It took about 1.5 hours for the installation. Most of the drivers already installed for the Windows98 platform transitioned over except the printers. I was surprised, even an older HP Scanner connected via a parallel port worked without re-installation of the driver.

Then I installed the driver for the new Konica Magicolor laser printer and the old EPSON inkjet [re-installed] and everything worked.

Over the last month, I added a color laser desktop [important because the computers I use mostly are my Macbook and Acer Netbook, which are not desktops] to my business assets for about $200.00 and I am very pleased.

I own an older version of Microsoft Office Professional which includes Publisher and Access along with Word, PowerPoint and Excel which makes this old system worth the effort to upgrade.

When I could not get my new color laser printer to work with the Windows98 system, I considered purchasing a new system for under $500.00. The problem, new systems ship with the newer Windows operating systems which are not compatible with my older Microsoft Office Professional Software. So instead, I decided to upgrade the Windows98 platform. I saved about $420.00 with this option.

In the package from Amazon today, I also received two USB printer cables and a 32GB Kingston flash drive [along with the WindowsXP upgrade software].

When I was backing up QiSoftware.com for the end of the year [2014], I noted the site archives at over 1GB now. So, I am going to use my new 32GB flash drive to save the 2015 backups for qisoftware.com and hosting-q.com. I should do this about once a month. I save all of my posts [in the form of plain text files] and graphics to external hard-drives as well as the internal hard drives on my computers-- so sometimes I am a little lax about doing site backups.

I have been doing some other things which I will discuss in my next post. Just wanted to let you know how pleased I am with today's efforts.