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Hey all, I havent upgraded my pc in a while. I am running windows 98 with my signlab and inspire.
I recently went to add a new cd burner and finally realized how ancient my computer is already. I couldnt even find one for 98.
I am wondering how to go about upgrading my OS and still be able to use my good old software, and years worth of files? Thanks for any suggestions! Brad
Flexi Sign will open your old files, so upgrading to that software is one option.
Just buying another computer to move into the XP world is another option (much cheaper then buying Flexi for example)
This second choice may seem extravagent at first, but I resisted going into XP as long as possible because of using Casmate, then I finally went with the additional computer option it has worked out great for me
Although the extra computer solved the problem, I was still concerned about desk space. I came up with a good solution of getting a KVM switch. I've posted on that in the past, so I'll check back in with a link to more info on that idea.
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Why fix it if its not broke with regard to software......buy another drive for $50 and run XP on that one and keep the Win98se drive to run your software and plotter on if you dont go with doug's idea.Screw spending thousands on software upgrades and OS upgrades just so i can do something in 3 mouse clicks instead of 4,and in most cases its "improved" from 3mouseclicks to 5 to 'simplify' a process and make everything more proprietary. Only you can make yourself turn out better work,the software cant do it,sometimes i wish reality would take hold and people would stop falling for LOOK ITS VERSION 3.5v12433 MY VERSION 3.5v12432 IS GONNA BE OBSOLETE
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one consideration with Gavin's suggestion is that I assume it results in a workflow issue like I encountered when I set up a partitioned drive. In a dual boot situation, once you boot in W98 to cut some Inspire files... you have to close the program, shut down the system, boot up in XP to run your new CD burner, or whatever new technology/programs you end up putting on the XP side... then same deal again to cut another job... save everything, close everything, shut down, boot up , launch Inspire again...
On my KVM switch, 2 keystrokes gets me to the W98 side, output the job, then 2 keystrokes later, I'm back to work on my XP design station crunching huge image files for the Edge or whatever, not worrying about system resources knowing my cutting job is running on a completely seperate dedicated CPU. The time saved offsets the cost of a CPU pretty darn quick IMO. (I lived with that dual boot solution long enough to know this fact)
[ March 02, 2005, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
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