On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:10:47 +0100 (CET), Qkano <snapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote/replied to: >Thanks for top posting: taken to it's extreme none of us will need email archives becaus the whole history of the internet could be mailed back and for'ards ... > >Are you not decieving us a little. >Windows 98 was never legally issued on floppy disks. Ah, believe it or not, it was with OEM systems where they pre installed Win 98. They would not give you an original CD, but would give you floppies, and only if you asked. A guy at work actually found that out the hard way. And it was an IBM brand high end computer. Last of the Microchannel machines too, yuck, but that's neither here nor there. As far as I know it was legal. Must have been before Microsoft eased up on OEM versions on CD. Now look what's happening. Is there anyone here with a legal copy of Win XP that isn't OEM? If not, why not, cause they are a third the price of an original and they are legal. Just some trivia, nobody actually went out and bought Win 98 on floppy that's for sure. Funny thing though, is even now when many users have never seen a floppy disk, they are still sometimes needed to install some stuff. I had to put a floppy drive in this computer when I assembled it, but then I took it out and put it in the closet after I got everything installed. I like a lean mean machine :-) My wife's computer never needed a floppy so I never installed the drive I had in the closet. She asked me the other day if she could still make a floppy disc and I said yes, she said with this pointing to the floppy drive in her computer and I said yes, but I'd have to plug it in, it's just filling that hole. Better than taking up space in the closet... -- Jim Davis, Nature Photography, http://easternbeaver.com/ Motorcycle Relay Kits
