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and hardware? True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore. My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it. She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25" floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever. You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard drive on a USB adapter or a card reader). I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine. That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things). I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network. There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms web site I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98 machine and the router came back to life. As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me. You may just have a hardware problem with the ethernet adapter. Normally a W/98 machine is just plug and play on the network. If you are interested in using the machine you could try a slip install of W/98 but you will lose all of your updates unless you have them stored somewhere else. Not worth the effort. Once I have transferred anything she wants from it it's going in the dumpster. |
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#6
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I thought this was humorous...
On 3/10/14, 1:36 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/10/2014 1:02 PM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:48:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 12:19 PM, wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:04:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 3/10/2014 11:44 AM, wrote: How is that kool ade? Your machine is not going to burst into flames on April 8 and if your applications are not changing, why should you have to buy a new OS and hardware? True, but it's not long before you just can't do or view things anymore. My wife dug out an old computer that has Windows 98 on it. She had a bunch of pictures on it that she wanted but it wouldn't connect to the home network and I could not install a driver for a flash drive even though I found one and tried to install it via it's 3.25" floppy drive. I ended up transferring the pictures she wanted two at a time onto it's 3.25" floppy drive and then loading them into my much newer laptop using a portable, USB 3.25" floppy drive. Took forever. You just need nusb33e.exe to attach USB drives (thumb drive, hard drive on a USB adapter or a card reader). I have it running on my W/98 MP3 player and it works fine. That machine is also on my network, just like my W/98 machine that runs the scanner, and does my FAX stuff (among other things). I don't have a clue why it would not attach to your network. There is one issue I am aware of. On W/98, you need to go into network properties and set browse master to enable instead of automatic to get file sharing to go. It is spelled out in the knowledge base on the ms web site I don't know what the issue was with her Win98 computer. Not only would it not connect to our WiFi router, it also knocked the router off the air when I tried and none of our computers or devices would connect or even see the router. I didn't initially tie the two together and thought our router had crapped out again. Then I shut down the Win98 machine and the router came back to life. As I mentioned, I found the correct driver for the memory stick I was trying to use and downloaded it to a 3.25" floppy portable drive I have using a Vista computer. I then tried to install it on the Win98 machine and it wouldn't allow it. Beats me. You may just have a hardware problem with the ethernet adapter. Normally a W/98 machine is just plug and play on the network. If you are interested in using the machine you could try a slip install of W/98 but you will lose all of your updates unless you have them stored somewhere else. Not worth the effort. Once I have transferred anything she wants from it it's going in the dumpster. Hey...you could sell it to Gregg or Tim for $100.  |
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