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JHEM wrote:

bplaut wrote:i just got a wifi card for my 701c, looking into OSs at the moment

Might I suggest W98 Lite?

Runs a treat on my 701c.

Regards,

James

I took a quick look at that, but it seems that it's a seperate software package that you have to buy (needs the regular Win98/SE to work).

Is there any similar way to achieve the same effects (lightening/slimming down the system load) for free?

Thanks.

edit

My 760CD has just spent a week filling in for the XP box that died, bit slower than I remembered but still works.

farmer kev wrote:My 760CD has just spent a week filling in for the XP box that died, bit slower than I remembered but still works.

When I return to my old laptops, I'm surprised how fast they are. However, my "museum" 701C is running the factory Windows 3.1 install it came with. Watching that boot up makes you amazed at the boot times we tolerate now. I remember a computer-guru buddy tweaking the DOS files when I first got it, because he thought it took too long to boot. Ah, for W2K to load in 20 seconds

I remember how earlier this month I spend two weeks toting around a 33mhz circa 1995 PowerBook Duo 280c when I left the house. That thing is tiny and boots very fast and does everything I'd need a basic computer to do on the road which includes basic games (Wolfenstein, SimTower) and word processing/spreadsheets, etc but mostly playing my old games while trying to look busy. I also have a Duo 230 as well as a 250mhz circa 1997 PowerBook G3 which has been getting lots of attention lately because of how well it runs Photoshop 6 and Pagemaker under OS9.