On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:17 AM Tom via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hope you dont mind this but I was just wondering about hardware > survival rates. I have a 486 from 92 that still works but most of my > later machines have died before being 5y old. Id did have a 20 year old > 286 that had to go for space reasons even though it was still working. I > was wondering how many old machines are still running out there and this > seems a good place to find out!
The current production machine is an HP Small Form Factor desktop with an Intel Core i5-4690 quad-core CPU @ 3.5ghz (with a Turbo mode up to 3.85ghz) Intel HD 4600 graphics, USB3.1, 16GB RAM, a 256MB Lexar SSD, and 1TB and 500GB SATA HDs, running Win10 Pro. The machine it replaced dual booted Win10 Pro and Ubuntu Linux. This isn't dual booting yet. I still have my first PC - an XT clone with a 10mhz motherboard and NEC V20 CPU Hercules graphics, 640KB RAM, an AST 6PAK card with an addirtion MB of RAM (split between RAMdisk, disk cache, and EMS memory, and two Seagate 20MB ST-225 HDs. It hasn't been booted in quite some tine. And I have an AT&T 3B1 - a single-user workstation designed by Convergent Technologies and sold by AT&T. It has a 10mhz Motorola 68010 CPU, Green monochrome monitor, 3.5MB RAM, 5.25" 360KB floppy drive, and 72MB Seagate MFM HD. It runs AT&T Unix System V Release 2 (and will boot Unix and run acceptably in *1MB* RAM. It still boots, buit is in a closet because I don't have a place to set it up. I had this before I got my first PC clone listed above. I also still have my old 32bit desktop, with an Intel Dual-Core CPU, 4GB RAM Ans several HDs, dual-booting WinXP Pro and Ubuntu Linux. It's on a shelf under my computer desk and hasn't been booted in a while. I also still have a working Palm TX PDA and an assortment of Android devices. I've had various other things over the years that got tossed for space reasons, including a Mac that was the last PowerPC model,a Sun workstation, and a Dell rackmount server, as well as several .PCs running older 32 bit flavors of Windows. > Tom ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
