Dumb and dumber

[raincityboy]

Originally posted by: jogiba
I guess some of you would run out into a highway to pickup a penny. Yeah right ,spend all weekend trying to get your only PC to run Windows 98 and all your software on a 10GB HD in 2006 when 100GB HD's are $29.

If you don't need a better computer why buy one when you can easily fix the problem? Does it really take you a weekend to install an OS?

And I thought people on the other forum were total retards.

*Troll Alert*

 

[AlgaeEater]

Originally posted by: jogiba
You guys don't know what pain is. Pain is like when my dad didn't pick me up on time after school and I had to wait for like freaking, 30 minutes! I wanted to kill myself and him, since it was obvious he didn't care about me. I hate the world, I can't believe things like this happen all the time.

Like that girl I like, when I finally went up to her and told her my feelings. She laughed and me and put it on her myspace. I was like, WTF you know? Keep it to yourself whore, dont' go toying around with people's feelings like that.

Screw this, you all don't know me, you don't know pain and stuff. You all say you do, but whatever, you're all retards. All these haters nowadays, but I'll show you all. Mom was right about a few things I guess.

Time to go listen to some Linkin Park and cry myself to sleep. I'm crying because the world is sad, not me.

 

[jogiba]

I am shocked there are people here in the age of $29 100GB HD's that would spend time reinstalling your data,software and OS on a 10gb HD. Do you have a life or do you get your cookies doing such retarded stuff ?

 

[AlgaeEater]

Originally posted by: jogiba
I am shocked there are people here in the age of $29 100GB HD's that would spend time reinstalling your data,software and OS on a 10gb HD. Do you have a life or do you get your cookies doing such retarded stuff ?

Needs more cowbell

 

[Trippytiger]

Originally posted by: jogiba
I am shocked there are people here in the age of $29 100GB HD's that would spend time reinstalling your data,software and OS on a 10gb HD. Do you have a life or do you get your cookies doing such retarded stuff ?

Honestly, how long do you think it takes to install Windows 98? It's been a while since I've done it, but I can tell you that it didn't take a whole weekend. Or a whole day. Or even more than a couple of hours. It's not going to take that much longer to do on an old 10GB drive than it did on my old 60GB, and it's not as if you have to be there for more than a few minutes during the whole process.

It will definitely be quicker than waiting for 3 days for a new drive to arrive, installing it, and then reinstalling Windows 98, and it would certainly be a much better use of anybody's time, than, say, juvenile bitching about people who are satisfied with old hardware.

 

[jogiba]

AnandTech, home of people that would reinstall Windows 98 on an 8 year old 10gb HD in July 2006 instead of a $29 100GB HD. Maybe I should go dumpster diving for Win 98 PC's with 10GB HD's and sell them for cash !

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: jogiba
AnandTech, home of people that would reinstall Windows 98 on an 8 year old 10gb HD in July 2006 instead of a $29 100GB HD. Maybe I should go dumpster diving for Win 98 PC's with 10GB HD's and sell them for cash !

i would say the trash is a good place for you

 

[earthling30]

When are people going to realize that the latest and greatest isn't always what people want or need. Just like when Vista finally comes out, I'll be waiting a long time before I jump on the band wagon before buying a license to use it. XP-Pro SP2 is running just fine for me, plus I don't have the hardware to support Vista.

 

[0roo0roo]

well xp works pretty well yes. but 98? good god man...it sucked hard. i have no nostolgia at all for 98.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: jogiba
AnandTech, home of people that would reinstall Windows 98 on an 8 year old 10gb HD in July 2006 instead of a $29 100GB HD. Maybe I should go dumpster diving for Win 98 PC's with 10GB HD's and sell them for cash !

It's likely that machine has 64MB RAM and you want to spend $30 on a new hard drive?
More RAM will help more than a new HDD.

Anandtech, home of people that would spend $30 on a new hard drive when a system has only 64MB RAM and the HDD is only half full!


<-- Used to own an XPS 600 (P3 600/128MB RAM/35GB HDD), basically likely to be the fully upgraded version of what's mentioned in the OP, at the time. Upgraded to 384MB RAM and it ran Win 2k without issue, and could do taxing things like surf the internet with no issues.
No need to go overkill spending $30 on a HDD when it's not needed, especially when RAM would likely be more useful.

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: jogiba
AnandTech, home of people that would reinstall Windows 98 on an 8 year old 10gb HD in July 2006 instead of a $29 100GB HD. Maybe I should go dumpster diving for Win 98 PC's with 10GB HD's and sell them for cash !

This from a Junior Member whose orginal post is about a thread from another forum entirely.. and we care.. why??

Maybe you should go looking for older machines and turn them around and sell them - lots of other places do! Computer Renaissance - is a national chain of stores selling new and used equipment; plus, there are myriad different places doing so on eBay too. There's even two places in my area selling used machines - most of it pre-P4 era equipment.

I've even purchased a couple p3-733 rigs(complete system for under $50.) because I had a specific need for them where a 10 to 15 Gig drive is WAY more than sufficient for what they're going to do.

As for re-installing, I do still value my time a bit - once I set up an OS on a given machine, I take a Ghost image of it - saves me time later in setting up another similar machine.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Originally posted by: jogiba
AnandTech, home of people that would reinstall Windows 98 on an 8 year old 10gb HD in July 2006 instead of a $29 100GB HD. Maybe I should go dumpster diving for Win 98 PC's with 10GB HD's and sell them for cash !

Joined 15 months ago...and you are only at 7 posts now including this god-awful tirade against someone wanting to reinstall Win98. Glad you didn't waste much time here. Change your attitude or please, leave. Immediately. I don't know about you but we, as a community, regard ourselves as people committed to technology and helping others with problems. The moderators discipline people for attacks such as these - this isn't a personal attack but against the whole forum. That is not appreciated around here.

Regards,
theprodigalrebel

 

[secretanchitman]

my dell xps H 266 @ 300Mhz pentium 2 runs perfectly fine on windows 2000 and a nice 30GB HD on a promise pci controller.

 

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
That guy can easily install a Linux distro. The hardware is absolutely perfect for it. If that particular person has such a computer, I doubt they play games on it. So, what's the best thing to do? Put Linux on that sucker. Linux can support everything they're trying to do with speed and security for next to nothing at all.

For the first time ever, i agree with somone recommending linux. Its free, its sturdy like XP, they dont game. Itll not get infested with spyware etc which will be the problem with their 98 box. All they need to do is know about linux first.

 

[Maximilian]

I think the OP is link19's bro or somthing, very similar replys.

 

[raincityboy]

jogiba, your last three replies were basically the same thing. Which makes me think you just want a reaction. You purpose would be better served by posting this in ATOT :evil:

 

[Maxspeed996]

LOL! I have a p3 533 with 512 megs of ram and 4 10 gig hard drives ( PCI hard drive controller) in my garage. It actually does the trick for what it's used for. Wireless internet conection. And getting music from my LAN to play through my garage stereo......
Maybe video chatting on MSN messenger from time to time while I drink beer and smoke out there with buddies.

 

[jogiba]

So the opinion here from the experts is to re-install Windows 98 and everything else on an 8 year old 10gb HD. I am shocked since I just pulled a 4 year old 20GB HD off of my Promise ATA133 controller (replaced with a 200GB) because I didn't trust my data on that old of a HD and needed room to test Vista beta 2 (dual boot with XP SP2). Am I the only one here that thinks this way ?

 

[raincityboy]

Originally posted by: jogiba
So the opinion here from the experts is to re-install Windows 98 and everything else on an 8 year old 10gb HD. I am shocked since I just pulled a 4 year old 20GB HD off of my Promise ATA133 controller (replaced with a 200GB) because I didn't trust my data on that old of a HD and needed room to test Vista beta 2 (dual boot with XP SP2). Am I the only one here that thinks this way ?

I know of a couple of bussiness computers that are running Windows 98 with the original H/W. They dont want to update because they don't need to.
I like having a fast machine for my personal use, so no I dont run Win 98.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Soviet
I think the OP is link19's bro or somthing, very similar replys.

Ha! That was one of my 1st thoughts, but I didn't see "POS" once.

OP: Have you ever heard the term "If it aint broke, don't fix it?"
If the hardware is sufficient for the user, and it sounds like it is, then what is the problem? It may not play Oblivion, but I'm sure IE and outlook run fine. That seems to be all this person needs, and it seems nosy and presumptuous of you to tell them otherwise.

I wouldn't spend a penny on upgrading it, HD or RAM, it would be more cost effective in the long run to get a dell special. But, a reinstall of their os of choice, and the old thing should be able to last until the user actually desires more functionalty/power.

 

[dexvx]

A p3-500 (assuming 256MB+ memory) with a 10GB hdd can more than sufficiently run win2k pro on a clean install. If you need a p4 or a64 to run windows smoothly, you're doing something wrong.

 

[smopoim86]

imo, the old hdd were much more durable i have a 10+ year old machine still working great with a 10gb.

All original!

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: smopoim86
imo, the old hdd were much more durable i have a 10+ year old machine still working great with a 10gb.

All original!

QFT. i gave my mother-in-law a 1GHz athlon, 512MB ram, 9GB 7200rpm hdd with a 3dfx 16MB agp gpu (just some stuff i had laying around, and she needed a machine to create and print some documents). i put win2kpro on it and it works fine. it will last her as long as she needs a machine.

 

[networkman]

There's about (35) PII-350 systems with 256meg and 4 to 10 Gig HDs running Windows 2000 & Citrix clients in the library system I work for right now. Granted, they're at end of life as it were and will be replaced in less than 2 months, but when you've got a limited budget and 600+ machines in your organization, you make do with what you have.

Heck, I just retired an NEC 3FGx 15" monitor because it was just starting to get a little blurry -- manufacture date was March of 1993! :shocked: Not bad for a computer monitor in pretty much constant use every day. When you buy quality components it shows.

 

[Thorny]

My last job (4 years ago) still used 486SX-16 machines running Dos, exernal modems and all. There were (and prolly still are) dozens of these in use, and guess what, they worked just fine for the task at hand, 24/7/365. Sure, there were shelves stacked with parts, but sometimes you just dont mess with a working system