>I scrapped an older Western Union terminal last week. > >P133, 32Mb, 1080Mb hdd in the chassis, W98. > >Still worked fine, but no one had a use for it; and what else could it >efficiently do now? >
My similar machine helps: 1) heat the house in Winter 2) generate brown noise 3) runs Xerox Ventura Publisher pretty well under Win9x (to be fair, DRDOS and OS/2 also run XVP well). XVP is extremely annoying to run under Win2K and up. I also have a couple of Thinkpad 701C machines that are even slightly *less* capable than that. I'm hoping there will be an 8 GB SSD HD for < $100 so I can have totally silent computing. A 1994-retro netbook, if you like. I'm wondering about Virtual Machines. Is it true that you can get free VM-ware player, run it under 64-bit linux (I'm talking about contemporary 4GB RAM and up machines now), create virtual machines, and run your old software? And is it practical? For example, are the files that the virtualized application writes, accessible in the normal way outside that box? Do you have to move all the files that the virtualized application accesses to a particular partition/folder? That could cause some chaos in XVP. -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
