Hello JOHN!

07 Sep 10 20:42, you wrote to 3ROSS CASSELL:

 RC>> I have had many come in having a working machine of that era, but
 RC>> needing to  add a printer or replace one and not being able to
 RC>> find printers that work with  no longer supported OSes and
 RC>> hardware...  (Yes the Parallel Port is deprecated)

 JG>      If that's the only reason they need to buy a new system, why not
 JG> sell
 JG>      them a router that has a USB printer port or one of those netowkr
 JG>      USB Hub devices? Kinda goes back to the profiet margine....
 JG>      Sales look better for a new system and printer than at most
 JG>      a printer, router and network card....

You are talking about newbies here...

But more to the point there are no longer printers in the retail
marketplace outside of DOT matrix, that still sport drivers for anything
but 2k, XP and Vista.

Then some of the printservers you refer to also require proprietary
drivers, same problem.

Hardware mfrs are hesitant to support OS's no longer supported by its publisher.

 RC>> People shouldnt be using Win95-ME on the Internet anyway unless
 RC>> they are  running said OS in a Virtual Machine.

 JG>      Why's that?  Has telnet.exe and ftp.exe changed that much since
 JG> then?
 JG>      Has far.exe released a new version that doesn't work on
 JG> Windows'95?
 JG>      Last I checked, Lynx and Sea Monkey ran on Windows'95.....
 JG>      Oh yeah that's right, because if your on the internet the only
 JG> thing
 JG>      you do is download pictures, videos, and music and play games....
 JG>      That's right... You can't use ftp, nntp, telnet on the internet
 JG> unless
 JG>      you are stuck in the 70's.... It bugs me to no end how people
 JG> think
 JG>      the web is the only part of "The internet"

Very true, but this perception is very much what alot of the non-power
users/newbies think.

But my comment was more to the point of using a old OS that is no longer
patched against the latest threats or which can run the latest security
software that can guard against that which threatens PC's today.

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