windows 98

I have a vmware image. I'll see if i can find an installer ISO The comment about being off topic is not true. I don't like Fords, but let people collect them. Also if you need to get a Ford going to do something useful and the topic were relevent to a list about old fords, it should be on topic overall to such a list If you started delving too far into topics about things not related to classic hardware you'd be better to take them to a windows forum. But asking how to get classic hardware running with older devices / hardware and specific topics to that is on target. Reason being. The hardware for the x86 PC progressed from an 8088 thru a 286, 386, 486, and Pentium. The Dos and windows platforms operated in ways that were unique, in this way. Original 8088 in pure 8088 real mode. 286 introduced protected mode but still had to deal with return to real mode and booted and ran as a real mode OS going into protected mode and back. I believe Windows 3.1 used a mode that was somewhat different than win95, but the essential thing for dos, Win3.1 and win95 were all real mode that ran another mode, but basically were real mode OS's. Windows 98 booted almost directly into protected mode and created a dos box to run such software as had required real mode. From there on, the transition was to Windows NT and that is a whole different can of worms. A lot of hardware out there deals only with the various windows platforms, and it is not acceptable to at least be considerate of questions which relate to the topic of windows related to the older custom hardware. Just as an example a lot of the affordable high performance scanners that have created Bitsavers require older windows and then still barely run, and getting help to support such should not be banned. Jim 4