On 4/3/14, 4:13 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:13:31 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 1:05 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:26:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/3/14, 12:21 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:33:27 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

...is about to be orphaned, Newegg has a slight discount on
legitimate replacements:

http://tinyurl.com/n57zhk2

Do you think all of the XP machines are going to burst into flames
next week?


Wouldn't *that* be a giggle. Why, you could upgrade to VISTA!

Is that when MS support for XP support dies? Next week?

Actually, I'm surprised you are not running some flavor of LINUX.

I have thought about Linux but I am not sure I have another OS in my
soul.
I am coming up on 50 years of this and a dozen or more OS's on as many
different hardware platforms. That is only counting PCs as 4. (DOS,
W/3x, W/9x, XP).

If I ever actually see the need, I will take that on tho, before I
would go for an Apple but they are exactly the opposite direction from
each other in regard to Windoze. One is totally open source, the other
is as proprietary as it gets.



I kind of liked MS-DOS. I think I started with 1.1.

My recollection is that I bought my first PC in about 1983 at a local
dealership that was independent. I was also looking at an Apple at that
time, or shortly thereafter, and I think it was called simply
"Macintosh." It was small, had a built-in screen and a keyboard without
a number pad.

I had a 1st day ship PC/1 (two 128k floppies 16k memory)
That shipped with PC DOS 1.0 but when I got a hard drive for it I went
to 2.10 and a board upgrade to the 256k system board and a 6 pack card
I stayed with that until 3.3
I had a home made networked AT machine running 3.11 at work.



The IBM PC I got was only available at point of purchase with one floppy
drive. I got rid of it a year later when I was contracted as a writer
for a tabloid called PC Week magazine, because another company, Eagle
Computer, sent me an 8086 based machine with a hard drive and an AST
multifunction board, and told me I could keep it. I did.

Beginning with the 286 machines, I started getting components and
assemblying my own. Dell sent me an evaluation PC, might have been a
386, and appointment me a moderator on CIS of one of its groups.