Hello Chris and friends,
My favorite was Windows 98, first edition.
I still have it on my Gateway machine which I purchased in February 1999,
that makes it a 1998 machine!
It still works perfectly.
I only have JAWS 5.0 on it but the thing just keeps working perfectly, so it
has the honor of sitting under one side of my desk it is a full tower, and
on the other side is my Dell XP-Home with JAWS 11.
It has a set of Boston Acoustic speakers (3) and sounds better than the
sound system I have in my living room which cost me a pretty penny.
Yes, Windows 98 never had problems!
With Best Regards,
Alan
Miami, Florida
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
"Yes, Blind or Visually Impaired People Can, and Do, Play Chess!!!"
United States Braille Chess Association Home Page:
http://AmericanBlindChess.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris hallsworth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:58 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum?
Hello all!
what was your favourite operating system in the history of computing? Also
what about software? My favourite operating system in the history of
computing is probably Windows 95 and I was using JAWS as my screen reader.
My favourite software was a product by PowerQuest called Second Chance. (I
wonder if anyone remembers having that preinstalled on their old
machines?) I certainly did and it was brilliant! The program is basically
System Restore but for data as well as system. What Second Chance did was
created "checkpoints" at regular intervals. You can then restore
individual files and folders, or even an entire system, to that particular
checkpoint. Checkpoint 1 was always the "initial" checkpoint either after
Second Chance was first installed or you have enabled a drive to be
monitored after it being disabled. One problem Second Chance did do was
corrupt the JAWS authorization keys that were used way back then. You
know, the ones that consisted of a special floppy disk? This is because,
as I soon found out, a hidden/system file jfw.cps was backed up by Second
Chance each time JAWS modified it. So of course when you restored an
entire system to an earlier checkpoint you lost authorization in the
process. But apart from that it was brilliant! How I wish they'd brought
it back to make it work for Windows 7!
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