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I am looking for suggestions of freeware to be included in a computer for someone aged 65+. It’s running a P166 processor, 32M ram, W95 for a new user. I’m thinking along the lines of calendars, PIMs, word processor, maybe some card games – basically it needs to be easy to use, small, general interest software.
I appreciate your help. Thanks.
Just a thought. Have you checked some of the sites that routinely have freeware and/or inexpensive shareware available — tucows, tudogs, cnet and most of the PC magazines have download sites where you can get some freeware, testware (try for 30 days sort of thing) and inexpensive shareware.
Alternatively, maybe a search on an engine like Google might turn up something. HTH
Ron M 
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Ian, I have found the Windows version of Star Office to be a bit resource hungry and cumbersome to use. I threfore now recommend 602PC Suite. This is also free and compatible with Office 97/2000. Only has Word processor, spreadsheet, and graphic editor but that should be enough for most average folk.
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