19 May
2023
19 May
'23
10:39 p.m.
On Fri, 19 May 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I do remember that, because I carried around a USB key
with an
assortment of service packs, IE installers, etc. and it was sooooooo
slow to copy W2K SP4 onto a machine -- until you had SP4 installed...
Thanks, everybody for the reminders of the Windoze history.
I remember, now, having a Swiss Army knife that had a small thumb drive in
it, and having to load a driver into my mother's "e-Machine" Pentium
Win98SE machine to copy my files to hers.
I hereby formally retract my erroneous suggestion of a "386 98,SP2 desktop
with floppies and USB",
and replace my suggestion with:
"a PC with USB and floppies", and let Tony decide what vintage to use.
I still suggest the possibility of a current machine for the interwebs,
with thumb drive sneaker-net to an alder machine with USB and floppies.
Tony already experienced one of the complications with trying to have more
than one add-on device on the same machine.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
At that point in time Windows Me was essentially
dead and had been for a
while. No one at Microsoft was interested in the effort required to port
USB 2.0 support back to Windows Me.
OK, fair enough. I concede.
I stand by the 95 stuff, though.
95/95A: FAT16 only, no USB.
95B: FAT32, USB, no IE4, no standard upgrade path.
95C: USB + IE4.
98 onwards: USB as standard; upgrades from 95 supported.