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  #21  
Old March 7th 14, 03:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

There are tons of now almost worthless PCs around with ~2/GHz CPUs
and 1GB RAM (actually that's probably a bit conservative).


That's what I've been trying to tell him.

And god knows why he needs ISA slots (most probably there's an ancient
sound card he's trying to hang on to, or possibly one of those FM-radio
tuner cards - I have one or two of those).

But even still, I can recommend the Soyo SY-P4i845PE and
SY-P4i845GVISA/plus. That board came in two basic versions - with
low-end 8mb on-board Intel video (and NO AGP slot) and the other version
having an AGP slot (and no onboard video). That is a P4 motherboard
with 3 isa slots and 4 PCI slots. Probably only available on ebay or
kijiji at this point. But these boards had bad capacitors - I've fixed
about a dozen of them. If your good with a soldering iron, then $10
worth of capacitors bought from Digikey will fix it.

The computer I'm typing this post on is a Soyo P4i845GVISA, with 80 gb
IDE hard drive, some no-name 2-port SATA PCI card, eVGA 6200 AGP video
card, 750gb and 1500gb SATA hard drives, and Windows 98se with
KernelEx. All hard drives are formatted FAT32.

There was one other P4 motherboard that had either 1 or 2 ISA slots that
I had at one time in the past - but it did not have on-board audio (!).

If you want to spend your cash, there are industrial motherboards
that have ISA, Parallel, Serial etc. along with all the modern
essentuals.


I'm not quite sure who makes it, but one example of what you are talking
about is this:

---------
MB-P4BWA Industrial Motherboard with ISA Slots
http://www.amazon.com/MB-P4BWA-Indus.../dp/B004HLOQH6
---------

I've built a few XP systems with that motherboard, and I still have 3 of
them in-box, unused. They cost an obscene $320 at the time I bought
them. It uses a socket-775 cpu. It would probably be a struggle to get
win-98 running on it (off hand I don't remember what chipset it uses).

If you didn't need ISA slots (and I really do think that Pedro could
live without ISA) then my recommended win-98 motherboard would be the
Asrock 4-core DUALVSTA (and it's sister board, the model name escapes
me). They're based on socket 775 with VIA 880 chipset. They have PCIe
and AGP slots (but can't use both at the same time) and they have DDR
and DDR2 memory sockets (again, can't use both at the same time). All
motherboard components have win-98 drivers except for on-board
hi-definition audio.

You could always do a dual boot.


Install XP on a pre-formatted FAT32 partition. I've done it once or
twice, and it's very nice. Dual-boot XP and DOS-7.1 to experience full
DOS-mode access to your file system!

NTFS is total garbage if you ask me. All the hype centered around
journaling is complete bull****. Format a large drive with FAT32 and
force it to use 4kb clusters and you kill the other FAT32 argument about
wasted slack-space.
  #22  
Old March 7th 14, 03:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Hot-Text wrote:

As I say Windows 98 SE is a Web Server

NT, 2000, XP Suck as Web server


I have two machines, each of them P3-800 mhz, Gigabyte motherboard,
BX440 chipset. One has 512mb ram, the other has 768 mb. Both have 500
gb IDE hard drives. Both are running NT4 Server. One has IIS 4 and is
used as a web server. The other runs post.office (smtp server) and
AccPac accounting data base (SQL server). They've both been in service
since 1999 on a continuous basis.

If it's not broke - don't fix it.
  #23  
Old March 7th 14, 08:46 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default (SQL server) run good on Win7

"98 Guy" "98"@Guy. com wrote in message ...
Hot-Text wrote:
As I say Windows 98 SE is a Web Server
NT, 2000, XP Suck as Web server

I have two machines, each of them P3-800 mhz, Gigabyte motherboard,
BX440 chipset. One has 512mb ram, the other has 768 mb. Both have 500
gb IDE hard drives. Both are running NT4 Server. One has IIS 4 and is
used as a web server. The other runs post.office (smtp server) and
AccPac accounting data base (SQL server). They've both been in service
since 1999 on a continuous basis.

If it's not broke - don't fix it.


(SQL server) run good on Win7 Lol

Don't add to it
Will Not Brake

No Fix Needed


  #24  
Old March 8th 14, 01:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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98 Guy "98"@guy. com wrote:
Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

There are tons of now almost worthless PCs around with ~2/GHz CPUs
and 1GB RAM (actually that's probably a bit conservative).


That's what I've been trying to tell him.

And god knows why he needs ISA slots (most probably there's an ancient
sound card he's trying to hang on to, or possibly one of those FM-radio
tuner cards - I have one or two of those).


Yes one of the fabled most rediculous internal PC devices widely produced.
Never seen one myself though, perhaps they never made it that far into
Australia...

Mind you, there were a few special uses for the ISA port that were
a bit more purposeful than being able to say "look! I can play radio on my
PC!". For example I recently finished grabbing the software for a fairly
good EPROM programmer off a late 80s Compaq Portable III, so now I can use
it in any old PC that I want (in particular one that offers more data transfer
options than one 5.25" FDD that won't work for love or money (I'll save you
from details of the hassle that was getting the software off)). a good
EPROM programmer can be well in the hundreds new.

If you want to spend your cash, there are industrial motherboards
that have ISA, Parallel, Serial etc. along with all the modern
essentuals.


I'm not quite sure who makes it, but one example of what you are talking
about is this:

---------
MB-P4BWA Industrial Motherboard with ISA Slots
http://www.amazon.com/MB-P4BWA-Indus.../dp/B004HLOQH6
---------

I've built a few XP systems with that motherboard, and I still have 3 of
them in-box, unused. They cost an obscene $320 at the time I bought
them. It uses a socket-775 cpu. It would probably be a struggle to get
win-98 running on it (off hand I don't remember what chipset it uses).


Those are from ADEK (google the model). I was thinking of buying one of
their models a couple of years ago, but I didn't bite.

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Old March 9th 14, 02:55 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
pedro
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On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:45:41 -0500, 98 Guy "98"@Guy. com wrote:

Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

There are tons of now almost worthless PCs around with ~2/GHz CPUs
and 1GB RAM (actually that's probably a bit conservative).


That's what I've been trying to tell him.

And god knows why he needs ISA slots (most probably there's an ancient
sound card he's trying to hang on to, or possibly one of those FM-radio
tuner cards - I have one or two of those).


No such garbage - the main one is a very exotic data acquisition board
which, with the accompanying software, would still cost four-figure
amounts to replace. Not to mention the custom add-on software that
was developed to extend the COTS functionality.

"If it ain't broke, don't fsck with it (especially if it's expensive)"
applies here. The internet-facing aspect is the only real problem,
but that is currently being circumvented by moving that role onto a
companion Win7 box.

In an ideal world a KVM switch would let them reside at the same
workstation, but I've yet to find one that works as described. They
all seem to hiccup at some point. The last one (four-port
"self-powered" - sources power from connected pooters) would fail to
get started if one pooter was powered up from black while the other
was still black. It was a juggling act in starting simultaneously to
get it to not fsck up the boot process by leaving the peripherals
undetected. The previous Belkin one also had issues. The no-name
before that was supposed to be all automatic, hot-key or push-button
flipping, but never did seem to reliably sense which box was being
powered up (we don't leave boxes on 24/7 like MS assume for Win7/8).
  #26  
Old March 10th 14, 02:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
98 Guy[_3_]
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pedro wrote:

You have a legacy DAq setup that would cost thousands to replace.

Is it being used in an industrial or commercial setting?


SOHO

If I had a super-expensive ISA-based DAq board running on a
14-year-old PC running windows 98, the last thing I'd be
worried about is compatibility with Firefox 28 or IE15 or
Flash 12 or HTML5.


You really haven't replied to the above observation or opinion.

I did mention that I had considered a KVM approach to allow the
data acquisition role to continue while being able to use more
contemporary browser(s).


I really didn't follow that.

So you are going to use one monitor, keyboard and mouse, but use a KVM
switch to switch between the win-98 and some win-NT machine?

Do you have such little desktop or office space that you can't allocate
a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor to each computer?

The DAq role doesn't require manned attendance but intermittent
oversight is warranted.


I still don't know why your situation is so challenged that you (a)
can't devote a keyboard, mouse and monitor to the win-98 system, and (b)
why you would even contimplate using the win-98 system for general
computing tasks when it has some presumably important DAQ role to
perform.

What is the data rate (how many kb/sec) or samples per second, across
how many channels, is this DAC monitoring?

Is it saving this data, or is it just monitoring it?

Is it doing this 24/7, or on a schedule, or when-ever you feel like
doing it?

Will the DAQ software run under win-NT (2k/xp/7) ?
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Old March 11th 14, 12:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
pedro
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:08:17 -0400, 98 Guy "98"@Guy. com wrote:

pedro wrote:

You have a legacy DAq setup that would cost thousands to replace.

Is it being used in an industrial or commercial setting?


SOHO

If I had a super-expensive ISA-based DAq board running on a
14-year-old PC running windows 98, the last thing I'd be
worried about is compatibility with Firefox 28 or IE15 or
Flash 12 or HTML5.


You really haven't replied to the above observation or opinion.


What's to reply? You stated "the last thing I'd be doing ...". Your
right to have a view. Go for it.

I did mention that I had considered a KVM approach to allow the
data acquisition role to continue while being able to use more
contemporary browser(s).


I really didn't follow that.

So you are going to use one monitor, keyboard and mouse, but use a KVM
switch to switch between the win-98 and some win-NT machine?


No, I'm not going to. I mentioned some posts back that the KVM
approach had been rejected.

Do you have such little desktop or office space that you can't allocate
a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor to each computer?


No, but it adds clutter that I don't need.

The DAq role doesn't require manned attendance but intermittent
oversight is warranted.


I still don't know why your situation is so challenged that you (a)
can't devote a keyboard, mouse and monitor to the win-98 system


se above
, and (b)
why you would even contimplate using the win-98 system for general
computing tasks when it has some presumably important DAQ role to
perform.


It has been doing both for some years, with the only issues being as
posted earlier in this thread (eg HTML5/browsers).

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But now there is something that
needs fixing. That's what this is about.

What is the data rate (how many kb/sec) or samples per second, across
how many channels, is this DAC monitoring?

Is it saving this data, or is it just monitoring it?


Both.

Is it doing this 24/7, or on a schedule, or when-ever you feel like
doing it?


Not 24/7 but during daylight hours.

Will the DAQ software run under win-NT (2k/xp/7) ?


No. There are later versions of both hware and software that would,
but that's where the big $$ come in.

This is getting entirely away from the original query/comment (and
asked in another post that went unanswered) - how to get Kernelex
established and behaving on this 98SE box.
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Old March 11th 14, 03:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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pedro wrote:

If I had a super-expensive ISA-based DAq board running on a
14-year-old PC running windows 98, the last thing I'd be
worried about is compatibility with Firefox 28 or IE15 or
Flash 12 or HTML5.

You really haven't replied to the above observation or opinion.


What's to reply? You stated "the last thing I'd be doing ...". Your
right to have a view. Go for it.


So this DAQ board is some sort of image acquisition or processing
board? Or a PBX / digital phone system board?

Obviously this is a hobby thing. Your SOHO is obviously not dependant
on the operation of this board.

Do you have such little desktop or office space that you can't
allocate a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor to each computer?


No, but it adds clutter that I don't need.


A $75 (new) flat panel monitor, a keyboard ($10 new) and a mouse ($5
new) is - clutter?

You place those on top of your ancient P3 computer (which obviously is a
desktop case) - where's the clutter?

It has been doing both for some years, with the only issues being as
posted earlier in this thread (eg HTML5/browsers).

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But now there is something that
needs fixing. That's what this is about.


Meanwhile my son has just set up my alternate desktop box with
Win7U.


Curious - why didn't you choose to run XP? Much more usable for anyone
coming directly from win-9x.

how to get Kernelex established and behaving on this 98SE box.


How do you know that Kex wasn't installed correctly?

What was it that wasn't behaving?
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Old March 12th 14, 07:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
pedro
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:05:24 -0400, 98 Guy "98"@Guy. com wrote:

pedro wrote:

If I had a super-expensive ISA-based DAq board running on a
14-year-old PC running windows 98, the last thing I'd be
worried about is compatibility with Firefox 28 or IE15 or
Flash 12 or HTML5.

You really haven't replied to the above observation or opinion.


What's to reply? You stated "the last thing I'd be doing ...". Your
right to have a view. Go for it.


So this DAQ board is some sort of image acquisition or processing
board? Or a PBX / digital phone system board?


Nope.

Obviously this is a hobby thing.


Nope

Your SOHO is obviously not dependant
on the operation of this board.


Neither my existence nor livelihood are dependent on it.

Do you have such little desktop or office space that you can't
allocate a separate keyboard, mouse and monitor to each computer?


No, but it adds clutter that I don't need.


A $75 (new) flat panel monitor, a keyboard ($10 new) and a mouse ($5
new) is - clutter?


Yes.

You place those on top of your ancient P3 computer (which obviously is a
desktop case) - where's the clutter?


Wrong. It's a tower case (saves space ....)

It has been doing both for some years, with the only issues being as
posted earlier in this thread (eg HTML5/browsers).

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But now there is something that
needs fixing. That's what this is about.


Meanwhile my son has just set up my alternate desktop box with
Win7U.


Curious - why didn't you choose to run XP? Much more usable for anyone
coming directly from win-9x.


He's in IT support, and that was his recommendation given that he
was/is smoothing the wrinkles. I've been using XP-SP3 on a lappie in
the field since '08, and a Win7 lappie since early 2012. Comfortable
in either.

how to get Kernelex established and behaving on this 98SE box.


How do you know that Kex wasn't installed correctly?

What was it that wasn't behaving?


Don't recall exactly. It was probably two years back. (Just checked
- the folder I d/l-ed into was created Jan 2011.)

renamed old, installed it and some things were "different". Tried a
later version of FF and it didn't work. That's about all I recall
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Old March 12th 14, 05:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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pedro wrote:

Obviously this is a hobby thing.


Nope

Your SOHO is obviously not dependant
on the operation of this board.


Neither my existence nor livelihood are dependent on it.


The board is not involved in any aspect of the operation, management,
income or revenue stream of your SOHO, and you don't use the board for
leisure or hobby. I don't know what's left. And yet it's important
enough for you to devote time and effort on a technical, ergonomic
solution in a cramped SOHO situation.

How do you know that Kex wasn't installed correctly?

What was it that wasn't behaving?


Don't recall exactly. It was probably two years back.
(Just checked - the folder I d/l-ed into was created Jan 2011.)

renamed old, installed it and some things were "different".
Tried a later version of FF and it didn't work. That's about
all I recall


So you haven't downloaded the most recent version?

The last time you putzed with it was 2 years ago?

(Sometimes I really have to wonder about some people)

Download the latest version and run it. When it reboots, it either will
or will not display a message saying that Kex is installed and working.

http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge....elEx-4.5.2.exe

As for Firefox, don't get your hopes up that Kex will make things
better. What I know about that is that some version of FF 3.5 or 3.6 is
the last best version that Kex will allow to run on Win-98 with full
functionality. You will be able to run later versions of FF (I think up
to 15) but anything beyond 3.5 or 3.6 will not have functional bookmarks
or history.

Kex will allow more recent versions of Flash and Java (although Java is
not terribly common for general browsing, but is used for more
interactive websites that have elements with controls such as graphs).
I don't use FF 3.5 because of an issue with while lines being drawn
through graphics as I scroll a page up and down. So I stick with FF
2.0.0.23 and rarely have issues that make it necessary to use another
browser.

For those few sites that give me problems I use Opera 12.02 (which needs
Kex to run).
 




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