12 Nov
2022
12 Nov
'22
3:08 p.m.
Fragile? This thing could stop a 9mm. I had a pile left when I retired,
every time corp. gave me a new I one threw old one in a closet, been
refreshing and distributing them to young family who don't know the
difference recently. If you have no expectations it's fast right? Was at
sis-in-law's and a niece was dragging a dell latitude around by the
external scsi cable, (mom removed, set aside hard drive and battery), like
a fischer-price toy, laughed til I cried, so cute. Got an ancient guy I
don't even know with COPD across the road chained to an oxygen bottle, met
his sister, using Windows his nephew isn't supporting on a pc still running
7 and won't make it to 10, should have seen his face when a stranger
knocked on the door and handed him a Dell E6400t fully loaded with FC36
ready to boot and finish in its original case. Great way to make friends
too. Can't believe how fast he caught on, wish I could have hired him as an
admin 30 years ago.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 11:02 PM Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> wrote:
Quoting Linus Sphinx (sphinxtar(a)gmail.com):
After an all night session of drunken research
I've come to the
conclusion
there are no 32 bit linux distros left that will
fit on a CD-R and
actually
install a desktop, hell DVD-R either. Was going
to give my faithful old
Dell i486 laptop to a neighbor kid to play with but I think it's dead
Jim.
Suggestions?
Yes.
Note the year, and recycle them.
I could list all the reasons why trying to keep such ridiculously old
and fragile computers going is a bad idea, but most should be obvious.
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