[OKDXA] WTB: Laptop

[John Geiger]

Hi Peter,

I agree, Windows 98 was probably the best windows OS ever. I have done plenty of RTTY and other digital modes with 98.  My biggest complaint with XP is that it is a memory hog.  You really have to have 1.5GB of RAM to make it run decently.  I just bust out laughing when I see some of these laptops on ebay that have XP on them with 64MB of RAM.  Can't imaging how bad that would be.  I know most people don't like ME but we used to have a desktop with ME on it and it ran really good with 512MB of RAM.

73s John AA5JG


--- On Mon, 1/19/09, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] WTB: Laptop
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 7:32 PM
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 19:18, John Geiger
> <aa5jg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I am looking for an older (meaning inexpensive) laptop
> computer with Windows 2000/ME/XP on it.  I am looking to use
> it for logging, internet, and some RTTY so it doesn't
> need a CD or DVD drive on it, but at least 1 USB port and a
> soundcard would be nice.  Also need a network (LAN)
> connection.
> >
> > Anyone have one that is just taking up space they are
> looking to sell?  I can come to OKC or Southwest OK to pick
> it up.
> 
> You really don't want ME.  98SE would even be a better
> choice than ME.
>  I ran MMTTY on 98SE and it worked FB.
> 
> XP would be a better first choice, followed by W2K, which
> is long in
> the tooth at this point, but not that much longer than XP.
> 
> The upside is that older lappys capable of running XP
> should be pretty
> cheap these days given that new ones can be founds in the
> $500-700
> range!
> 
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