Re: P166 to run DOS 6?
Philo,
Are you in Wisconsin? I'm Prior Lake, MN.
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Curt
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"Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@NOSPAM.Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Thanks for the reply Philo. Another ham...I'll bet there are a lot of
hams
| hanging around these NG's.
|
| I got my Novice ticket in 1971, and by the middle of '72 got my General
and
| then Advanced 3 weeks later. My license lapsed in '85 I think, although
| when I've looked in the Callbook it appears that my call hasn't been given
| to anybody else yet. Perhaps I could get it back. WBØDOU--I had on heck
of
| a setup. TH6DXX at 60', kilowatt. 100% Heathkit® gear. Ah, woe is me
| <g>. I'd like to *at least* get my ticket back.
| Thank you, and *73* !
|
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| Curt
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| "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
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|| "Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@NOSPAM.Yahoo.com> wrote in message
|| news:u%23DObYN8HHA.5316@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
|| > Philo,
|| >
|| > I can only imagine, as I've never tried anything like *that*.
|| >
|| > The first experience I had with computers was somebody gave me an old
|| > Northgate box, with 4MB RAM, a 386 @??, and a 55MB HD. I had countless
|| > versions of DOS I could play with,(I loved v.6.22), and settled with
WFW
|| > 3.11. It didn't have a modem, and I seriously wonder if it could do
|| > *anything* but pure text stuff on the Internet--if that.That was in
| 1996.
|| >
|| > I got an old Packard Bell for my birthday in 2000. It had *2* HD's
|| totalling
|| > **1.6 GB**!! 16 MB RAM, plus 4MB RAM on the MB, so a total of 20MB.
| This
|| > is the one with the P24T, Pentium Overdrive® @ 85MHz (100 MHz depending
| on
|| > whose benchmark you used). Oh, a 28.8 modem, 2-button mouse, and 14"
|| > monitor and a "real" IBM keyboard. It came with W98SE.
|| > I *did* have that machine on the 'net from 2000-2006, starting with
1000
|| > free hours thanks to AOL. Slow as molasses, but I was having a ball.
|| Only
|| > thing I did was add more RAM, for a total of 32MB=4MB onboard= 36MB
| total.
|| > It helped some.
|| >
|| > I spent all that time in this and the other MS W98 related NG's. It
was
|| the
|| > NG's where I learned everything. It's one thing to read about
something
|| in
|| > a book, but try it hands-on, and you'll remember it. I got to know
some
|| > MVP's, and many other folks. I remember you well. I had a very lean
| and
|| > tweaked 98 box. It was an underpowered machine running 98SE, but I
made
|| it
|| > work at it's limit, and I was very proud of what I could do on it.
|| >
|| > I'm now using a machine I "inherited" after my mom's upgrade, and this
|| > *came* with 98SE installed. But by the time I got it, it had XP Pro
on
|| it.
|| > So I'm trying to learn it. But, once again, I'm using a somewhat
| marginal
|| > machine for the OS, but I've got it tweaked to the max., and once again
|| I'm
|| > very proud of how it performs. I turned off *all* the "eye-candy"
| (hated
|| > the pastels and "Fisher-Price" look). Once it boots up, it doesn't
look
|| > like XP at all!
|| >
|| > I was an amateur radio operator for years, and that was expensive
| enough.
|| I
|| > swore I'd NEVER get into computers at all. Besides, I don't really
like
|| > computer games, I can balance my checkbook with a calc. or paper and
|| pencil.
|| > Then comes the Internet and the WWW. I was hooked. I can spend hours
| in
|| a
|| > library unless someone drags me out kicking and screaming. I love
|| > information, and to learn--anything. Once the WWW began to get
popular,
| I
|| > was hooked. I've got a library at home!!
|| >
|| > So, here I am!
|| >
||
|| Hey that's great...
|| I got my ham ticket back in 1964 and am still licensed...but find that I
|| like usenet a lot better!
||
|| But was sure surprised that I ended up with a computer...Never did I
think
|| I'd get into it.
|| When I decided to go "on-line" I paid $100 for a full year of dial-up...
|| and was using win95 with IE2. I had not idea how to use the browser and
|| called up a friend of mine who looked ta it and
|| was also quite puzzled...but we were able to somehow download IE5...it
| took
|| 4 hours!
||
|| Whew...
||
|| Those were the days.
||
|| Then, as an experimentor I decided to give Linux a try and it took me 6
| full
|| months before I even had the slightest
|| clue as to what I was doing...I decided to read all the info on Usenet
| (the
|| Linux groups) to learn.
|| I had absolutely no intention to post...
|| but then saw some other beginner struggling with something that I had
just
|| figured out a few days before....
|| so I gave him some help.
|| Even though I was just a beginner...he thought I was some expert...and it
|| turned out the was a Windows NT administrator
|| who had many years of computer experience....but had recently decided to
|| dabble in Linux...
|| I told him that his question was way over my head...and the question he
| had
|| that I answered was about the only thing
|| I knew. <G>
||
|| Anyway...in all these years I have never yet purchased a new machine...I
| use
|| mostly other people old "junk"
|| and am pretty good at really getting the most out of things.
|| It's so odd to now see Pentium-4's in the trash! I grab them up as fast
as
| I
|| can.
||
||
|
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