Phasing out support for Windows 98 and Windows ME

[molly]

Hard disk?

If you want to then yes.

But unfortunately there are some obscure setups out there that still run on very old hardware/software combinations, even in this day and age.
- Window 3.x glitch causes issues on french airport
- central heating system controlled by Amiga's

never mind what we might think of that 

[marcov]

http://www.z80.eu/c64.html

Harddisks?

I'm sorry for accidentally editing your post (modify and quote are next to eachother), I restored your post as good as I could (finding the original by hitting back with the browser), please check.

Anyway:

Yeah, possible via the userport (various initiatives exist)

p.s. I really wonder what the c=64 has to do with win95 support.

[ArtLogi]

Clarification for cp/m:

CP/M is still in use with Siemens Simatic S5 contol logics, since the original programming and debugging computers were build with CP/M and more modern ones are virtualising the CP/M. There is ofcourse 3rd party software, but it doesn't have "Siemens" tag in it so nogo for some.

PS. Rubber Mallet technique doesn't work if your system is running from bubble memory, SSD isn't a new innovation. 

[avra]

In case anyone needs a real Win98 machine for some legacy systems, I am using with success for more then a year an industrial pc based on Advantech PCA-6743 board with ethernet, ISA slots and LPT port. It is not fast by today's standards, based on Vortex86DX, and actually not even a pentium but 486. BIOS is a little pain, but it works well for light tasks.

http://www.advantech.com/products/1-2jkn7b/pca-6743/mod_6898c477-fbb5-4e07-a118-d5cca41d4ff5

List of supported operating systems:
Windows XP Pro SP3 x86 (32 bit), Windows2000, Windows98, DOS 6.22, WinCE 5.0, WinCE 6.0, WES2009.