Jackace32

Hi,
My company uses an old DOS-Based program to keep track of sales, employee hours, and everything else basically. It uses DOS files only found in Windows 98, and Windows 98 can only use a small amount of RAM (256MB?), also it needs older drivers, so older hardware.

Does anyone know where to get this hardware, or if i can?

We currently have 13 Win98 computers laying around that we got on eBay, 6-8 in use as cash registers and databases, and 1 I'm experimenting to see if RAID Works (Waiting to get another HDD).

sdla4ever

depends what you need, i might have some old stuff you could use, my room is a graveyard for PC's lol p2? p3? p4? lol ddr?

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DuckieHo

RAID would be depend if there are are drivers for your OS.... doubtful.

If you're having that much trouble... ever thought about getting new software? You have to do it sometime and what software hasn't been updated in a decade?

Keeping track of sales and employee hours? There's at least a dozen common apps for that.

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FatalityxZ

lol, some of my school computers runs on 98. 120Mhz proc and 32GB ram anyone? How bout a 15" CRT monitor?

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bomfunk

256MB RAM, 866MHz P3, 40GB HD, 17 inch CRT!

I win!!!11!!!1!eleven!y=|x+2|!

I don't see why you would use that old software, but rather than hunting old hardware, unless your budget is really tight, I think it'd be better to buy newer hardware and run Win98/DOS in a Virtual Machine. Linux would do for Host OS, so there's no need to pay for licences for new operating system.

Oh and Virtualization is pretty easy - it's not a myriad thing only uber-geeks can do, it's really easy thing these days, so don't worry about that.

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RonindeBeatrice

Win 98 can use more than 256mb of ram.

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bomfunk

Yea, 512MB to be specific

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Jackace32

Thanks for all the quick replies

Using my 44" LCD TV =P

I'll look into that.. wonder if I have a modern computer that I'm not using

For all you guys that insist in upgrading: That would be chaos.

tankguys

We'd have a lot of trouble getting older stuff. Our market is the cutting edge, and even most distributors stop carrying stuff fairly quickly

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