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Re: Funny thing, I have an ancient Satellite laptop with it's original OEM Win98FE. I had thought of upgrading to 98SE so I could use my flash drives and USB wifi and Ethernet adapters on it (it only has dialup), but instead I installed some unofficial service packs and USB support fixes. Now it's a hybrid OS but the old Toshiba software doesn't know the difference. 
One of these days I'll probably just image the thing for posterity and put Core Linux on it. In the meantime, it's fun to play with and still boots in about 30 seconds.
My point? I keep my main PC updated and use VM's for any XP-era software I still use...which isn't much. I don't really worry or bother with the old gear stuff unless it affects functionality or security. My old PIII Win2K box is as secure as it was in 2004, it's just not that useful anymore.
My old 2000's era apps and games run faster in a XP VM on my C2D than they could possibly do in hardware from their era. It's the best of both worlds.
Let the old dogs lie, I say.
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| said by caffeinator:One of these days I'll probably just image the thing for posterity... Before I donated my Toshiba Portege 3025CT (Win98SE) to a new home I made a VHD from the HD. Now I can run it using VPC and it runs faster than on the original machine 
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| I intended to to do that, but it's a bit hard when the 6GB hdd is about full and there is no USB2 support for an external drive to backup to.
It'd take eons to image that thing via USB 1.1....lol
It's a cute antique.
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| said by caffeinator:...but it's a bit hard when the 6GB hdd is about full and there is no USB2 support for an external drive to backup to.
I used a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter and put the HD in another box and did the VHD conversion there. It wasn't fast (old slow IDE drive) but I only had to do it once. Booting from the VHD gave lots of "new hardware found" messages and some drivers had to be removed but again it's a one-time thing.
Now I have a virtual antique 
BTW I've used that VM at least once to restore some files I'd never copied to other boxes.
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| Nice.
It's the only lappy I own, so no cables like that lying around. Not worth buying one for it either as I got it for free many years ago.
I use it to surf around in the living room when Nascar is on...the only thing I don't watch online on the main box.
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| said by caffeinator:...so no cables like that lying around.
Having been around and working with PC's since the 80's I have a large collection of adapters/boards/etc. Trouble is I can never find them... quickly anyway 
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| I do too, but for PC's only.
I know what ya mean about finding stuff as I "need" a RS-232 serial cable for an old UPS I got for $9 the other day, but can I find one?
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| Last time I moved I bought a whole bunch of those zip-lock freezer bags (large) and put all like-cables in one bag (e.g. serial in one, parallel in another, USB in another etc). I still have to find the bag I need but at least the cables I want are in there (maybe).
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| said by StuartMW:I still have to find the bag I need but at least the cables I want are in there (maybe).
Haha! Yeah, I know my serial cable is in the box with my old Cisco 678...wherever that may be. Too lazy to search ATM.
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Hmm, I should consider doing that with the WinME box I keep around just to run some software for my watch (old school Timex Datalink, oh yeah). I wonder if it will actually work in the VM.
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| said by sivran: I wonder if it will actually work in the VM.
Should do unless you need to use USB. That doesn't work in VPC 2007 but might in Win7 (?).
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