Tip #11: Installation Time for Win 98 on various machines...

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

June 29, 1998
http://www.gcn.com/print/17_16/33818-1.html

Tip 11: Time is needed. Pentium II systems take 25 to 40 minutes to complete the
upgrade process. Pentium and Pentium MMX PCs take about an hour. For any 486
computers, expect at least one-and-a-half hours for the process to finish. We
had one system that took well over two-and-a-half hours. Also note that
installing over the network may take a little longer depending on traffic and
speeds.

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

June 29, 1998
http://www.gcn.com/print/17_16/33818-1.html

Tip 11: Time is needed. Pentium II systems take 25 to 40 minutes to
complete the
upgrade process. Pentium and Pentium MMX PCs take about an hour. For any
486
computers, expect at least one-and-a-half hours for the process to finish.
We
had one system that took well over two-and-a-half hours. Also note that
installing over the network may take a little longer depending on traffic
and
speeds.

Oh yes, I remember that. My PC was 486 DX4-100, has 8 or 16 MB of RAM and
uh... was it 100MB HDD?.. And Windows 95 was installing for hoooours...I
could probably remember each 1% increase in progressbar as each one was
special LOL.

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

Oh yes, I remember that. My PC was 486 DX4-100, has 8 or 16 MB of RAM and
uh... was it 100MB HDD?.. And Windows 95 was installing for hoooours...I
could probably remember each 1% increase in progressbar as each one was
special LOL.

Oh, ahd it has a VLB video card (do you remember Vesa Local Bus?..) with
512KB of memory onboard with two free slots available to be upgraded to...
ONE MEGABYTE of video memory.

 

[Saucy]

I had a 1MB Trident video card .. only it used a PCI slot 'cause my AMD
486DX4-100 was up-to-date. And when I upgraded from 8 to 16MB RAM the
machine r-o-c-k-e-d . MS Works loaded within minutes!

It's funny what goes on. About two to three years ago a granny client of
mine wanted to learn computers. She had just got a 'new' computer. A
second-hand pentium 133 with 32MB of slow RAM. Her husband thought he got a
great deal for her as he payed little or nothing for it.

It was so sad. But she wanted so much to learn computers.

The thing just choked on everything. It was a miracle if Outlook Express
even loaded. She needed help. I clean reinstalled Windows hoping that might
marginally improve performance. And I scrounged my desk drawers for an old
stick of RAM that would work with it. Only a tad better and Windows update
choked a couple times before it finally went through. But it was so slow.
The disk swapping, the choking and so on and on. We continued with lessons.

Anyway,

At some point I couldn't stand it any longer and out of pity [for myself as
I was sitting there giving her lessons] I just gave her one of my own
computers.

But I wondered .. was it that slow way back when when I had a 486 and P 133?
... and dial-up? Did I put up with that?

She's still on dial-up .. I had forgotten that dial-up existed and had to go
over how dial-up worked in Windows when I first re-installed Windows for
her. I was one of the first people in my city to switch to cable Internet
and never looked back. Man, is dial-up slow. But she was a trooper ..
willing to put up with that slow thing because she so wanted to learn
computers.

She really like the 600MHz Gateway desktop I gave her. It's down in her
basement now, but it gave her the taste for speed so to speak. This past
summer, she went out and bought herself a brand new laptop - good girl.

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

But she was a trooper ..

willing to put up with that slow thing because she so wanted to learn
computers.

She really like the 600MHz Gateway desktop I gave her. It's down in her
basement now, but it gave her the taste for speed so to speak. This past
summer, she went out and bought herself a brand new laptop - good girl.

So you was like a dealer who hooked an innocent granny to Moore's Law
crack?..
Kidding lol...

 

[Saucy]