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Oddity Archive: Episode 258.5 – Ben’s Junk: Hitachi Visionbook Pro 7560 Laptop (or, My 1st, failed attempt at a Windows 98 Rig) (Patreon)

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First off, I assure you I'm in no danger of turning into LGR--I don't have that kind of talent.  Having said that, there are a few Archivian computery things I'd like to cover--but, as I've learned, need period hardware to pull off.  This particular machine was a bust, but another one is in the pipeline (thanks, Chris ;) ).  If nothing else, allow me this partial walk down memory lane.

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Oddity Archive: Episode 258.5 – Ben’s Junk: Hitachi Visionbook Pro 7560 (My First, Failed Attempt)

Full Title: Hitachi Visionbook Pro 7560 Laptop (or, My 1st, failed attempt at a Windows 98 Rig) …because I MUST get my Diamond Rio loaded (ideally, with Diamond Rio songs)! Visit our website at http://www.oddityarchive.com Social Media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/oddityarchive Twitter: @oddityarchive Help out the Archive by making a monthly donation to our ongoing Patreon campaign. Visit the campaign at http://www.patreon.com/oddityarchive

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Stephen Greer

I recently had to go through the pain of finding old drivers for a Toshiba because they wiped their website spring of last year. The internet archive thankfully had the downloads.

Wade Brandis

Ahh... shovelware. My middle-of-nowhere-town grocery stores never had those, but the local Radio Shack dealer had an entire rack of Cosmi shovelware, with everything from typing tutors, shareware game discs, desktop publishing suites... you name it. It was all buggy as hell epsecially the more complex office style software, but it was still fun exploring these programs and seeing what they could do for the very low price. Another publisher of note is eGames, focusing on... games, also found on shovelware racks in the late 90s and early 2000s. While they did publish a few shareware compilations, the majority of their games were from smaller indie developers, mostly out of Europe. Most of them were clones of more popular arcade games, but even those indie developers at least tried to add some of their own flavor to the games whether it be with strange graphic design, slight changes to game rules, etc. I have a small collection of eGames discs I use for my Windows XP computer.

Wade Brandis
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One last thing... in the mid 2000s, I recall purchasing a very similar CD-ROM compilation of old TV commercials from some random dollar store. The video compression was even worse than the commercials off your CD, in fairly standard Windows AVI. You could even browse the disc and play the individual AVI files in Media Player, RealPlayer, or whatever you used. No need to run the software itself! (I largely used RealPlayer for video, otherwise I was a Winamp guy 😁 )