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GUEST,bigJ Tech: Laptops (31) RE: Tech: Laptops 17 Mar 10


This may be the thread where someone can advise me.
My desktop - with which I'm very happy, come to me about ten years ago with Windows ME as the operating system. Now, of course, that OS is no longer supported by Windows. As a consequence of that, I had difficulty not long ago getting a new printer locally but managed it through Amazon.
Now I find that Youtube and some other sites don't support my Internet Explorer Version 6 browser, and I can't download a later Windows/Firefox update.
It all seems that there is a conspiracy to make me buy a new computer - which I might consider if it were not for the fact that on my ME operating system is a database that runs on MS/DOS. I have been very happy with it and have been inputting data for the past 15 years so I wouldn't want to lose that.
I could buy an update of the database so that it would run on a new system, but I am told that it would cost more than a new computer.
Any suggestions with regard to a new desktop and, specifically, one that I could transfer my MS/DOS database to?
Any help would be appreciated.
bigJ


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