Quick Poll, how old is your computer.

[meow2222]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:

I don't know whether to congradulate you for getting this monster
working, or have you taken in for psychiatric evaluation for trying!

Lol. At least it speaks highly of determination to succeed. A lot of
learning comes from such projects.


NT

 

[kony]

Yes but be honest, what are you going to use those old systems for?
Yea a 1 gig system would be OK for a lot of stuff, but basically
switching it on is a waste of electricity!!!

It cansave power to have multiple systems. I have a highly
overclocked gaming system, uses between double to triple the
power of the one I'm typing on at present. When I'm not
gaming it is turned off.

Take "right now" for example, if you hibernated your most
power hungry system and used something with good power
management and only the muscle needed to do usenet, that
will save a far amount.

 

[kony]

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The gfx card was


I did just the opposite...
I had a video card with two, 1 meg video chips in sockets.

the card did not work at all...but rather than waste it...
i removed the video ram and it worked...
turned out only one chip was bad...so i put the good one in
and thus saved one more obsolete item from the recycle bin

An old card like that, if PCI, is often good for
troubleshooting purposes. Some bios problems will prevent
AGP cards from working while a PCI will give output, plus
they use so little power it is an ease on the system power
supply.

 

[pjdd]

An old card like that, if PCI, is often good for
troubleshooting purposes. Some bios problems will prevent
AGP cards from working while a PCI will give output, plus
they use so little power it is an ease on the system power
supply.

Yep. I still keep a couple of old PCI cards for just such
a purpose and they've served me well more than once.

 

[pjdd]

I don't know whether to congradulate you for getting this monster
working, or have you taken in for psychiatric evaluation for trying!

I think I'll take that as a compliment.... <g>

 

[philo]

Yep. I still keep a couple of old PCI cards for just such
a purpose and they've served me well more than once.

I keep all kinds of obsolete parts here...

about two years ago...some guy actually paid me $10 for a 386

though I told him he could have it free...but he insisted.


seems that he was a programmer many years ago
and needed to run his application...but it would not work on the faster
cpu's

he said he wrote it such a long time ago...he could not remember how he
wrote it
and did not want to spend months trying to rewite it for a faster cpu...

so even old computers /old parts can have a use...


that said...I finally sent a few 2400 baud modems to the recycler !!!!

 

[Bazzer Smith]

the 8088 is 16 bit at 4.77 mhz
i have three of them:
the original IBM XT
an IBM Eduquest
and the Compaq "Sewing machine" (two floppies and no HD) Runs Dos3.3 only!

I think I had one of those Compaq Deskpros?
some only had one flopppy drive.

the IBM's can run any 16bit version of DOS (AFAIK)
also can run windows up to version 3.0

btw: the company i work for manufactures indutrial battery chargers
and still has one in current production with a Z-80 based control unit...
it was designed in the early 80's and no need was seen to change
anything...
it's a battery charger after all

I used to write Z80 machine code C9=RET
thats about all I can remember now..

 

[Bazzer Smith]

I still have an Amiga A500 of 1985 vintage and an A1200 from
1993.

I can beat that I have an Atari ST which I think has 256K of memory?
Of course I don't use it anymore, but I did have need to use it recently
to try and see it could be used to play some games I download
(Sokoban), unfortunately I could not get it read the PC floppy discs
I would need to upgrade the drive to enable that unfortunately, other
than that it worked fine.
Prior to that I had a Spectrum 48k :O)
(sold it).

 

[Bazzer Smith]

It cansave power to have multiple systems. I have a highly
overclocked gaming system, uses between double to triple the
power of the one I'm typing on at present. When I'm not
gaming it is turned off.

Take "right now" for example, if you hibernated your most
power hungry system and used something with good power
management and only the muscle needed to do usenet, that
will save a far amount.

Well I have my old Cyrix system which I could use it only
has a 90 watt power supply!! I think my new semp is 250W?
Not sure how much power it uses but it does turn the monitor off
when not it, the old system seems to have forgot how to do that!!