Hi Hugh,
On Sunday 15 January 2006 15:14, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:56:19 +0000, you wrote:
> >> I fixed the problem, but I have to get a new PC darn quick! The
> >> current one is 6 years old now!
> >
> >Your complaining !! ;-)
> >I'm still getting good service out of ten and twelve year old or
> > more kit !! My network server is a 12 year old Dell !!!!
> >
> >I still have and use my original IBM 6MHz 286 AT. That must be at
> > least 25 years old..........!!! The date on the hard drive is 1981
> > and it still functions without problems. Can't do much with 5Mb
> > though !!!
>
> Are you sure? 286 didn't become available until around 1985 ish
> (could be wrong but the first I saw was a compaq running Autocad in
> 1986 then I bought an Opus 286 6Mhz with a 60Mb Hdd and 8Mb RAM and
> ran it till I finished my degree and 3 years on then sold it to a
> student's dad and bought a 486 50Mhz (didn't like the idea of a 486
> 2x33 = 66Mhz) then got an AMD chipped unit with a 4Gb Hdd and the
> rest is toytown history.
>
> Running P4 3.2Gz 1.5Gb SDRAM dual channel and upteen Hdds + 2 x AMD
> 512Mb units and a server using another AMD 2100 CPU (I think) better
> have a look and get the dust out of it!
>
> Sir Hugh of Bognor
Without going through old paperwork, as far as I can remember, it was
late 1982 when I got my first AT. No screen, no mouse, and no hard
drive. 64Kb onboard with a socket to take a 30 pin dimm of 512Kb.
I used to save the programs out to a tape cassette machine.... What a
pain that was. Then I bought my first hard disk drive. A Sugart 504.
5Mb as I recall. In those days you were posh ! if you had a black &
white monitor screen. Most of them were Amber on black, or Green on
black. Much easier on the eyes.
I will have to dig it out and have a wander down memory lane. Its not
been used in a while, the battery is probably flat and it will have
forgotten its settings. The last time I used it, it was for swapping
data from 5.25" floppy to 3.5" floppys.
Before you say Aah, it never had a 3.5" floppy.... It origanally came
with a full hight 5.25" single sided drive, which I still have. Though
I don't know why I bothered to keep it !!!! The same goes for the HDD.
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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