Originally Posted by
ggariepy
Now anyone who can remember suffering with Windows 3.1 on a machine designed for MS-DOS, or Windows 95 on a 386 can tell you that "new and improved" is just exactly that. Remember how slow that 486 junk was? I wish I had a nickle for every minute I've spent watching a computer reboot for work. I'd be a wealthy man.
Ha! funny...I had that problem when I tried to shoehorn 3.0 on a dos box. what a mess. then 3.1 came along was worse until I sorted it out....then 3.1 was my fave, I knew what every single file did. deleted all the extraneous stuff, put in a math co and a bunch of ram and my 386 hummed! Came with a 125 MB HDD which everyone at the time said was bigger than I'd ever need. Biz partner at the time bought a 486 and it was exactly as you say...reboot! I made a living using that souped up 386 until 1998. By then I had external drives and a bazillion floppies. Chucked it all a few years later. Wish I hadn't done that. BTW that monster was $2700 new. And I dabbled in parts at that time, sold used HDDs for $1 per MB. One time bought a pallet full of used 386 motherboards (not computers, just the boards) at an auction, sold a few, made a small profit. The rest sat and sat in my garage. Boxes of 'em, falling off the pallet. Once the pentium came out I took them to the landfill. I was glad to be rid of them. Hmmm.
Anyway, thanks for rebooting the memories!
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