Maybe my poor baby might wind up a donation to a more techie person who wants a new toy yet. Other Linux versions might work better on that old computer, but they may be harder to try out Live or install, Ubuntu seems to be a good one for just putting in the disk and it just works.
Thanks so much for your help. I also tried saving onto a USB but it couldn't recognize it - I forget exactly what the message was. I never thought of trying to swap the HD into a newer computer but I guess that would defeat the purpose. I wish I could just upgrade this one - emachines were supposed to be cheap versions of the IBM when they came out but this tower would go on forever if only I could add memory and enlarge the HD.
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With not being able to copy those documents to a USB Flash device '' Win98 doesn't support Flash drives '' and no networks card, you really have no way of saving that data.
Windows 98 supported CD drives. One could burn CDs with the data files. Opera Add a comment. I have not tried any of these, not having a Windows 98 system, but a bit of research reveals: Internet Explorer 6 SP1 was the last IE, in Firefox 2 was the last Firefox in Netscape 8 or Netscape 9 are available here. Opera 10 seems to be the last available, here. Safari and Chrome never supported Windows John Dallman John Dallman 7, 1 1 gold badge 25 25 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges.
Strictly speaking all of these are nearly unusable. Almost no website will work using a browser that is more than 10 years old. Nelson As someone who occasionally browses with javascript completely disabled, I can say this simply isn't true. Many major websites work fine, although others don't.
Any my goodness, the web is much faster with no javascript. As someone who still regularly uses Opera 12, I can say that the biggest problem is not so much javascript, but rather the websites which [foolishly] only support https with TLS 1. From a websites perspective there's also frankly no sane reason why they'd lower their security standards just because some stubborn users refuse to upgrade their outdated systems.
Show 8 more comments. Basic browsing functions are enough, in fact such small amount of RAM would not be able to render sophisticated and heavy weight pages. But having a browser under support is always better. Some quick research in the graphical realm also yielded Netsurf and Links -- haven't tried either, yet. And both seem to be actively developed. If you are going this way, you can run VNC client and have a complete Linux desktop at your disposal. Seamonkey 1.
Not as recent as a better answer. Test Test 1. Thanks for the link to a useful repository of binaries for web browsing under Windows 3. However, this doesn't contain any dates for the software, so wouldn't be very useful for answering the question without further research. RCSE discourages link-only answers, so it would be better to include a bit more detail about which of these applications you are recommending. The Overflow Blog.
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