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Thread Number: 73467
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Amazing Modern-Day Electronics |
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Post# 970163 11/26/2017 at 21:44 (2,334 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 I bought a new USB flash-drive yesterday for carrying files between home and work. 32 GB little non-mechanical gizmo, physical size less than 1/2 my pinkie finger. I thought it was tagged $9.97 on the shelf. Upon checking the receipt, $6.00. A Winchester-type hard drive of 30 MB was a big and $$$ deal not all that many years ago. Blows the mind to imagine what may be in 5, 10, 100 more years. | ||
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| Post# 970166 , Reply# 2 11/26/2017 at 22:34 (2,334 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
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| Post# 970167 , Reply# 3 11/26/2017 at 22:48 (2,334 days old) by johnrk (BP TX) | ||
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speedqueen I'm more in awe that you have a computer that'll actually function with W98! Ah, how I remember those old 'dll' errors... | ||
| Post# 970172 , Reply# 4 11/26/2017 at 23:28 (2,334 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
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Computer to run 98
That is the easy part. The real tough bit is software that is compatible with 98. oldversion.com and oldapps.com are my friends in that regard. Some 98 enthusiasts wrote a piece of software called KernelEx which gives 98 some XP compatibility and thus some newer software can run that otherwise wouldn't like Firefox 9 as opposed to the last official version supporting 98, 2. Partial XP compatibility isn't as good now as it was 5 years ago, whatever kernel items that couldn't be ported from XP are now called upon by most programs. And now XP is being dropped from support too by many programs. KernelEx gave 98 an extra 5 years to live after most programs stopped supporting it in effect, those 5 years ended about 3 years ago by my standards.
I spend quite a bit of time toying around trying various programs to find better and newer ones but for a web browser FF 9 is the best I can do. | ||
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Post# 970175 , Reply# 5 11/26/2017 at 23:33 (2,334 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Post# 970209 , Reply# 6 11/27/2017 at 07:01 (2,334 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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