Writing naughty words in 1990

The Wyse 286 PC (model WY-2108 for the curious) used to have an LCD display on the front panel.  You could write messages to it using a MS-DOS based utility.  In theory, you could use it to display messages when something failed.  But, I always wondered, how could you do that when something [...]

Windows 98 Shutdown Patches I used to install

Windows Stops Responding During Shutdown with Mapped Drives map.exe /Q /r:n   

Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement shutdown.exe /Q /r:n

ScanDisk Runs Even Though Windows Shut Down Correctly 273017.exe /Q /r:n

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