Windows 98SE? What's that?

[yesthattom]

Ok. Pretend that during the Windows 95/Windows 98 years I had a job that let me only deal with Unix-like systems and all Windows stuff was handled expertly by a co-worker so I didn’t have to.

So now I’m helping a non-profit with a donated PC. It is Pentium II, 128M of RAM. It has “Windows 98” on it.

The only network nearby is WiFi. I bought a Linksys WUSB11 ver 2.6 device, plugged it into the USB port, and loaded the driver. However, the system doesn’t recognize it. The manual says it works with “Windows 98SE” but never mentions “Windows 98” without SE.

a. What is SE?
b. Am I fucked?
c. Can anyone near North Brunswick (GSP exit 129ish) loan me the right disc?
d. Would anyone like to just donate a couple thousand dollars so I can get this non-profit a modern PC so I don’t have to deal with any of this?

Comments

[kathdem.livejournal.com]

Hehe, if you've just gotten that box, the company in question doesn't upgrade hardware too often.

Yeah, Techsoup is great - their prices on Microsoft stuff are better than employee prices.

You can run Windows 2000 on a PII box. You may even be able to run XP. Here are the sysreqs for XP: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx. I would concur with another commenter, though, that you want to upgrade the memory if you can.