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It's rare for me to spend a Saturday night in the summertime home alone. But I did.
Last night, I worked on an old Gateway computer, trying to fix it up for someone in one of the clubs I'm in. (AFAIK, he doesn't know he's receiving it.) I installed Windows 98 First Edition on it (which is what I was given), along with some device drivers I downloaded from gateway.com. This afternoon, I finished installing Adobe Reader 5 and OpenOffice 1.1.5 on it. (I happened to have a copy of Adobe Reader 5 on an old downloads DVD. Adobe apparently doesn't offer previous versions of Adobe Reader for unsupported systems.) In the process, I came across oldversion.com, a repository of older versions of freely-downloadable software. Their slogan: "Because newer isn't always better."
I'm also freecycling my first laptop, an NCR 3180, with its docking station. It's going to a computer engineer who's going to fix it up for his children. Several other people wanted it for school, but they probably don't realize (or care) how old and decrepit it is. No built-in CD-ROM, no USB port, the battery doesn't hold a charge, and the most recent OS it can run is Windows 95 B. It's probably good for text processing only, via Edit or Notepad.
Now that two of my outstanding computer projects have been completed, there's not a lot I want to get done. There's the decluttering, but I don't feel like doing that tonight. Saturday nights are for socializing.
And so I spent my evening watching the Olympics, and falling asleep before Michael Phelps swam his way towards Olympic history.
Last night, I worked on an old Gateway computer, trying to fix it up for someone in one of the clubs I'm in. (AFAIK, he doesn't know he's receiving it.) I installed Windows 98 First Edition on it (which is what I was given), along with some device drivers I downloaded from gateway.com. This afternoon, I finished installing Adobe Reader 5 and OpenOffice 1.1.5 on it. (I happened to have a copy of Adobe Reader 5 on an old downloads DVD. Adobe apparently doesn't offer previous versions of Adobe Reader for unsupported systems.) In the process, I came across oldversion.com, a repository of older versions of freely-downloadable software. Their slogan: "Because newer isn't always better."
I'm also freecycling my first laptop, an NCR 3180, with its docking station. It's going to a computer engineer who's going to fix it up for his children. Several other people wanted it for school, but they probably don't realize (or care) how old and decrepit it is. No built-in CD-ROM, no USB port, the battery doesn't hold a charge, and the most recent OS it can run is Windows 95 B. It's probably good for text processing only, via Edit or Notepad.
Now that two of my outstanding computer projects have been completed, there's not a lot I want to get done. There's the decluttering, but I don't feel like doing that tonight. Saturday nights are for socializing.
And so I spent my evening watching the Olympics, and falling asleep before Michael Phelps swam his way towards Olympic history.
