Windows 98

[buggalugs]

Just quoting to replace one of the last Windows 98 PCs at a clients - the latest inland revenue CD won't run on it.

(Fault description: the CD drive is broken)

This is the book keepers PC - in use all day, every day. Office 2K, old version of Firefox (with icon changed to blue E , ancient Sage...


Anyone else got any cobweb strewn relics still ticking over?

[S6PNJ]

I recently rebuilt my dad's PC (Pentium III 600Mhz) with Win 98. I don't think his CNC software will run on anything newer!

[Morningside]

Yup. I have a laptop and old PC running at 100Mhz mainly for DOS.

Reason? Well, old programming software for radios. Motorola and some others are quite old and use software timing and anything too fast just cause it to fail.

[onomatopoeia]

I have a P2 based PC running 98 on my desk. I have to support some software I wrote many years ago that directly programs the FDC and DMA chips using IN and OUT instructions.

This doesn't work too well on modern things like Windows 2000 as user mode and v86 mode processes run at IOPL=3 and the NT kernel just throws the IO instructions from these processes in the bin.

Fortunately almost everyone has stopped using it now, we stopped selling it years ago.

[Cmurder]

ill beat u all under my bed i have a pentium 2 with MMX ! thats right MMX

[tribbles]

I've got a 66Mhz DX2 machine (?) for programming EPROMs on (the hardware won't work on Pentium upwards). Runs DOS.

But that's ignoring the BBC micro I set up a couple of weeks ago (one of several I have) - but that's just for messing around with

[buggalugs]

onomatopoeia said:

I have a P2 based PC running 98 on my desk. I have to support some software I wrote many years ago that directly programs the FDC and DMA chips using IN and OUT instructions.

This doesn't work too well on modern things like Windows 2000 as user mode and v86 mode processes run at IOPL=3 and the NT kernel just throws the IO instructions from these processes in the bin.

Fortunately almost everyone has stopped using it now, we stopped selling it years ago.

That's fairly heroic to still support that!

[GingerRob]

That's retro silicon baby lol

[marshalla]

I have an Amiga 3000 running Linux as a "backup" DNS server - just because I can.

[spitfire-ian]

marshalla said:

I have an Amiga 3000 running Linux as a "backup" DNS server - just because I can.

Geek!!

[marshalla]

spitfire-ian said:

marshalla said:

I have an Amiga 3000 running Linux as a "backup" DNS server - just because I can.

Geek!!

Nicest thing anyone's said to me all year!

A geek is nerd with social skills - and an extrovert geek is one who looks at YOUR shoes when he's talking to you

[Frankeh]

I found a windows 95 computer still in a classroom at a school I used to visit for a few hours a week.
I turned it on once just to see what would happen.
The answer is not much for a long time.

[The_Burg]

Found a brand new unused laptop with a preload of WIN95, was actually not bad performing.

[Man-At-Arms]

still got my old Commodore 64 in my wardrobe
and if i look in the loft, i'll probably find my old Olivetiti 286 (12MHz processor & 20MB HDD !)

in fact i think it had a math co-processor making it a 287 !

[Frankeh]

The_Burg said:

Found a brand new unused laptop with a preload of WIN95, was actually not bad performing.

Well it would if it was brand new. It's when they've been in service, without a defrag, since 1995. That's when the problems arise.

[Mattt]

Frankeh said:

The_Burg said:

Found a brand new unused laptop with a preload of WIN95, was actually not bad performing.

Well it would if it was brand new. It's when they've been used to browse porn, without a defrag or AV, since 1995. That's when the problems arise.

EFA

[maser_spyder]

Tried loading '95 on to a modern PC?

I had a copy of this on floppy disks.... (about 28 of them!).

Try installing it now with a CD, full install takes a couple of minutes!

[Morningside]

maser_spyder said:

Tried loading '95 on to a modern PC?

I had a copy of this on floppy disks.... (about 28 of them!).

Try installing it now with a CD, full install takes a couple of minutes!

Oh hell, I have tried that one. It is very painful.

I have some old PC/104 embedded control things that boot from EPROM (basically a mirror of a small floppy) - They only work on DOS 3.3

I also have over 100 touchpc handhelds that use embedded DOS - Still trying to figure out the DOS function calls to the OS as the company will not help unless I buy a zillion of them, then I can 'have' the SDK

[AndyAudi]

buggalugs said:

Anyone else got any cobweb strewn relics still ticking over?

I've just been online to re-order fabric ribbons for the NEC that prints all my old mans remittance advices & monthly accounts (on the green & white listing paper).

All this is run from a Western Systems 386 (& windows 3.1)

at 70 years of age his book keeper (who would also fit into the category of cobweb strewn relics) is itching to get a new machine & get online thanks to the forthcoming changes for HMRC submission!