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A trip down memory lane (Original Post) milestogo Sep 2023 OP
"You make a grown man cry." TexasTowelie Sep 2023 #1
One day I counted all the restarts. milestogo Sep 2023 #2
I keep a Pentium III machine loaded with Win 98. John1956PA Sep 2023 #3
I kept our law firm on a DOS network, refusing to migrate to Windows until Y2K WheelWalker Sep 2023 #4
then they perfected it all with Windows Millennium NBachers Sep 2023 #5
OMG I'm having flashbacks milestogo Sep 2023 #6
And then there was "Microsoft Bob" lastlib Sep 2023 #7

TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
1. "You make a grown man cry."
Mon Sep 4, 2023, 08:41 PM
Sep 2023

That should have been the motto for Windows 95 considering the number of times that the system crashed while working and losing all of the work product since the last time it was saved.

milestogo

(17,786 posts)
2. One day I counted all the restarts.
Mon Sep 4, 2023, 08:53 PM
Sep 2023

25 times in one work day. And all I was doing was working on a wordperfect document.

John1956PA

(3,368 posts)
3. I keep a Pentium III machine loaded with Win 98.
Mon Sep 4, 2023, 09:04 PM
Sep 2023

I have not booted it up since last winter. Its ability to run the web is limited to accessing a slimmed-down version of the MSN portal.

WheelWalker

(9,199 posts)
4. I kept our law firm on a DOS network, refusing to migrate to Windows until Y2K
Mon Sep 4, 2023, 09:33 PM
Sep 2023

Of course, I don't understand a thing about computers or operating systems in particular. I'm just in the "if it ain't broken..." camp, generally.

lastlib

(24,901 posts)
7. And then there was "Microsoft Bob"
Wed Sep 6, 2023, 01:56 PM
Sep 2023

OMG, my brain hurts just thinking about how galactically BAD that program was!

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