Old, but not "Classic" - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Nov 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: jpero(a)pop.cgocable.net &lt;jpero(a)pop.cgocable.net&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, 13 November 1998 11:21
Subject: Re: Old, but not "Classic"

...
 win95 is too much for anything less than 486dx2,
500~1GB and 16MB plus. 
Not really, it depends on what you are doing with it.
I have some 486SLC and DX 33 machines with 10 mb and 270Mb HDDs in the
cafe here, happily running Win95, Ishare client (for the net) Netbeui & IPX
protocol stacks
with Netware (have a 3.12 Server here) and Microsoft network clients, Plus
an assortment
of Netscape/Agent/Mirc/BP FTP etc etc etc.  They work pretty well, my
customers will soon
complain if they don't.
I
...
 Win98 needs new machines. 
Can't agree with that at all.  I have had several P60's (yes the original 5v
Pentiums) with
16mb and 408mb hdds running 98, Ishare with the Active Desktop and full IE4
suite running in the cafe here for up to 3 months.  Never had an ounce of
trouble with any of them.   Again, it depends on what you are doing with it.

...
 All 3.x, 95/98 must have cdrom drives, 
Highly desirable, though not essential if you have another machine who's cd
it can share.
Network cards are very cheap now, and a small lan is far cheaper to setup
than retrofitting
a CD rom.
Footnote: The P60's I sold earlier had 32x cdroms and 16bit sound cards
fitted when they
were eventually sold to customers.   Again, I've had none come back with
problems.

...
 too many hardware and software are on cds. 
Hardware on CD????   What sort of compression software does that!!!  ;^)

Cheers

Geoff
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au