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    From Guido@21:3/105.1 to All on Mon Jan 3 10:24:18 2022
    I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case is SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core. There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser. I loaded Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4.
    I am thinking about putting a 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?


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    * Origin: The Lab BBS D'Bridge/Maximus2 Old School OS/2 (21:3/105.1)
  • From Jeff@21:1/180 to Guido on Mon Jan 3 11:29:54 2022
    On 03 Jan 2022, Guido said the following...
    I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case
    is SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core. There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser. I loaded
    Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting
    a 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?

    I'm sending this reply from an Atari 130XE with FujiNet. Using IceTXE as a terminal program, I can kinda/sorta get 80 columns, although each character
    is only 4 pixels wide. At 9600 baud, the performance is not bad. The boot
    time was reasonable, although I can only run this one program without
    rebooting and swapping out floppy disk images.

    Jeff.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Cold War Computing BBS (21:1/180)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Guido on Mon Jan 3 12:58:00 2022
    Hello Guido!

    ** On Monday 03.01.22 - 10:24, Guido wrote to All:

    ..but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can
    almost go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a
    browser. I loaded Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It
    had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as
    slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting a 1 tb ssd in
    it and use it as a bbs machine.

    ..Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?
    ^^^^^^^^^^

    Maybe it's time to "run across" it with a bulldozer? LOL


    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: Ogg's WestCoast Point (21:4/106.21)
  • From seeLive@21:2/128 to Guido on Mon Jan 3 15:56:41 2022
    On 03 Jan 2022, Guido said the following...

    years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser. I loaded

    hahahaha too funny... and, I'm sure not far from the truth!

    re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting

    hahaha ... almost... and you probably spent about a grand on it... and the pi? $35... you gotta love 'em

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    (,``,"> rusty sez... Re-livin' the dream...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: seeLive's rustyHedgehog - therhh.dynv6.net:2300 (21:2/128)
  • From Oli@21:3/102 to Guido on Tue Jan 4 12:09:21 2022
    Guido wrote (2022-01-03):

    I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case is SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core.
    There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost
    go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser.

    What browser are you using? I have a similar old Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60GHz and Firefox opens fast enough on Linux. I guess the HD is the thing that makes it slow.

    1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run
    across a system like this?

    Should be fast enough for a BBS. But hows the power consumption when idle? Isn't it a waste of energy?

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    * Origin: Birds aren’t real (21:3/102)
  • From guido@21:3/105.3 to Jeff on Wed Jan 5 10:24:52 2022
    I'm sending this reply from an Atari 130XE with FujiNet. Using IceTXE as
    a terminal program, I can kinda/sorta get 80 columns, although each character is only 4 pixels wide. At 9600 baud, the performance is not
    bad. The boot time was reasonable, although I can only run this one program without rebooting and swapping out floppy disk images.

    Jeff.
    Ok...You win.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: The Lab BBS (21:3/105.3)
  • From guido@21:3/105.3 to Oli on Wed Jan 5 10:35:54 2022
    What browser are you using? I have a similar old Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60GHz and Firefox opens fast enough on Linux. I guess the HD is the thing that makes it slow.

    I tried Firefox and Chrome. Both were slow to open. I just loaded up
    MintLinux and a 1tb ssd. Still slow although boot time decreased.
    Should be fast enough for a BBS. But hows the power consumption when
    idle? Isn't it a waste of energy?

    Probably. I have 7 computers running at the moment so I never really gave
    power consumption much thought. Utlities are a business expense so tax deductible. I'll network that guy to the rest of the boxes and use it for
    file storage.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: The Lab BBS (21:3/105.3)