Subj : Re: 2020 To : August Abolins From : Holger Granholm Date : Thu Jan 02 2020 22:04:00 In a message on 01-01-20 August Abolins said to Holger Granholm: Good evening August, and thank you for an interesting reply to a short message. AA> And the same back to you! As I write this, it is now roughly 4pm in AA> your part of the world, and 9:30a in mine. It's now 19:39 here while I write this and this msg will move on when my system polls my host next time. AA> Hope your 1st day of the new year is great. Yeah it was asa did the entire christmas holiday along with my loved grandchild+wife who work/live in Stockholm, my two daughters on xmas eve dinner with the gift ceremony and a dinner at at my sons home on xmas day AA> I have this day as a time away from work. It is a welcome respite I am retired so I have a respite every day but working people are free from the afternoon of xmas eve and then both on christmas day one and two AA> The *plan* was to do same basic computer clean-up: ... ...... AA> But.. I decided I'll just veg out today. AA> And.. what brings you (OS/2 user) into this WIn95-specific echo? Actually I have friends using this echo and I use Windows 10pro also. AA> This echo was a fine hang-out for many things Windows. AA> Much good help and advice arose. AA> Who really uses Win3.x/95/98 anymore except for limited things? :( Pause.........for news, weather, sport, etc. Well, I do still have OS/2-W3fWg i my office machine with OS/2 Warp 4 but never use that Windows anymore. AA> I was completely happy using OS/2 2.1 and then Warp for my AA> fidonet/echomail/sysop/bbs purposes in the past (until I had a hdd AA> crash). I did also start with OS/2 v2.1 from a demo CD and upgraded to Warp3/Win and then Warp4/Win through various Fixpak's to FP 12. AA> But in reality, the newer OSes (even the linuxes) seem to be much AA> better! I didn't have any of the Win 95/98/2000/7 versions but received a Dell Laptop with Win10pro installed as a xmas gift from my Gs in Stockholm who BTW is the only one of my children/grandchildren that checks my health twice/week. I just had a call from him that forced another pause...... Anyway I found that version so usable that I bought a stationary machine with Win7 and upgraded it to 10pro while that still was free. But I will never trust my BBS to be run under Windows. I had several blue screen crashes "Your PC has got a problem" but after I finally replied to M$ 'Yes I know, I am running Windows' the blue screens ceased. HG> * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. AA> That part of the world looks amazing. 6,700 islands! Yes, it is. I was born and grew up in Helsinki but after a holiday here with my wife we decided to move here 1957. AA> Have a good day, and a wonderful year ahead. Same to you. Have a good night, Holger ... Humor is also a way of saying something serious. -- MR/2 2.30 --- PCBoard (R) v15.22 (OS/2) 2 * Origin: Coming to you from the Sunny Aland Islands. (2:20/228) .