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A trip down memory lane (Original Post)
milestogo
Sep 2023
OP
I kept our law firm on a DOS network, refusing to migrate to Windows until Y2K
WheelWalker
Sep 2023
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TexasTowelie
(116,749 posts)1. "You make a grown man cry."
That should have been the motto for Windows 95 considering the number of times that the system crashed while working and losing all of the work product since the last time it was saved.
milestogo
(17,795 posts)2. One day I counted all the restarts.
25 times in one work day. And all I was doing was working on a wordperfect document.
John1956PA
(3,368 posts)3. I keep a Pentium III machine loaded with Win 98.
I have not booted it up since last winter. Its ability to run the web is limited to accessing a slimmed-down version of the MSN portal.
WheelWalker
(9,199 posts)4. I kept our law firm on a DOS network, refusing to migrate to Windows until Y2K
Of course, I don't understand a thing about computers or operating systems in particular. I'm just in the "if it ain't broken..." camp, generally.
NBachers
(18,129 posts)5. then they perfected it all with Windows Millennium
milestogo
(17,795 posts)6. OMG I'm having flashbacks
lastlib
(24,902 posts)7. And then there was "Microsoft Bob"
OMG, my brain hurts just thinking about how galactically BAD that program was!