iLemming with an Intel Question

Please don't laugh (too much).  I need to help upgrade my aunts computer and she won't have a Mac.  Doesn't want to learn a new anything.  Her present machine is 133MHZ, 16MB RAM (72 pin SIMM) no USB, running Win95.  She can't spend more than $200.00(US).  I haven't used an X86 since Windows 3.1 but I'm the IT.

Question:

What do we want to be looking for?
Thank you

Yeah, that's not really upgradable, not for $200.  Especially if it is in an old AT case with an AT power supply.

Windows 95 will be a bit more responsive and a bit less flaky if you pull out the existing memory (probably either a pair of 8MB or four 4MB SIMMs--and no, you won't be able to sell them, at least not to anyone who knows what they are) and put in a pair of 32MB SIMMs.  64MB is the upper limit of memory that the memory manager in the Windows 95 kernel can access anyway, except for the very last build of Windows 95, which could go up to 96MB.

If she for whatever reason needs USB functionality there are PCI USB cards that aren't too outrageous but all but the last two builds of Windows 95 will require you to hunt down and install the no-longer-supported USB patch, which may require quite some time.

You'd be a lot better off spending that $200 on a used Pentium III system, in my opinion.