Re: OT;W98 popularity

On Aug 29, 11:41 am, ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:36:33 -0700, mrdarr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 27, 6:29 pm, ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:30:38 -0000, mrdarr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Aug 27, 2:20 pm, "Anthony Fremont" <any...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Yanik wrote:
Can someone tell me why people on Ebay are bidding over $50 USD for
Windows 98SE? (Besides the usual auction fever.)
Why are people willing to pay so much for a really old op system?

Perhaps to save money on retail copies of the OS. For example, the full
version of XP Pro is something like $300 retail, but the upgrade version is
allot less (more than $50 less, but I don't know the exact amount).

Ya might as well run Knoppix Linux then...

I had the (dis)pleasure of trying to use a Flash disk to retrieve
files from a Win98 laptop. Couldn't find drivers on the '98 disk...
*eventually* got the thing to work by using my Creative .mp3 player
and installing Creative's .mp3 drivers on the drive. All this in a
third-world country, where I had to run to an internet cafe to
download Creative's drivers...

Michael

You're not too bright... either then.

The Knoppix 5.1.1 DVD was ALL you needed for all of the above.

*** a bunch of "cafe" horse***!- Hide quoted text -

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Unfortunately the laptop didn't have a DVD drive, or even a CD drive,
for that matter. It was a Pentium 60, I believe.

We did try downloading a Knoppix CD from the cafe (I left mine at
home, not thinking it was necessary), but the download would have
taken 8 hours at the cafe (DSL speeds). The country was the
Philippines.

Two things... travel abroad prepared.

A laptop without an optical disc reading device is a sad excuse for a
mobile computing platform.

Not necessarily so.
I took a tiny Fujitsu notebook on a several month world trip and it
didn't have a CD drive, and nor did I ever need a drive. By tiny I
mean it was only 750grams and as small as your outstretched hand, a
superb tradeoff in terms of size and weight. It was so small that
airport security didn't even want to check it because it looked like a
big PDA. USB connection was fine for all of my needs.
The small size granted by the lack of a CD drive meant I could take it
everywhere in my backpack, even while hiking. Total weight with the
case and charger was still under 1kg. It was so small it even fitted
in the wife's purse!

Horses for courses.

Dave.

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