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    Love old movies, old computers, old music, old cars. Still love to play with my Pentium 75MHz, 32MB Ram, 1.2GB Caviar, Sound Blaster Awe 64. Even planning on upgrading it with a LAN card and getting him out and about on some FTP sites, BBSs and IRC channels. I'm still after a decent looking 15-17" SONY CRT monitor from around 1995-2000 but for now, my 2001 SONY TFT will have to do.

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    First machine we had as kids was a Timex Sinclair, basically a ZX Spectrum Clone which we mostly used to load games on tape an play with...

    On the PC side, my firts machine was a Commodore Personal Computer, with a 16MHz CPU (with the turbo on), 2Mb of RAM and a Hardisk with 42Mb. The OS was MS-DOS 6 and we had Win 3.1 installed.
    Funny thing I sometimes remember was a software to enable sounds on the windows interface. Something that now is anoyingly standard, back then we had to install a program called Icon-HearIt and choose startup and closing sounds, and set default sounds for when clicking on particular icons... good times...
    There was also a software called Icon-SeeIt which gave animations to some icons but that was very heavy and slowed my machine :D

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    win 10 tolerable ? which planet are you from ? worse nightmare ever

    thread hijack, sorry

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    win 10 tolerable ? which planet are you from ? worse nightmare ever

    thread hijack, sorry
    Oh you must be from the hyphenated kit-kat timeline? Yes, I heard it was way worse there. Think yourself lucky you weren't using Windows 98 in the Looney Toons universe, all those folk went blind.

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    I still run windows 7. No longer run updates, if they even exist.
    Yes, my win7 netbook just updated on me yesterday. Even though it's officially a dead OS.
    Despite MS saying they wouldn't release any updates years ago ... they still release updates for major security issues since half the world is still on Win7.

    I also find Windows10 tolerable ... its a bit more like MacOS, and a bit too intrusive, but if you know what you are doing it is fairly customizable and controllable to your liking, but then again, I'm probably more technical than most people.
    When you are one step ahead of the crowd, you are a genius.
    Two steps ahead, and you are deemed a crackpot.

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    I remember using windows xp on primary school, but not much really, and then windows 7 on middle school, on very slow pcs,

    On high school had a macbook laptop i was allowed to take to class so i used it as much as possible unless there was some app that could not run on it (windows only)

    And after that i started using linux but still using my mac for everything, i only use windows for work if really required, my main pc is linux mint and a macbook pro for personal use

    I dont know why windows 10 is bad compared to windows 7, maybe is a thing of having more exposure to each version? As far as i can see and feel it, i think win 10 ok :S

    Now I'll have to look how to run virtualbox and old windows versions

    Also found virtual PC for Mac OS 9, may have to try it as well
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    I have an 8088 made by DTK buried in the basement somewhere. 20M hard drive, 5.25 floppy, 640K ram boosted from 512K with 18 single bit chips, amber mono monitor, hercules graphics card, 1200 baud modem. I really need to clean out some junk.
    Wow, my first machine was almost exact of this, except i had an 80MB hard drive externally wired in that lived in an old shoe box for protection, it had 2 * 5.25 drives and I once stayed up all night backing it up to floppy for it to die at the end - it started my journey into IT that i can't no longer escape from

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    I've got a bunch of old computers.

    Probably my favorites are circa the early 90's.
    They're the HP 95LX and 200LX Palmtop PC's based on the 80186 CPU.

    As the name would suggest, they easily fit in the palm of your hand.
    They can run any DOS app you could throw at them and can even connect to the internet.

    They have more power than all the computers that (cough), guided the rockets to the moon in the late 60's and early 70's.

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    I have an 8088 made by DTK buried in the basement somewhere. 20M hard drive, 5.25 floppy, 640K ram boosted from 512K with 18 single bit chips, amber mono monitor, hercules graphics card, 1200 baud modem. I really need to clean out some junk.
    I had an 8088 with a Seagate ST238 (ST225 20mb formatted to 30mb with RLL encoding). It was a scam. Overheated and crashed all the time.
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    I wish I had my old PC's because I like older equipment (gaming systems, amplifiers, VCRs, turntables, 8-track player, etc etc) and also it would be so much easier to play my childhood favorite games. I bought Gothic from Steam recently and it won't even load. Troubleshooting is a nightmare, I found a patch but much of the support I find is German or Russian so I can't understand what to do. I'm sure I can get it to work but I don't like troubleshooting PC's.

    I would buy an older one but I just don't have the room. I have way too much electronics as it is with Raspberri Pi's and several monitors, keyboards etc.

    Oh and I'm also on Linux, I use Mint. **** Windows. I remember the 3.1 days, I fell in love with PCs but I have more or less lost that love. I plan on building a new PC soon and I'll have a dual boot. Windows will be used solely because there's a few games I want to play. Outside of gaming I'll stick to Linux, it's much better.
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    Oh and I'm also on Linux, I use Mint. **** Windows. I remember the 3.1 days, I fell in love with PCs but I have more or less lost that love. I plan on building a new PC soon and I'll have a dual boot. Windows will be used solely because there's a few games I want to play. Outside of gaming I'll stick to Linux, it's much better.
    I went crazy and made a Hackintosh out of a Dell laptop. Then, using the Clover boot loader of the Hackintosh, I added a Windows and a Linux partition, for a triple boot. I mostly just use Linux, but there are some programs that want Windows. Mac, not so much except for Disk Utility which has come in handy on USB sticks that Gparted messed up.

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