On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Alan,
> Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only
> 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the
> drives and then do new installs from scratch.
8G drives!!!!!!!!!! Wow, that comes from the previous millenium....
Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office
sounded like it had a Boeing in it taking off!) and I thought they were
old. Now it looks like a young spring chicken in comparison...
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I obtained, free of charge, an iMac G3 (400 mhz?) with a 1 GB of RAM installed about 6 months ago. About a year ago, I got a free Compaq mini tower with a regular cd-rom, 64 MB of PC100 RAM (1 stick), but 4 MB had to be dedicated to video (could dedicate 2, 4, or 8). I took it to my work for a project (my manager couldn't get approved to use a PC for this manner), installed 2 256 MB PC133 sticks a coworker gave me that he had in the trunk of his car from cleaning out his storage. It's running Gentoo with a 10 GB hard drive. No GUI, but eh, who needs that? Runs like a champ.
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- Mark Shields
