Who has the lowest spec machine
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Well today I just dug my old 486 linux box out of the corner. When I got it its specs were: 80mhz 4 megs ram (built right onto the mb) 124meg hdd onboard 2 meg gfx card 14.4 modem (which needed jumpers soldered on before it would work) 640x480x256 12" beat up old ibm vga monitor 2x cdrom This was my first very own computer that I had in my room (I was 14 at the time, I think) and didn't have to share with my siblings. I ran slackware linux 3.0 and browsed the web using a text based browser. Man was it wicked. Now it just sits waiting to have a purpose in life again. Joe,
With all this disk space, you can buy a net card and use it, use a floppy Linux distribution and use it as a fast, large and expensive zip disk :) Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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The first computer I built myself in (I think) 1997 is still here. It's a testing machine now with images of OSes and IEs so I can make sure my stuff runs on all the OSes I need it to. It's a Celeron 300A running at 375 (I never could get the thing to run at 450, dangit! must've been made in the wrong plant) and some odd amount of memory (like 192 or something). It's got a lot of my oldest living hardware too - ISA modem, ISA sound card, two really slow HDs. But having a dedicated test machine comes very much in handy. --Mike-- My really out-of-date homepage Buffy's on. Gotta go, bye! Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan.
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
My Dad beats the lot of you. He still uses a 20 year old BBC computer with 32K of ram and real floppy disks! It's so well used, the corners of the box have become polished!
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Isn't VMWare pretty pricy? And anyway, I don't think it'd run too well on my text box with its slow hard drives. *shrug* It only takes a minute to restore the machine from a Ghost image. :) --Mike-- My really out-of-date homepage Buffy's on. Gotta go, bye! Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan.
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Isn't VMWare pretty pricy? And anyway, I don't think it'd run too well on my text box with its slow hard drives. *shrug* It only takes a minute to restore the machine from a Ghost image. :) --Mike-- My really out-of-date homepage Buffy's on. Gotta go, bye! Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan.
Yeah, it's very expensive, it's $299 each license (almost an old machine). To be sincere, I've not bought it yet, I'm in the 30 days testing, but I'm seriously thinking of it, I've became addicted to it. The performance is not an issue if you have memory (in my tests, it ran at 80%-85% of my dev. machine speed). I think we'll use it to consolidate servers that are idle most part of day (like our Linux box that is only a CVS repository). The advantage is that you can run several machines at the same time in your dev. machine, it's a click away, and the "virtual machine" file is portable, you can take to another machine and test it. We will be using it to our build machines too. For security reasons, we like to have a separate clean build machine, built from an image every build. This way we are sure that we'll never deliver an virus infected .EXE, but this leads to a manual build process, because of the image-restore part. So, with an "undoable" hard disk, this can be scheduled (the boot can be scheduled), saving us some manual work. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
Does the *original* IBM protable PC count? With its fixed screen 9" orange monitor, and fold down keyboard. We used to develope on it when our company first started. I remember upgrading to an 8Mhz 286 and thinking it was the bees knees. :-D We have the IBM here in the office somewhere. I think its in the anchient history section. Roger Bin Allen
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
I have an old Atari 800xl with some game catridges. Nothing like comparing an old 1980's version of choplifter with the new XBox and PS2 games. DOH! Brigg Thorp Software Engineer Timex Corporation
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
Well I just retired my son's PC and replaced it with a brand new Dell for Xmas. The old one was a home made Pentium Pro 200 on an Intel VS440SX Motherboard, 64mb Ram, 24x CDRom, 20gb HDD, Miscellaneous other upgrades over the last 6 years. Started out originally running WinNT 4.0 and downgraded to Win95 for him 3 years ago. Then onto Win98 shortly before starting WinXP (Whistler) Beta testing April 2000. Whistler ran great the whole time and I only ever found one application that refused to run. The new box is a screamin P4 1.9ghz Dell 8200 with 256mb ram, 80gb HDD, DVD, CD-RW, 64 MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP graphics card with TV out and much more. Pretty much overkill for a 3 1/2 year old that plays Clifford, Reader Rabbit, and educational games but how else was I supposed to justify to the wife my desire to buy another new PC when my other one (P3-933) is only 2 years old. :-D I will be throwing the old PC on the network with a new Linux installation to do some research on API interception on Linux/Unix. ~Cliff
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
I've finally replaced a machine I've been maintaining for someone that was P75 with a 1mb gfx card with my old 350mhz k6-2. And I've just got rid of my old crappy 4mb gfx card for a shiny new Radeon with 64mb DDR RAM. This new(ish) machine (I built it with some help about two months ago) is a 1.4ghz Athlong with 256mb RAM. Still using my old 8.4gb disk though. Out of interest - did you install the XP disc they gave away at the launch? BTW - floppies are old news, so I wouldn't worry. I don't even know if this one still works it's that long since I used it. -- Andrew.
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I was just looking at my poor, 4 year old box with it's old 4Mb ATI video card, it's disfunctional floppy (eyebrows are raised all round) and it's state-of-the-art 32X CD (that sometimes manages 8X if the weather is good) Does anybody else have old, dusty, worn but very comfortable machines, or am I the only one still living in the '90s? cheers, Chris Maunder
I'm still using the PPro 180 I built 6-7 years ago, but it's now ruled by the new server I built for Christmas. My company, however, is being run completely by an IBM box with a P133 CPU, 2 1GB HDDs, and 48MB RAM. It manages somehow to handle 50 Point-Of-Sale terminals, 12 dot matrix printers, manage the inventory, and keep the books for two stores and 100+ employees. Connections are via 9600 - 15,200 bps serial lines, except between the stores there's a 56K pair linking the concentrator chain. It amazes me how well it actually works, even with the 56K's tendency to attract backhoes. The amazing thing about a dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all!