Jack Stein wrote in a message to Gord Hannah:

 JS> I have WIN95 installed and my wife and kids occasionally use it 
 JS> for some stupid crap that doesn't run on anything but WIN.

Same here.    Though I'm not even gonna consider upgrading the w95 machine
here to 98,  much less that new version that's out there...

 JS> For example, wife bought a travel guide book for our vacation 
 JS> and it came with a CD that attempts to tell you the fastest, 
 JS> shortest, most senic routes to places.  It only runs in WIN95 of
 JS> course.

Typical.  Those folks will learn,  eventually.  If their software is of such
limited appeal that they end up putting it in the back of a book (seems to be
happening to a lot of people these days),  then they may be more approachable
to supporting other formats,  or at least providing source or maybe an API to
let others get to the data.

I was really into the idea of collecting a nontrivial amount of data on cdrom
a while back,  but at this point in time it's not such a hot idea,  since it
looks to me like way too much of it is burdened with that orientation.

 JS> Also at work, we run WIN95, and I have to fool around with that 
 JS> sometimes when the dorks in charge of our system can't figure 
 JS> out whats wrong.  They have a good handle on WIN I guess, but 
 JS> don't know jack shit about computers or computing it seems...



Reminds me of the guy I used to work with -- 24 years old (I'm now twice that
age) and he considered himself to be "the best technician in there" because
he'd "immersed himself in w98 and now knew it inside and out",  though I did
see him get stumped a couple of times and have absolutely no clue as to how to 
proceed from there.  This guy was the "sales manager" of this retail computer
store,  which is now closed up.

 JS> I guess thats how it is everywhere today....

I'm sure that it seems like "everywhere",  but it's not as bad as all that. 
Only looks that way sometimes because they dominate the personal marketplace
for the most part.

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