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Computer Help and Support

hunter

(40,624 posts)

1. It would be a fine linux machine.

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Thu May 30, 2013, 04:36 PM

May 2013

My laptop is a Pentium III, slower than that. I put an 8 Gb solid state hard drive in it; an old Compact Flash with an adapter. Compact Flash is IDE.

That's more useful to me than the Windows 98SE the machine is licensed for.

If it has to be Windows there are some excellent 98SE, NT, even XP remashes hiding out on the internet.

Here's a place to start:

http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/95-microsoft-software-products

For the shady stuff, and there is some very excellent shady stuff, things that let you run some XP software on 98SE era systems, etc., you'll have to look elsewhere.

I don't use anything Microsoft anymore unless it's my own old software running under Wine.

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