Flashing

[strilen]

Can flashing be done with an PC with Widows Millennium , also called Windows 4.9 ?
Thanks.

[Kilrah]

Does that nightmare still exist?!

I guess you'll have to check by yourself.

[dvogonen]

I worked at RSA Data Security when Millennium was released. I am not paranoid, but considering the result of our internal security analysis at that time and everything that has happened thereafter, I would never connect a Millennium machine to a network today. It is about as secure as a condom made out of tissue paper.

[jhsa]

It is about as secure as a condom made out of tissue paper.

I Like the analogy..

[Kilrah]

I really wonder how someone can still have a machine running on Millennium after 15 years... This thing would usually not even stay stable for a month! Upgrading to XP as soon as it came out was the norm... We know the "one good one bad" rule, that one was the worst ever...

[ShowMaster]

Reading this I just remembered I have a dell p1 200mhz with W98 I forgot I put in storage maybe 15 or even 20 years ago.
It has an EPROM ISA buss programmer in it still and a modem.
I'm going to bring it home and fire it up if I can remember how.
I can't remember if it had an Ethernet card.
Maybe all the hackers are too young to remember W98 ha ha.
Good news is all my data files on it should be obsolete by now.




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[MikeB]

I'm actually using a W98 machine now, to format a lot of old 5.25 inch floppy disks before we throw them away.
I also have a copy of W98 running in a virtualPC on my W7 64-bit machine to allow some old 16-bit programs to still run.

Mike.

[jhsa]

I still remember the blue screen of death

[G550Ted]

I still remember the blue screen of death

I don't think it has gone away, only lurking in the background!

Ted

[Daedalus66]

I know it hasn't gone away!

Here's a haiku I always thought captured the situation very well:

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Nigel