What you are saying is you have a Pentium 60 CPU and a 60 MB HD? If so, what you have is options. I doubt that NetZero in its current bloated condition will run on your 60 MhZ machine, but what do I know, never having loaded the software? And I don't think Win 9x will fit on a 60 MB HD with room for programs, data, etc. Your 60 MhZ machine should run Win 9x OK, but fairly slowly. I have temporarily lost the file I had on HD size limits. You could do a Google search, or ask a question at a suitable forum, for example, about.com, or, even better go to http://internet.ashlists.org/ and sign up for some interesting and valuable lists on any of the topics in this email. As I recall, one limit is set by the BIOS in your Motherboard. This limit may or may not be overridable by software which often comes with the HD to make a bigger drive work with older BIOS. [You could consider putting in a new motherboard (get one which fits the case, or a new case, which would upgrade your CPU and BIOS at the same time, maybe adding sound and video improvements. All for ~$100.] The most popular solution is to buy another Pentium class computer (Celeron 400 or more) with 64 MB or more [128 MB should be great, but be aware of motherboard limitations, and above 500 MB there are other problems. RAM is inexpensive now.] RAM, running Windows 98 SR-2. This way you don't have to pay to upgrade one part and suffer the limitations of all the other slow parts. On the other hand, you may be going for a "world record" using your current machine, and want to keep it running longer. With some work, trial, and error, this can be done. Awhile back I asked about keeping older 486 and Pentium 100 with small amounts of ram [4-8-16-32 MB] online. Here is a summary of the suggestions I got. Some of the people who gave these suggestions may still be around. They may be reading this list. IF you are interested in emailing them, I can give your email address to them and suggest they contact you. You can connect to any ISP which uses pure DUN/PPP for connection and POP3 for email, using either DOS [perhaps faster, but less familiar], or Win 3.1. For DOS: http://www.arachne.cz Arachne (browser) - no Java. Has own email client, but Pegasus Mail for DOS is better and faster. A smaller email client was mentioned: Steve Lawson's Goin' Postal. It was suggested you sign up for Arachne email discussion group, lurk for awhile, then ask questions. Setup a Ramdisk of 2-4 MB, enable Smartdrive, optimize DOS memory. In WIN3.X: [copy from email] (I personally like the Calmira shell) http://www.calmira.org [but I take it you could run the rest of this without Calmira] Trumpet Winsock v.2.1F as a dialer Pegasus or FoxMail [for smaller systems] for email Internet Explorer v.3.03 browser (w/JAVA etc.) Opera v.3.50 browser (great alternative in Windows) Netscape v.2.02 is fast, v.3.x and v.4.08 are slow WS_FTP for transfers mIRC for chatting ICQ (old version is slow, but it works) for messenging Instant Messenger (old version) for messenging/chat Tera Term or Net Term for telnetting WebFord (older version) for HTML design I guess what I'm saying is either to go forward into a whole new machine and Win 98 SR-2 [and have more speed and flexibility], go backwards and run DOS on your present machine [and have more speed and space, but perhaps some limitations], or connect via Win 3.1 using older smaller software. Check out http://internet.ashlists.org/ in any case. There is lots of useful and friendly information to be had therein. hope this helps, thepccat On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 05:37:02 EDT David Ames <worldrecord@xxxxxxxx> writes: > If I'm not going to be able to use E-mail for free with Juno, then > apparently I will have to use NetZero, or choose some paid service. > So far as I know, I can't get other services while running Win 3.1, so > I may need to get a hard drive with some other Windows version installed. > 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. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org ~*~