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<p>[QUOTE="Paco Smithereens, xfmg-comment: 33, member: 236"]</p><p>Holy crow, that's a lot of research. </p><p></p><p>Well, I watched the whole thing through. </p><p></p><p>I was thinking the other day about Windows 2000.</p><p></p><p>On the day it was released, I went down to CompUSA where there was no fanfare at all accompanying its arrival and the guy at the counter refused to sell it to me.</p><p></p><p>He would not believe anyone except for some kind of enterprise operation would want this OS. Then he tried to tell me he wasn't <em>allowed</em> to sell it. I have never in my life tried harder to pry a consumer product out of the hand of a retailer than Windows 2000.</p><p></p><p>The next day I came back, because the manager I had demanded to speak to was not present the day before, and again argued with a different employee who refused to sell it to me. Only after speaking to the manager and assuring him that <strong>FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I KNOW THIS IS AN NT SERIES OS AND NOT THE SUCCESSOR TO WINDOWS 98 YOU WITLESS STOOGE </strong>(subsequently having worked support in a call center, I became...less unsympathetic to his stubbornness), he shrugged and sold it to me with a bunch of warnings, like handing a machine gun to a toddler, or something.</p><p></p><p>I <strong>quite specifically</strong> wanted an NT-stable OS. The concept of getting "past MS-DOS" excited me. And, aside from initially missing support for CD-RWs (a strange omission), the OS was exactly what I wanted: an OS that almost never shit the bed.</p><p></p><p>Maybe 8 or 9 years ago I saw a Craigslist post where someone really badly needed a Windows 2000 CD for some kind of unique situation he'd run into - old software or something. I agreed to lend him my CD, with the idea that I'd probably never install it again. He basically got it for free. AND THEN DISAPPEARED WITH IT.</p><p></p><p>There are probably not many people on this planet who have had Windows 2000 STOLEN from them, but I am one of the lucky few.</p><p></p><p>I am not nostalgic for old Windows, although I do have a Windows 3.1 install in a VM, so I can amuse myself by trying to load websites in NCSA Mosaic.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Paco Smithereens, xfmg-comment: 33, member: 236"] Holy crow, that's a lot of research. Well, I watched the whole thing through. I was thinking the other day about Windows 2000. On the day it was released, I went down to CompUSA where there was no fanfare at all accompanying its arrival and the guy at the counter refused to sell it to me. He would not believe anyone except for some kind of enterprise operation would want this OS. Then he tried to tell me he wasn't [I]allowed[/I] to sell it. I have never in my life tried harder to pry a consumer product out of the hand of a retailer than Windows 2000. The next day I came back, because the manager I had demanded to speak to was not present the day before, and again argued with a different employee who refused to sell it to me. Only after speaking to the manager and assuring him that [B]FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I KNOW THIS IS AN NT SERIES OS AND NOT THE SUCCESSOR TO WINDOWS 98 YOU WITLESS STOOGE [/B](subsequently having worked support in a call center, I became...less unsympathetic to his stubbornness), he shrugged and sold it to me with a bunch of warnings, like handing a machine gun to a toddler, or something. I [B]quite specifically[/B] wanted an NT-stable OS. The concept of getting "past MS-DOS" excited me. And, aside from initially missing support for CD-RWs (a strange omission), the OS was exactly what I wanted: an OS that almost never shit the bed. Maybe 8 or 9 years ago I saw a Craigslist post where someone really badly needed a Windows 2000 CD for some kind of unique situation he'd run into - old software or something. I agreed to lend him my CD, with the idea that I'd probably never install it again. He basically got it for free. AND THEN DISAPPEARED WITH IT. There are probably not many people on this planet who have had Windows 2000 STOLEN from them, but I am one of the lucky few. I am not nostalgic for old Windows, although I do have a Windows 3.1 install in a VM, so I can amuse myself by trying to load websites in NCSA Mosaic. [/QUOTE]
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