A good Win 98 SE newsgroup? OT O.T.

Frank P. Patterson wrote:

My wife is a professional IT administrator. Has been a programmer. Rides
a 19lb (8.7Kg) Columbine [should have raced]. Recommendation is to get
an up to date laptop with XP and forget partitioning and DOS.
Pathfinder must be a legacy DOS item. Windows 95 was better than 98 or
Melinia. But what do I know...I'm a carpenter.

I guess YMMV because I don't agree that a person should replace their
home computer if they are happy with it and it works well. Maybe a
business can justify the expense, but not every human being can for
their own personal use.

I bet "Pathfinder" is Windows Explorer, not a legacy DOS item.

Melinda, who loves DOS and still uses some DOS programs that still work
perfectly well, adored IBM S/370 OS/VS2 MVS JCL mainframes run with
punchcard images that she did application programming on before she had
small fry, thought Win95 was a piece of sewage, thinks Win98SE is okay,
and hates the WinME on her elderly neighbor's computer that she helps
him with

--
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

(Christopher Jordan) wrote in message om...

I also had a strange problem, and left A.R.B.R. rather hastily. See,
I thought I was allergic to OT posts. I guess not! How refreshing to
take a quick look and only finding this single OT post here; and one
with a plea for advice!

So no, I guess I am not allergic after all, since a question rather
than political opinions and arguments is like a breath of fresh air.

Now, for my question; did someone run over Mr. Dolan? :-)

Chris, I can be found on the thread "Highway riding experiences?"
where I am advising Joshua on the best route to ride his trike from
Toronto to Vancouver and also advising him not to become homeless
while he is at it. There really is not a single OT subject thread at
the moment, but I am always here waiting and biding my time for anyone
foolish enough to think they can come onto ARBR and say any damn
foolish thing that pops into their heads on politics or any other
general subject.

Frankly, this newsgroup needs a couple of OT threads as most of the
on-topic threads are boring as hell. Some of you must have rocks in
your heads to be able to keep on discussing the same old things over
and over again.

Ed Dolan - Minnesota

Christopher Jordan wrote:

I also had a strange problem, and left A.R.B.R. rather hastily. See,
I thought I was allergic to OT posts. I guess not! How refreshing to
take a quick look and only finding this single OT post here; and one
with a plea for advice!...

Those trike owners will soon start up with their off-topic postings
again.

Tom Sherman - Blue Earth Cycles Dragonflyer