On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:01 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > And there is another issue. > reliability & life expectancy of the pentium 2. > > So you do all this upgrade work on the computer in question, maybe even > buy some memory. Then the diskdrive (or something equally important) > dies.. So how much longer will the computer live? > > It seems a bit pointless to fight the old hardware and install a new OS > when it will die of natural causes pretty soon. > > Have you looked inside the computer - how thick is the dust?
I would guess not that great as it was recently put together for her by someone else (I think he's on this list actually) on a shoestring budget. --Slosh
