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Yep they really were! I was a high school senior (17) when Windows XP was first released in 2002!
(2017 Mom and 2018 Dad) 
I did see that. I thought I read it wrong after I ordered it.
epson still makes and sell them, lots of businesses still use old school triplicate paper...
What ya hiding with the black marker?
Private information.
LoL
make a new disk? could try copying it to c and run from there
Scrrrrreeeeaaacchhh, tick, hum, screeeeeeaaaaach.
Win 98 was the first that could boot from cd if my memory is correct. Maybe it was ME, I really liked Windows ME. I used it for a long time, almost missed XP completely.
We typically had to get our cables made custom, and there was a really good company that only specialized in scsi cables that were ungodly expensive and I happened to pick up some of them for dirt cheap a few years back. I bet they are long gone now too as a company, which makes me sad.
It was easier to set the irq, etc since you didn't have to open the system and mess with jumpers.
If you're doing midi, you MUST get the yamaha wavetable that worked with the awe32. We have this and it was on par with our yamaha keyboards in terms of sound which was killer to have back in that era.
I was much older when xp came around, even older when I started using it over 98se.Yep they really were! I was a high school senior (17) when Windows XP was first released in 2002!
Life mostly sucks now espically after losing both of my parents a year apart from one another
I try to remember how they would want me to feel after they've passed and what they would have said to me, and that somehow gives me comfort even though I do feel sad that they are not here anymore. It really hits me when there's something about life I wanted to ask my dad and it's just too late now. 
THIS! 3DFX makes the most sense for this era and Matrox is the best choice for a pairing.
I still have a bunch from retired hotel property management systems. Those okidata microlines are a beast! I still remember one that was swiped by a call accounting company that had been on 12yrs 24x7--the ML182. I also have an IBM Proprinter XL that we kept since we used it to print forms in 11x17 that we then could shrink to 8.5x11 for use. We used to make a lot of forms in PFS:Write for our hotel operations.
This is what I always did. I would format and sys the c drive in another system, then copy the CD to it. Then move the HD to the system I wanted 98 on and run the setup off the HD--was much faster this way too.
Can confirm.
We didn't have a sound card in our 486, so I would fly around in x-wing to Dream Theater playing on the stereo. My brother beat Doom on our 486 playing one level each night. And Hexen and Heretic were just more first person shooters that didn't grab us that much, but ran on the 486.I vaguely recall at one point using a boot cd then swapping out CDs after it got me to a command prompt... I wish I could remember what or why.
Swapping CDs... this is kinda off topic but at least it involves Win98 on vintage hardware. It's also my origin story for a tradition of drinking during Windows installs. When I do a new desktop build I boot Linux as a smoke test, and if it comes up and sees all the hardware I go get a beer and start the Windows install.
All the win98 install needs is cd support to be able to access the drive. So almost literally any DOS boot that has CD support will work. But the problem is getting that boot on a system which has never booted. A bit of a chicken and egg problem. Hence my solution has always been to sys and format the drive in another system and then just move it over and boot up and install.
Did you sys the drive? It won't boot without a format /s and sys c: done to it from bootable media.
Here is the problem: After I FDISK the drive, it asks to reboot. I reboot and I can't boot from the CD that contains DOS on it.
Yeah, that's the chicken and egg problem. You need a DOS boot to be able to make something DOS bootable, but how do you do that without a DOS boot?
The only kludge to somehow do this will be to boot a vm that is dos (so you have a bootable drive) and then have the hdd recognized by that vm and then fdisk and format /s the drive in that virtual machine. Then the hdd should be bootable if all goes well.
Yep: Floppy, CD, HDD.
