Hi from Techie2

[oldtechie]

Hi.. My handle is Techie2. I stumbled onto this site by accident and surely am glad I did.

Have been messing with computers since 1981. CP/M was the system of choice. I think MS/DOS was somewhat an offshoot of CPM. All before WINDOWS.

The "PC" was not yet out. "Normal people" did not have computers. Built my first system from a kit. Hard drives were not affordable or compatible, that I know of. 5.25" floppy disk drives were about $500 each.. (Not joking!) If you had 64K of memory, you had a great system. Microprocessors were 8-bit hummers @ maybe 1-MHZ clock speed.. Yes, 1 Megahertz, not gigahertz.

Ok.. so much for the history lesson.

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I repair PCs for friends and relatives for free. I am retired & spend a lot of hours in my shop with PCs & some electronic repairs. I have "extra" older PCs to use to try software you guys are developing here. The only downside is that they are a little slow. (like me)

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I am here to learn more about unattended installs, auto-patching etc. So glad to see there is still interest in Windows 98SE, as well as the newer systems.

Have been playing with some of the software already.. Love it!! I had told my wife awhile back that I surely wish I had a way to update old Windows 98SE OFFLINE. I thought M$ had stopped allowing updates for Win_98 from their website when they quit supporting Win98 last June.

Realized just a few days ago that a newly installed systems can still be patched, but I like to do it offline. I have (most) of the patches saved to CD. And was doing the same with Win_2K and XP... It was becoming a big pain to try to keep up with all those patches. Then weed out the old outdated ones. Only recently discovered (Offline)auto-patching.. What a blessing!

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Thanks to you good folks who are working on these projects and for making them available for free. This is just too good to be true!

How's that for an intro?

Cheers

[N1K]

Welcome to the forums Techie2