James Byrnes wrote to Will Honea on 04-21-1998
JB> I had originallly planned on putting Win95 on first so I wouldn't
JB> have to do it twice but I will follow your route.
The only real problem is that you may have to put DOS on that
partition first just to keep W95 from insisting on using FAT32. 
Personally, I would avoid that like the plague.  Nothing as close to
write-only memory as a 'dead' OS that used an orphan FS.....
JB> Now I will have to tell my daughter to haul her machine home from
JB> school again.  She is already grumbling that I should have bought
JB> her a laptop. 
Hmmm.. My approach was slightly different.  First, I made HER swap the
motherboard in her original case for one 4 times as fast.  After that,
a full tower was her idea of the right size - the cuts and scratches
were eloquent arguments.  Then I added features: new sound card, extra
disk space, new video card, etc.  All the while I kept mentioning how a
laptop or discount store machine would fare trying to make upgrades. 
The crowning moment was when a teacher friend called to say she had
broken the display on the HP laptop the school system supplied her. 
She wanted to know about what it was going to cost to get it fixed. 
When my daughter heard the answer, that ended all discussion.  The
teacher thought I was joking - until she took it in....
Will Honea 
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