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Anyone else here a fan of using older computers? Up until this week my Main laptop came out in 1998, and now the one i'm using now from 2002 :) Been playing with a Few Desktops from around 2000 aswell :)

Who else is on this stuff? :)
 
Depends what you want it to do. I would probably consider one as a mail server or web server but I would not want to be running Capture NX2 on one.

I'd probably put Xubuntu on it if it was pretty old.
 
Nope I have a couple of old CPUs that are cool to look at because their pins are like lego but turning things like that on is just too slow and frustrating.
 
Nope... Sssssssllllooooowwwww just doesn't do it for me - unless I'm after the serial port that comes on my ex-works 1.4MHz Pentium laptop... I now browse on a 10" tablet for laptopy stuff (just about to upgrade the main machine to a sandy bridge i7-2600k :))
 
SimonUK said:
Anyone else here a fan of using older computers? Up until this week my Main laptop came out in 1998, and now the one i'm using now from 2002 :) Been playing with a Few Desktops from around 2000 aswell :)

Who else is on this stuff? :)
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I don't care as long as it works. It tends to be that older hardware is more robust, though. And by older, I mean 10+ years older, in the beige computer era.

Can't really complain though tbh, the price of computers has come down more than proportionally to the build quality when you consider, how really cheap they are nowadays.

It's not the hardware that really bothers me though; it's the software. I still run XP in my house and a lot of newer computers are only really geared to run that horsecrap Microsoft calls 'Windows 7'... :D
 
trencheel303 said:
and a lot of newer computers are only really geared to run that horsecrap Microsoft calls 'Windows 7'... :D
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There speaks the man who doesn't like change ;)
 
I sometimes break out my 486DX2 66Mhz with 64mb RAM just for giggles. I play a lot of older PC games on it.

It's more for nostalgic reasons than anything else :)
 
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It's not the hardware that really bothers me though; it's the software. I still run XP in my house and a lot of newer computers are only really geared to run that horsecrap Microsoft calls 'Windows 7'... :D[/QUOTE]

Watch out for the asteroid :)
 
arad85 said:
There speaks the man who doesn't like change ;)
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Quite. Mostly because where I work, this "change" has caused us nothing but problem. I'm not opposed to anyone else using Windows 7 or Vista, I just know for sure that I won't be, at least for quite some time yet.
 
Still using a G3 which must be 12 year old at least, runs the Internet and mail no problem, also does a bit of printing now and again :)
 
trencheel303 said:
Quite. Mostly because where I work, this "change" has caused us nothing but problem.
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Where I work, we're still on XP SP2 and are just moving from IE6 to IE7. Most of the issues seem to be because the IT department (I'm in a fairly large multinational that has centralised IT development) wouldn't know how to build a heterogeneous networking system to save their lives and assume anyone who has a PC only needs to do "office" tasks. If an internal website doesn't work on FF or Chrome, they suggest you use IE6 (thank goodness for IE plugins for those browsers ;)). I'm stuck in about 2005 here...
 
SimonUK said:
Anyone else here a fan of using older computers? Up until this week my Main laptop came out in 1998, and now the one i'm using now from 2002 :) Been playing with a Few Desktops from around 2000 aswell :)

Who else is on this stuff? :)
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yeah I did have an old 486 for 10 years before I scrapped it in 2000

Still got my old 2003 AMD Athlon Socket A 1.7GHz and a P3 Dell that gets used as file/print server, been up for years

:)
 
Thats pretty cool :)

I'm working on an Old G4 mac, to try and get running for an everyday machine :) needs some work doing to it but its getting there slowy!

I'm typing this on a 2003 RM laptop running Fedora :D
 
Scotty Pro said:
Still using a G3 which must be 12 year old at least, runs the Internet and mail no problem, also does a bit of printing now and again :)
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I've used a G3 366 with several hundred MB of RAM in the past, running Panther, and my god it was slow. It was frustrating to do anything with it except boot it and shut it down again.
 
I was using an old Dell optiplex with a P90, 32MB RAM and a 400MB HD as my mail server until a couple of years ago. Running qmail on debian potato. Utterly stable, only time it was rebooted was at the hands of Western power distribution. At one point it had an uptime figure of over 700 days and was still using 0 swap after all that time.
 
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