Hi, Chris, I think windows 98 is my favorite operating system too. I had a computer that ran windows 98 and I rarely had problems with it. I had Jaws 4.51 running on mine. Too bad it went out but I really liked that machine.
Rosemarie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Dicey Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Computer museum? 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! > > -- > Sent using Thunderbird > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
