A clever hack revives Windows 98 on a locked‑down internet appliance, but it's not what you'd call a practical PC.

A retrocomputing project shows Windows 98 running on a Compaq iPAQ IA-2 using clever boot tricks and BIOS workarounds.

Uninstall the "Compaq Insight Management" software from add/remove programs (control panel). You Windows 98 Second Edition should now shutdown properly. I was trying to troubleshoot this problem for ...

Devices that were limited to only run a web browser were relatively common around 2000, as many people wanted to surf the Information Super Highway, but didn’t quite want to get a regular PC ...

My father's Compaq box(bleh) is so-unfortunately spitting out the following error on bootup:<P><BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>While initializing device ...