Subj : Re: 555 - afterthought
To   : Ed Vance
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Wed Dec 18 2024 08:17:00

ED VANCE wrote:

> The good thing about a BBS message is that someone who likes messing with
> olderelectronics can find old messages that will answer questions they have.

Yes!

> Myself, I waited until many others who bought their Windows XP computer before
> I choose to buy one to use.
> I got mine in 2006, don't remember when they were first sold but I'm sure 2006
> was prob more than a year after they started being sold.

XP came out late 2001. So you were even more laggard than me. :D

> You are someone that remembers when they came in the Store You worked at.
> The XP was a upgrade for the 486DX33 DOS 5.0/WIN 3.1 I had been using.

In 2006 the Pentium 4 was a bargain and the Core2Duo was out, more than 
enough horsepower for XP.
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