Damn it....hopes dashed

Hey at least it says you are going to get Win95 updates!

clam1952 said:

Hey at least it says you are going to get Win95 updates!

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But I was hoping for so much more

25 years ago, my pc had a 6.5Gb 5.25" hard disk, yours is lagging behind.

tinmar49 said:

25 years ago, my pc had a 6.5Gb 5.25" hard disk, yours is lagging behind.

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Ah well, my daughter has been going on about a computer for her Uni course so maybe it’s time to hand it on over

clam1952 said:

Hey at least it says you are going to get Win95 updates!

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Paintbrush job !

I have two OLD computers, both have XP on them.
One is an AMD 5000+ (circa 2006), and the other is an HP Vectra with the original Pentium Pro.

After seeing this post, I'm really tempted to fire them up and run the Win 11 compatibility checker on them.

I'm not sure the PC Health Check tool (14MB), will fit on the HP Vectra. It has 1.2GB and a 2.1 GB hard drives.
One has XP on it the other has Diablo II (just to see if they would run).



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In case you're waiting for the pics... don't. They both still work, but haven't been turned on for about 13 years, and they are seriously packed away in the closet.


HP Vectra centerfold... (pic from 2014)



It has a whopping 96MB of RAM and the vid card has 4KB of VRAM. LOL

The Vectra ran really hot, so I decided to replace the thermal compound. BUT, I couldn't get the heatsink... off.
The thermal compound was so old and dry, the heatsink was "welded" to the CPU.
I was afraid of damaging the CPU, so I super glued an aluminum bar to the heatsink.
Notice that I bent the aluminum bar so as to guide the airflow to the CPU heatsink.
That cooled it down enough to run.
Ahhh... the good old days., when ships were wood and men were iron.

Back in the good old days when I still used an Atari 800XL and an Atari STE, I fancied one of those PC's with the huge speed and power, mine was bought, costing the incredible sum of £1250, with a 233Mhz processor, 64Mb ram, the 6.5Gb Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" drive, and a state of the art ATI Rage Pro graphics card with 8Mb of ram, plus a Creative Awe64 sound card. The Intel socket 7 board had USB headers on it, along with a 15" monitor. It had Windows 95 SE on it. It was pretty fast, Intel was just introducing their 300Mhz processor at the time.
I had one of the first 1Ghz processors available, a Thunderbird, I think, unlocked by Overclockers UK, I might have it kicking around somewhere.
Since then, I have had Windows 98, 98SE, Millenium, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and now, 11.

They used to say that all you needed in your tool bag was duct tape and WD-40. (If it moves, and it shouldn't, use the duct tape; if it doesn't move, and it should, use the WD-40.)

Now you have to have a tube of Crazy Glue as well. We live in exciting times.

tinmar49 said:

Back in the good old days ...
Since then, I have had Windows 98, 98SE, Millenium, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and now, 11.

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Tech, like time, marches on.

All we have to do is make sure we don't get trampled as it goes by.