I'm going to break my long silence and actually post a LJ comment. Gasp.
Good to hear from you, Elisabeth. I understand you're not feeling too communicative, so I really appreciate your posting on LJ.
I think I can beat that clunker... I've got a machine downstairs that nobody can bear to get rid of because of all the files, but is so old and overloaded to be useless.
It is an IBM PC. That's not what kind of machine it is -- that's really what it is. An original IBM PC, upgraded with the full memory complement of 640K with three different RAM cards; an an amazing 720K floppy bodged into place with a nonstandard card, special bios extension, and DOS 5.0 runtime; the optional battery-backed clock wedged between the motherboard and the bios chip, a 20MB MFM hard drive absolutely full to the gills with documents -- 0 bytes free! -- and last but not least, the 80286 bus-master board with which one last gasp of performance was squeezed from this unhappy machine. There are no slots left free. This box saw continuous office use from 1981 or so straight until 1996, after which it was replaced by a snappy P133.
I don't think I'm going to be running linux on that one anytime soon.
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Date: 2005-02-01 10:21 pm (UTC)Good to hear from you, Elisabeth. I understand you're not feeling too communicative, so I really appreciate your posting on LJ.
I think I can beat that clunker... I've got a machine downstairs that nobody can bear to get rid of because of all the files, but is so old and overloaded to be useless.
It is an IBM PC. That's not what kind of machine it is -- that's really what it is. An original IBM PC, upgraded with the full memory complement of 640K with three different RAM cards; an an amazing 720K floppy bodged into place with a nonstandard card, special bios extension, and DOS 5.0 runtime; the optional battery-backed clock wedged between the motherboard and the bios chip, a 20MB MFM hard drive absolutely full to the gills with documents -- 0 bytes free! -- and last but not least, the 80286 bus-master board with which one last gasp of performance was squeezed from this unhappy machine. There are no slots left free. This box saw continuous office use from 1981 or so straight until 1996, after which it was replaced by a snappy P133.
I don't think I'm going to be running linux on that one anytime soon.