{"id":888,"date":"2010-11-13T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2010-11-13T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:38:12","slug":"farewell-windows-98-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/farewell-windows-98-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Windows 98 PC."},"content":{"rendered":"

What looks wrong with this photo?<\/p>\n

Wall-mounted, widescreen 23″ TFT monitor displaying Windows 98<\/strong>? \ud83d\ude1b Talk about ancient and modern! I’m having an office clearout and decided that I no longer require a 12 year old disused mini-tower Windows 98 PC, when I’ve got a Win 7 laptop, a dualboot Ubuntu\/XP laptop (2003 vintage – I use for teaching), and another pentium 4 Ubuntu desktop machine (that one’s just for fun).<\/p>\n

A couple of months ago we part-exchanged out oldest laptop (1997 – with Windows 95 on it) and got \u00a350 off the price of Tomek’s Acer One netbook. <\/p>\n

But the point of this little story is a doubly ironic twist. Irony 1 – windows 98 in widescreen flat panel TFT. Irony 2 was that in order to get my data off this machine before dumping it, I had to update it to SP2 and then install some drivers so it could communicate with a flash drive. Get that? Update a machine so you can throw it away :silly: . The only other options were to…<\/p>\n

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  1. go in the loft and dig out the external CDR drive and burn a couple of CDs.<\/li>\n
  2. try to get a win 7 machine to talk to win 98 via a CAT5 ethernet cable (rather you than me)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So I found a useful site<\/a> which told me that you can use USB flash drives with Windows 98. \ud83d\ude00 I gave it a go and it worked. Now the windows 98 machine is in line for recycling. I took the PSU out. They’re useful little things. And also the hard disk (2GB :rotfl:). But the rest is out of here. It served us well in its time, but now it’s just taking up valuable space – well not any more. But I just had to get a shot of the ancient and modern combination for old times sake. Look at this photo. It’s not the photo that’s grainy, it’s the Windows 98 graphic. <\/p>\n

    \"Windows<\/a>

    Windows 98 on a widescreen TFT. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

    The nice thing about declaring a machine obsolete, is that all the manuals and floppy disks that went with it can be disposed of as well. This frees up quite a bit of space. \ud83d\ude0e <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Saying bye bye to Windows 98 machine. In order to get my data off I had to update it so it could dump data onto a flash drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[48,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}