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Title: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?
Author: EditorDavid
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 03:34:00 -0400
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The trouble with these "which brand lasts longest" questions is that
if you apply them practically to selecting new models, you run into
the problem that most consumer brands change ownership and/or
strategy so often that by the time one of their models has lasted a
long time, their current models could be built to a different
standard anyway.
On 04/04/2023 12:49, Sylvia Else wrote:
I'm still using the PC I bought in the 1980s. That is to say, there's
never been a time when I replaced everything part at once.
Sylvia.
Over here, that's known as a Trigger's Broom....
I'm still using the PC I bought in the 1980s. That is to say, there's
never been a time when I replaced everything part at once.
Sylvia.
From the 0 >Feed: Slashdot
Title: Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Longest-Lived PC?
Author: EditorDavid
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2023 03:34:00 -0400
Link: >https://ask.slashdot.org/story/23/04/02/0058226/ask-slashdot-what-was-yo >ur-longest-lived-pc?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I'm still using the PC I bought in the 1980s. That is to say, there's
never been a time when I replaced everything part at once.
Up until late last year, I was regularly using a PC that I bought in
spring 2002. Apart from replacing the disk (the original crashed), and adding more memory, it is as bought. Not sure if it will get used
again, even Linux is starting to struggle on it.
Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
Up until late last year, I was regularly using a PC that I bought in
spring 2002. Apart from replacing the disk (the original crashed), and
adding more memory, it is as bought. Not sure if it will get used
again, even Linux is starting to struggle on it.
For the Pentium 1 PC that I'm posting from now, I just stuck with
an old version of Linux (2.4). It's still fine for things like
emails and Usenet. It also dual boots to DOS and Win98 for running
old software that interfaces with various parallel port and ISA
hardware devices. The floppy drive became unreliable a few years
ago but I mainly exchange files via NFS in Linux (still compatible
with NFS v3 in modern Linux kernels), so it's not much trouble even
though there's no USB.
In message <642ca31c@news.ausics.net>, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> writes
Up until late last year, I was regularly using a PC that I bought in
spring 2002. Apart from replacing the disk (the original crashed), and
adding more memory, it is as bought. Not sure if it will get used
again, even Linux is starting to struggle on it.
Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> wrote:
For the Pentium 1 PC that I'm posting from now, I just stuck with
an old version of Linux (2.4). It's still fine for things like
emails and Usenet.
That one is a Pentium II (I can't remember exactly which one). It is
running an old version of Ubuntu, but it won't update anymore, and (unfortunately), it updated Firefox to a version that won't run on it.
It was mainly used in recent times for SSHing into various RPis.
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