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Mr. Luddite

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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