3:13 RS232?

Windows 95 and 98 were AWESOME with their PnP, but someone here remembers JUMPERs on extension boards to setup IRQs correctly? 😛

So sick of the insane prices

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internet explorer 5.x 🙂

PCMark took me back

i'd buy it but i live in australia i have a lot of windows 98 pc games or 95 that can run 98 i used to run windows parallels BUT my i mac is too old now to run new versions and my copy cant run on the mac as i updated the os over the years

Watching this reminds me of planet games were you can control mechs. It was kinda like age of Empire’s, but just with machines, and I can never find it.

As much as I actually understand the purpose it does not change the facts. This is an overpriced POS. You could easily buy several used systems which have been meticulously inspected and refurbished for the price of a single system like this, and I have a feeling there is something else going on why it won’t boot a VIDEO ACCELERATOR.. that was just odd.

The reason no AGP graphics cards worked is because the AGP slot isn't actually a real AGP slot. It only supports an add-on card that adds a DVI port to the integrated graphics.

Serial is slow as hell but in applications that don't need high speed but incredible bitwise accuracy it's kind of king. It sends information one bit at a time (which is why serial is denoted with a [10101]). So in a scientific data case you can have an instrument send over a p2p network all of the information of a file including applicable formatting at low speed but high accuracy followed by a checksum and the receiving instrument says "okay" or "resend" if the checksum isn't correct.

I've seen this used on $500,000 modern confocal microscopes (ironically nicknamed "the farrarri" because it happened to be red) to ensure absolute accuracy of the data. It also had a USB 3.1 port but it literally said on the port and the pictures it produced "Data not suitable for final analysis."

The reality is 99.99999999999% of the time that usb data would be just fine. However the microscope company was only willing to validate the low speed serial port as being suitable.

It's can be useful for companies who needs old stuff for their old data they store on old app they used for store them and that's will be a gem for them

i love how Anthony pronounces parallel

Windows 98 was the bane of my existence in college. I lost a fair bit of progress on at least one if not more term papers from the system crashing between auto-save points. Upgrading to XP was life-changing.

I actually have a photos only storage drive that will only work with XP.

9:35 Have some accessibility issues (not legally blind or anything), but, suffer from severe Visual Snow which includes photophobic levels of light sensitivity, and need good headphones for sensory limitation issues when I'm trying to work through a flashback. Absolutely valid point brought up right there.

In my case, I went out of my price-range to by a the new Alienware AW-WTF ever QD-OLED monitor because traditional LED TV's with their backlights are absolute pain for my eyes with lights off, which, is how I live primarily since even subtle light sources can be painful. It was more pricey that other supposed OLED models, but, at the same time, I could be assured that it was an actual OLED monitor instead of a TV masquerading as a monitor. My eyes are thanking me, and, even though it was pricey, it was far cheaper than most other OLED monitors available when I bought it. Same for my headphones, I needed some that were noise canceling and had deep base because my hearing is far above average (about -10 db for most auditory ranges, I'm one of the people that can clearly hear a dog whistle and that one tone that's supposed to be unhearable by humans), and can pick up on things that're very very quiet, if something can't isolate noise, or if the speakers don't do bass well (bass to my ears is like a oil massage with liquid rainbows while laying by a rippling brook), it'll either lead me to hearing background noise which might heighten a flashback (I live in the US, 4th of July fireworks and people shooting guns… stuff like that), or, hurt my ears because audio is usually designed for people with "average" hearing of 0 db for most or all ranges… if you want to stop me, play treble, that'll do the trick, I mean, firealarms, if they're those high pitched electronic ones, those paralyze me and make me a writhing ball of pain that, if it weren't a fire drill, would have burnt up on a few occasions because everyone was rushing outside for a free smoke break and not actually helping out co-workers… I can't have a cheap pair of headphones as a result. Had to shell out $150 for a pair of Skullcandy Crusher Evo's… a bit pricey, but needed.

I don't know why someone would need '98 for accessibility concerns specifically, but, not judging and totally get the logic behind that regardless of not understanding. Sometimes you've gotta bite the bullet and pay more for something that others would skimp on, even if you're not using it for "professional'' purposes.

Worst hair ever award

I love Anthony he's so smart and talks about things in a way that makes it super interesting

I have an old PC I keep around simply because it has IDE ports to read old hard drives with. Never know when you might need it! 🙂

this dude is cool

Also a fun fact about legacy OS’s, the US military uses old Windows OS’s from 95 to XP (at least what I remember from my time in the army). So that might explain why Microsoft still sells legacy platforms

@Anthony, if you need windows 98 original License, i still have more then 40 original DVD with license around in our company Store (Unused with sealed)
if you really need it, let me 🤣