>One 3.5-inch high-density floppy disk drive > >VGA or higher resolution (256-color SVGA recommended) >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >For grins and giggles we installed windows 95 on such a system. > >It took some 20 minutes *to boot*. For giggles, Bruce? How many floppies did you have to feed into it?? That ain't funny ;-)
(or did you 'cheat' and use a CD ROM?). Notably, with a little hacking, you *can* run OS 8.1 on 32-but '030s. And 7.6.1 on most of them. On 4MB. And boot in about 60 seconds. Dammit, my 4MB Classic's running in the corner now on 7.5.5. It still amazes me anybody bought that stuff (W95) when you needed a (then) hugely expensive Pentium or really serious 486DX system to _walk_ it, let alone run it. Not that mere mortals owned machines with 16MB of RAM either. My 75MHz 486DX StinkPad ran W4WG 3.11 and it didn't run it fast. I shuddered to think how 95 would run on it. My 100MHz PowerBook 5300 sat across from it and, believe me, it _was_ faster than the IBM. Pretty comparable too, with 10.4" colour screens (although the 5300's was active, the IBM's was passive). The 5300 felt like an iceBook does, like a subnotebook compared to the brick-like ThinkPad. It felt no less solid either. More to the point, you got things done in 7.5.3 on the PowerBook. You got nowhere fast on the ThinkPad with 3.11. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac <http://www.insanely-great.com> mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RD's PowerBook page: <http://www.macpowerbook.com> -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
