raymac46 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Today was a good day to clean out the computer museum in the basement. I took a bunch of stuff to the recycling place, to wit: Ancient HP parallel port printer - "Windows only." It works with Linux but it's slow and difficult to set up. No USB connection dooms it anyway. An old desktop from 2000 that belonged to my wife's friend. It had an A7V Socket A motherboard, Duron 800 CPU, floppy disk, audio card, Rage Pro 128 video card, extra USB card. I pulled out the SDRAM, 2 decent PATA optical drives, and a 100 MB HDD. The rest is junque. Case cannot be re-used - too many obsolete hardware locations, and ugly standoffs. A 2002 Dell Optiplex GX-260 desktop sized machine - 32 bit P4 2.0, 1 GB DDR ram, 120 MB HDD, CD-RW. Took out the RAM, CD-RW, HDD and an 802.11g wifi adapter. This machine had Intel graphics, and no way to upgrade easily as it didn't have room in the case for even an old video card. Wait for it - 1998 Compaq Armada laptop - PII266, 160 MB RAM. Pulled out the 20 GB HDD to kill it and recycled the rest. Can't justify playing around with this old relic any longer. I got it from a recycling place in 2006 and it was a piece of junk even then. Learned a lot about lightweight Linux from it. Even had it using wifi at one point with a PCMCIA card. But it's history now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Yeeesh! And I thought I had some old carp lying around in the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I have a A7 Socket A motherboard with a Thunderbird as my backup machine with a fresh copy of XP on it. Mind you I have not updated for six months or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I have a working AMD K7 T-bird system, too. It is a Gateway that belonged to my brother. It's a 2000 model. It came with Win 98SE originally, I think. I built my own K7 system at one time (ericsbane02), which I gave to a pal of mine who still uses it to this day as his primary system. Great processor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 We have two working order Radio Shack CoCo computers in our computer museum/storage. Also a working Windows 98 486DX2 computer called HAL that used to play music for the house audio system...since retired of course. Believe it or not, the computer that streams to the CNIRadio's Shoutcast server is an old Pentium or Pentium III computer, I think Jim said. He'd have to confirm that but it's OLD. Runs Linux of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 (edited) The old stuff is nice. I just need some room to bring back a Pentium D 840 (Dell Optiplex GX620) that is gathering dust down at my son-in-law's place. It is a pretty good dual core from 2005 with 3 GB of RAM. I'm ready to blow away XP and put Linux on it for good. Edited March 6, 2014 by raymac46 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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