20 Sep
2004
20 Sep
'04
6:13 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:04:05AM -0400, Teo Zenios wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov>
To: "Ronald Wayne" <AppleTO(a)gmail.com>om>; "General Discussion:
On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past
(fwd)
Yes, I know... I specified "max" because that's the maximum amount of RAM
the system can take, not necessarily what was installed at the time.
When this was a W98 box, it had just shy of 512MB (one 256K, one 128K and
one 64K stick). For application reasons, I have upgraded it to XP and
bumped it up to 512MB.
Nevertheless, to keep things on-topic, it has a floppy because in the
past, trying to have _no_ floppy caused problems. With one attached,
I am no longer having wierd delays, etc.
-ethan
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 11:04:59PM -0400, Ronald
Wayne wrote:
Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME have problems with vcache if you have 768MB of ram
or more that can cause hangs on bootup along with other problems.
http://godzilla.kennedykrieger.org/~jgillen/computer/pcmemory.html If the floppy disk disappeared, I would notice (I
use them) but would
not care.
I recently put together a semi-modern system (AMD Socket A, 1.4GHz,
768MB max RAM, 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 0 ISA)...