V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I have a couple oldie-goldies out in the shop and in here in the house, but my "special antique" is an old Gateway that runs what many consider one of the finest microprocessors ever produced by American Micro Devices... the Athlon K7 Thunderbird. The AMD Athlon K7 machine that I actually built and used as my main system back then (ericsbane02) is still being used by the friend that I gave it to 5 years ago. The AMD Athlon K7 that I have out in my shop was one of my brother's old systems. What a workhorse that K7 was! And Oh! How it liked being overclocked. AMD Athlon K7 Thunderbird CPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 K7 900MHz was my main machine for a while. Made Win2k sing back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Yeah... I have a user that is seemingly incapable of learning anything new. She had a rash of learning back in 98-2000, and since than has not taken the time or been able (hard to say which) to learn anything new. I think she's still on xp, but does have an iPhone/iPad. Switching her office suite, for example, would be disastrous. She knows that x widget is contained in the Y menu, etc. She even uses stationary in her email! *puke* Adam Yuck on the outlook express stationary crap! As if anyone else would see that stationary the way she does if they don't use outlook express. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Hello, I thought I would suggest a Linux LiveCD like KNOPPIX as it seems to have modest hardware requirements. PuppyLinux might be another option as well. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I have found that either Linux Mint 13 MATE or Xubuntu 12.04 seem to be good choices on a variety of old hardware. Nonetheless I have given up on the idea of installing Linux on Athlon XP and Pentium III or older. Flash won't work any more and unless you are using the machine as a CLI appliance, you'll likely want Flash to operate. There seems to be about a 10 year rolling window for old hardware with Linux. When I started it was ca. 1997 or newer machines worked well. Now it's about 2004 or newer. I do have a 1998 Pentium II that will run Anti-X but why???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 lol! yeah, i actually got a piece of email on "stationary" the other day... i was amazed. i dress my email up with bold, italics or red lettering, indents or bullets, and an occasional table. once in a blue moon, i put a small graphic as bookends to a paragraph. How 'bout capital letters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 The day that happens is the day Temmu goes offline due to a stack overflow. Adam 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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