Declan Murphy wrote:

> is it not practical to just use skype etc in this case?

Probably, but it looks as though I'll have to update my Windows system to
2000 or XP (I'm still on 98!).

Funnily enough, only today I was looking at a decent secondhand XP model,
identical to the one I have at work, and thinking it might be time to
upgrade. (That was while I was in the local computer mart buying a headphone
set so I could use skype.)

While I'm about it, perhaps I'd better ask what other system requirements
there might be in order to use skype. Is there anything else I need, apart
from a Windows XP or 2000 operating system?

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John
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