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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (47566)	7/9/2000 2:43:39 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

As I recall, about that time most of the TV manufacturers went out of business or moved overseas.

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (47566)	7/9/2000 6:45:53 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 74651

Off topic --- Heathkit ... Talk about resurrecting old memories. My first system was a Heathkit: A Z80 and 48k RAM. It may seem odd, but the first thing one typed when the power came on was 'b', and the system added the 'oot' to complete the 'boot' command. This was done after hearing two beeps. HDOS, Harbour BASIC, a hard-sector floppy holding 100k, and almost no software. After upgrading to CP/M, one could get SuperCalc and WordStar. I later acquired MBASIC and MASM-80 from Microsoft, a tiny company in the software business at the time. Fortunately, I bought Microsoft equity (when available) too. I no longer have my early packages, but I still have the shares. Thanks for the push down memory lane. Cheers, PW.

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (47566)	7/9/2000 9:26:22 PM
From: John R Resseger	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74651

I'm about ready to give up. I get a blue screen that says " a fatal exception oe has occurred at 0028:00005338 inVXD vmm(01)+00004338 " I go to Microsoft Knowledge base and type in "a fatal exception oe has occurred " "no matches" I just checked the manual under messages, errors, fatal exceptions! Nothing! Am I the only one with a machine with a blue screen? I have two machines doing this. The screen saver comes on and it freezes.

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (47566)	7/9/2000 11:21:26 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 74651

Bill, article in today's San Jose Mercury News to support your premise: Of the five computers I tried to upgrade, only one accepted the new software without a fight. On the machines where it took root, Windows Me was a welcome improvement over Windows 98 Second Edition. But unless you have an urgent need for the new features, it is probably a good idea to wait until you need to replace your computer, or at least until Microsoft finds and fixes potential software conflicts. sjmercury.com