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[audioguru2]

MP,
I have heard that Win98, 2nd edition, would eat my 2G hard-drive (with many files) for lunch and again for dinner.

 

[ante1]

Audioguru,

Are you really using a 486 and a 2G hard drive?
I have 600Mhz PIII and 80G and I constantly get bullied for it! Like

 

[audioguru2]

Yes, Ante.
This is my 1st and only computer, and it is a 486DX/100. I upgraded to the last 486 chip that Intel made, with Pentium features such as bigger L1 cache memory. The CPU chip and its 5V to 3.3V regulator are fitted to a daughter board that is the same size as an older 486 DIL chip. My computer doesn't even have any L2 cache memory.
My Compaq computer is all-in-one, like a Mac, so I couldn't upgrade the motherboard.
My cable ISP has announced "Extreme Hi-speed" at 5MB/sec., but I'm happy (except for jerky video) with my 486 and its 1MB/sec download speed.

 

[ante1]

audioguru,

Is that 1Mbit or 1Mbyte download speed?

Ante :

 

[audioguru2]

Ante,
It depends on whom you ask. The marketing department of my ISP says one thing, and Microsoft and Bandwidthplace.com say another.
But it is very, very fast.

 

[MP1]

Hey guys!
When I say USING it, I mean it!
My 486 is used every day on the internet (cable) for surfing, e-mail, ordering parts and for word-processing invoices, etc. It is reliably running Windows 98, 1st Edition ......

.....Any other challengers?

I would not exactly call this reliable, noting the above comments... You have also wasted mixos time for a problem that does not exist on this system.

It seems you have two choices:
Upgrade or stop complaining.

MP

 

[audioguru2]

MP,
Since my computer doesn't have this problem on any other web-site, then I complained, here.
I thought that the problem, here, could be fixed, here.
I didn't think that my computer had anything to do with it, like the errors that we get, here and only, here.
Now I know where it is not very reliable.

Many other web-forums work properly for me, why not this one?

 

[ante1]

audioguru,

So you have time left to visit any other web site after your daily posting on this one?

Ante :

 

[audioguru2]

Ante,
Yes, of course. I also notice that you do too.
It all started when I asked a forum where I can buy epoxy-fibreglass Veroboard, like was available in the good old days (the blue stuff), since my Chinese supplier recently stopped carrying his very good copy.
Sincerely,
Mega-post goal, Audioguru

P.S. I'm still waiting for my original coin, soldered-in, bios/clock, lithium battery to die, so I can replace it (I have one), then my computer will be good for another 10 years.
I'm going to get a demo of that Extreme Hi-speed cable modem.

 

[ante1]

audioguru,

I spend an average of 1h a day on the net but often in 15-20 min sessions. Do you mean that the blue stuff is no longer manufactured? I use it all the time and I have some stock left but not much. It

 

[audioguru2]

Ante,
I can get only phenolic Veroboard in North America, it is the cheap, tan-coloured stuff that warps and breaks. Veroboard is now a new company, no longer part of Vero Industries. I think that it is called Verotech. Their web-site is nearly empty.

I connect my 486 to my router with an ISA-slot, 1/10 LAN card. The router connects to the cable modem.