27 Dec
2015
27 Dec
'15
5:27 p.m.
On 12/27/2015 04:44 PM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Since I am a real Windows dummy, I hesitate to upgrade
to a current
I7 CPU with SATA hard drives. Is there any reasonable possibility of
using an I7 CPU with Win98SE? Are there still I7 motherboards which
support at least one floppy at a time - either 3.5" or 5 1/4"
floppies? Are there any Video cards available which still support
FULL SCREEN mode at 132 columns? Mainly, I would stay with the 12
year old system for another 25 years if I had reliable spare parts
and Netscape 7.2 would still continue to support e-mail with
newsgroups that are still a small but vital link to other activity
that I find interesting. Are there used hardware parts still
available for a Pentium III system? I realize that there are no
guarantees, but where would I find sources for such hardware?
I haven't tried to run Win98SE directly on an I7; at that point, I'm
usually running VirtualBox or another emulator, which allows me to
tailor the (virtual) hardware characteristics to what Windows wants.
Asrock seems to have quite a few motherboards that retain both a legacy
floppy connector as well as an ATA one, in addition to the usual SATA
and USB3 ones. I've had few problems with their Socket AM3+ boards.
However, only a single floppy drive is supported.
--Chuck