[JA] Re: May need to upgrade from Win 3.1
- From: rsgilmore@xxxxxxxx
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:30:55 -0400
Grammatical proprieties aside, I'll toss in some additional
considerations for ya' - - I'm sure the humor won't be lost on most of
the list..!
* The previous 'puter here was a P-133, built from pieces/parts --
8-meg RAM, 200-meg HD, which, with DOS 5.0 and Win3.1, was pretty much of
a screamer (well, compared to the old 486-25... ha !)
Got a hankering one day to add a 1.6gig HD... Western Digital provided a
very good install disk and booklet that explained technical issues of
BIOS and block sizes and the like... I give 'em high marks.
I partitioned that drive into 200-meg chunks of C:\ -thru- L:\ ( yeah,
ten ! ), which, for "housekeeping" purposes suited the circumstances
very well -- Loaded up Win3.1 as dual-boot on D:\, and it played like a
champ. Even ran AOL 3.x at 28.8 without a whimper. Great machine.
Then I bought W95.
It *refused* to even install without 16-meg of RAM.
I added 16 (24 total). It loaded, but to say it "ran" would be
generous. It sucked. Even allowing a whole 200-meg partition for
Virtual Memory didn't help much.
At 32-meg, it was *not so bad*, but I believe the old 8088 PC was faster!
Moral of the story: I wouldn't even THINK of trying to run W95 on the
P-60.
Make friends with a small computer store -- NOT the Big-Box guys. Ask a
lot of damn-fool questions (they LOVE to chat) -- maybe spend a few
bucks...
Look for a cheap (auction or trade-in) P-200 or better MoBo/carcass,
maybe with a 1-gig HD that has W95 already loaded -- buy as much RAM as
you can afford, and transplant your other components as needed.
READ everything you can get your hands on. Knowledge is everything in
this game -- you can learn it yourself, or pay somebody else who does..
;-)
Good Luck.
R Scott Gilmore N8BQN Saginaw MI USA
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On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 05:37:02 EDT David Ames <worldrecord@xxxxxxxx>
writes:
>
> So my question is this: how do I determine the compatibility of
available hard drives with my Pentium-60? I believe I have something
like 60MB. I wouldn't want to buy a 20GB drive and find out that it's
not compatible.>>
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