Question: Do you know any source of information on the Wang computer company? Does it still exist? What’s the history of the company? Thank you for any information you can supply. — Clay Answer: Information on Wang Laboratories Inc. can be found at www.wang.com. The Lowell, Mass.-based company was a computer industry pioneer. It filed […]
Question: I own a six-month-old IPC Pentium 133 with 256K pipeline cache, 16MB RAM, 1 Gig hard drive, 2 Meg video card, 6X CD-ROM, internal 14.4 modem and running Windows 95. Ever since it was new, it crashes with invalid page faults, GPFs and segment load failures, if more than four or five windows are […]
Question: Recently I’ve been getting “Error — Close Program” messages in Windows 95. They say that the program I am running has caused an “internal page fault” or a “general protection fault”. Oh, no! What have I done? —G.H. Answer: Remember when Sesame Street had those cute segments on the merits of sharing? Well, if […]
Question: A friend of mine has a Pentium 100 machine with 16MB RAM, and comes with Windows 95. He tried to install MS-DOS 6.1 into C:DOS which already has MS-DOS 6.22 in there. After installation was completed, the computer was rebooted and he could not get into Windows. The following message appeared: “This version of […]
Question: After the computer fires up and the desktop is on the screen, I get two messages. Both in boxes. The first message box has far.exe in the top right-hand corner with a circle and red X beneath and states: “Could not find ‘far.exe’ (or one of its components). Make sure path and filename are […]