Re: Very old hardware...
On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 05:15:58 (+0000), Long Wind wrote:
> On Sunday, July 5, 2020, 12:59:02 PM GMT+8, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > Why do I keep mine? 1) Sentimentality, as it was the one on my work desk
> > when I retired. 2) Being a tower, it has room for up to 4 PATA drives.
> > The loaned Optiplex only holds one—after that, I'm down to an old PATA
> > caddy. 3) There's no WEEE here, so I'm not sure exactly how one gets
> > rid of it anyway.
> >
> > BTW neither of these Pentiums looks like a museum piece to me, but
> > just so much junk, particulary if you upgrade it, or overwrite its
> > "authentic" OS. Unless you find a use for it, I guess the coucil
> > in your locality is obliged to dispose of it.
>
> such old pc is for fun, not for practical useyou can install old debian, archive.debian.org
> actually i've just bought old pc for 199 yuan(one US dollar is about 7 yuan)
> it has 4G memory, intel E7500, 160G hard disk
> it hasn't monitor/mouse/keyboard
Buy? I've yet to buy a computer. All my machines are castoffs.
> you can see how worthless such pc is
Certainly true, financially. Valueless—not so clear.
Cheers,
David.
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