Re: OT;W98 popularity

On Aug 29, 9:10 pm, ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:00:30 -0700, "David L. Jones" <altz...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



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 -

- Show quoted text -

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.

I have a folding 20 gas broiler that I take on hikes. A seven pound
laptop, much less my five pound DVD player with a six hour per charge
battery is cake.

My PSP gets online, plays movies, MP3s shows pictures, yada yada
yada... far better screen than nearly all PDAs at the time at a far
lower price, and I can get online anywhere a wired b or g network is
around (not that I would expect to see one on the trail).

The point is that I don't need to dumb down my pack weight at the
expense of proper entertainment on the trail, much less a good broiled
steak. A slimline DVD reader in a laptop capable of having one is
NOTHING, and can ALSO be "taken anywhere in the world".

Of course it can, but my one that weighed under 1kg and is much
smaller was MUCH NICER to take around the world. Not only did I not
have to take a separate laptop bag, but the entire notebook with
charger fitted in the outer pocket of my tiny day pack. And I didn't
miss the CD drive one bit. Losing the CD drive gives you options to
make the unit much smaller, which is of great benefit to some people.
For those people the added size of the CD drive is not "NOTHING".
If you need a CD drive, take it, if you don't need one then you have
the option of some very small units indeed.

Dave.

.

Quantcast