I tend to spend entirely too much of my spare time taking apart, putting together, loading, and reloading my computer. So this section will contain an ever growing FAQ -- if I ever get around to writing things down.
My current system is a Cyrix P-150+ w/64MBs RAM, running Windows 95. In it I have an old ISA Cardinal SnapPlus video capture board (1MB RAM) that doubles as my SVGA card, a Soundblaster 16, a PCI network card, 28.8 Fax/Modem, and the board that came with my scanner (Primax Color Hand Scanner). For storage I've got a Western Digital 2.5GB Caviar EIDE, a 4X CD-ROM, and of course a 3.5" floppy.
I have set up a Windows 95 network between my daughter's computer and mine. Currently, her's is a Dell I got from my dad. I added the multimedia, the network card, and pulled the speedy little 486 SX25 chip out and replaced it with a 486 DX66. Still kinda slow but it'll do until the Pentium 2s (IIs, Twos?) drop in price.I was running Windows NT 3.51 and then dual booting between 95 and NT 4.0 for a while, but I didn't find any advantages for home use of NT. So back in March I formatted my hard drive and started fresh. One thing to keep in mind if you do this is to reload Windows 95 you must have access to your CD-ROM drive. If you don't you will be hosed big-time!!
I put this web site together myself, with some hints from David Lozinski. Most of the photos were captured with a Sony 8MM camcorder, digitized with a Cardinal SnapPlus video capture card using Adobe Premiere, manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, and then I used various utilities to put the pages together. I started off with PowerPoint. Powerpoint is great for slides on the web, but not for a home page. Next I tried Word 97. That was better than PowerPoint, but it was still kind of slow and it would automattically put things into the HTML that I didn't want there. In the end I ended up looking at the HTML generated by Word, and modifying it in a text editor to do what I wanted.
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