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Old February 17th 17, 08:16 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mark Lloyd[_2_]
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Default No sense in reviving old computers

On 02/16/2017 09:23 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

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Speaking of over-the-hill IDE hardware, not only do I have a stack of
IDEs from 5, 40, and 80G, I also have removable IDE trays and their docks.

Collections of gangs of USB sticks of various sizes take up a lot less
room :-)


I have one (Pentium2 class Celeron) where the motherboard is marked "y2k
compliant". That sounds like it SHOULDN'T mean it's old.

For a "hard drive" is has an adapter to use a SD card. That card has
Windows ME installed. I don't use this system much, just occasionally
when I want to see how my website looks in a very old browser (like the
IE5.5 that comes with it). Strangely IE5.5 is better than IE6 in some ways.

The oldest I have that still works is original Pentium. Too slow for
anything modern, but I have used it for FREESCO (a program that makes a
PC act as a router) to provide a dialup connection that uses my network
(I actually tested IE2 once last year, it was essentially unusable since
it doesn't send the Host: header needed by modern shared hosting). I
know someone who uses such a machine with Win 2000 to play "Spider
Solitaire".

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