From: Mark Bell (bytehead_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 16:49:51 EDT
At 08:37 AM 07/20/2000 +0100, Julian Thomas wrote:
>I have a 755CE in excellent shape - 40 meg; 540 meg; external backpack PP
>CD available. I have a friend who is interested if he can reasonably run
>W95 on this machine - mail, netscape (and IE) and not a lot else and don't
>currently have any info on how much space a w95 installation requires.
>His Toshiba (which is in the process of being preempted by his wife) is
>currently using about 1 gig of a 2 gig drive; looks like getting rid of
>the cab files alone would clear up a goodly amount of space, and a minimal
>install should get rid of some fluff, but I have no idea what is required
>for a reasonable setup
I don't think you will run into to many problems. I've run Win95b on
systems with 340meg and greater HDs. Best approach to conserve space is
to copy over the cabs to the HD, install from there, and delete all
files except the cabs afterwards. Then, remove the, "online services,"
folder in program files to get rid of promo stuff and save even more
space. If space becomes a priority later on, then delete the cabs
and do updates via the Backpack.
>Another question - what's a fair price for this machine?
755CE? 486DX4/100? Decent machine. I would say ~$175.00 - $250.00 without
the backpack CD IMHO.
Mark
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