Carl Cerecke wrote:
They donated some stuff to the toy libaray (a 486 running win 95A and 240MB hard drive. It was upgraded to win 95C and required a bigger hard drive - 540MB. They charge $120 (hundred twenty!) for the 540MB hard drive and took the smaller hard drive too. They sold the Avon Toy Library a no-name 1.2Ghz laptop, with no floppy drive for backups, for $2600! They couldn't network the two properly together, and ended up using the Xircom 10Mbit ethernet card in the laptop (it "wouldn't work" with the built-in 100Mbit Lan) All this happend a few months ago. They finally got it working, but then it broke somewhow a few weeks ago.
Last night I went to the toy library and fixed it all. Got it working with the laptop in-built LAN, and got the toy library software (what a piece of &*!@ that is) going correctly. Just before I went home, the keyboard on the desktop died. Lucky I had a spare in the car. By the way, the toy library software states a minimum spec of P2 233. The Avon Toy Library is running it on a 486. If anybody would like to donate a p2 233 class machine I'm sure the Avon Toy Library would be most grateful.
I also found out last night that the Win 95 on the 486 doesn't have a license or CD-ROM. I rang the guy at Molten Media who said I was lucky to have an operating system on it. I pushed, and he relented. I'm going to pick up a license at lunchtime. How do I tell if it is Win 95C, not an earlier release?
If there was any reasonable toy library software for Linux, they'd be running that, I assure you. If I had free time, I'd code one.
Cheers, Carl.
