Re: Moving On (Sort Of...)
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:40:19 -0500, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>
wrote:
>"Nigel Stapley" <unet@judgemental.plus.com> wrote in message
>news:13jpi947ng35b2b@corp.supernews.com...
>> Well, I finally bit the bullet.
>>
>> After nearly 6.5 years, I've bought a new PC.
>
>Only 6.5 years? ;-) My main computer from 1998 to the beginning of 2006 was a
>custom box that started out with Win95B and was then set up to dual boot with 98SE.
>In 2006 I finally built a new box which currently has 98SE and XP dual-booting with
>XOSL boot manager. Visat has not found a welcome here yet. ;-)
>
>
>> Not having gone *completely* potty, I declined Vista and went with XP Pro. It's a
>> nice rig.
>>
>> I still have my old 98SE machine, though, and intend getting a year or two more
>> out of it yet. I'm going to keep it for certain functions and - in due course - to
>> set it up as a dual-boot machine with (probably) Xubuntu, 'cos I want to get my
>> head around Linux OSes.
>
>I hear you. My old 98SE box sits in the other room and will eventually get a Linux
>or two on it.
>
>
>> So although you won't be seeing as much of me from now on (and I may have to start
>> hanging out in The Group With The People Who Forgot To Wear Their Tinfoil
>> Beanies), I'll still be reading regularly and asking obvious questions from time
>> to time.
>
>Many of the folks that used to hang out here moved onto the XP groups, and now many
>of them are moving on to the Visat groups. It seems there were far too few beanies
>to go around....
>
>
>> This is an ideal point to thank all the people on the group who have guided me
>> through the minefields over the last 6 years: Glee, PCR, PA Bear, Franc, Don, all
>> the various Bills and 'absent friends' such as Terhune and Dundat.
>
>Always a pleasure to see ya, Nigel.....hope to continue in that vein.
>
>
>> Remember, don't go talking about me, 'cos I'm still here! 
>
>Not to worry!
>(Is he gone yet? ;-))
I'm still running the same setup which began in 97 as win95. (Until
97, I refused to leave Win3.11). A year and a half later I installed
Win98 over the top of 95, eventually upgraded to 98SE. This same
installation is what I am using right now. The same hard drive was
moved into 4 different computers since then. (The original computer,
a P266, died in early 2006). I moved the drive to a P300, then to a
PII700, and just recently to a PIII1000. This past August the
original hard drive died, and only because I knocked it off the desk.
I had just made a clone of it to place in this PIII1000, and was
moving the old drive back to the PII700 when I dropped it.
Yeah, I had to do some modifications when I changed the computers, and
a few times I ran Windows install on top of what I had, thus saving
all programs and settings. I once had a spyware attack make a big
mess, but I had a backup on another harddrive. I've installed and
removed hundreds of programs. I even upgraded to IE6, and then
downgraded to IE 5.5. I manually delete all junk files a few times
per year, besides many utilities to clean the registry and such.
I am still using the same email and usenet software, the same ver of
winzip from 98, and many other older programs. Everything still runs
fine. Some people dont understand why I dont upgrade. My answer is
simple. I have a computer to USE, not to have to keep relearning the
software and OS. I know just what to do when I need to accomplish
something without stumbling around, and I know how to fix 98. I also
still use some dos apps from as far back as the early 80's, and they
are still useful. I do not dual boot, but the computer boots to dos,
has all my old colored ascii C: prompts and crazy batch files. To
load Windows, I have a secret batch file, not "win". When I shutdown,
it goes back to dos.
I tried XP and could not get used to it. I found it clumbsy, awkward,
and irritating with all the stupid questions it asks. I disliked it
and just plugged my old 98 harddrive back in. Actually, I have WinME,
Win2K, and XP on separate harddrives. I can run ony of them on here
if I keep changing drives, but I just like 98 the best. I considered
changing to WinME, and found the USB more efficient as far as drivers,
but I have heard far too many times that ME has major problems.
Otherwise I would have changed, because ME is really no different as
far as look or using.
If I ever have to upgrade, I really dont know what I would do. I wont
even touch Vista....