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What is the oldest computer that could be used today for real work?

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First post	2021-09-05 09:55 +0000
Last post	2021-10-08 07:27 -0700
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#219183

From	"vladimir...@gmail.com" <vladimir.rodionov@gmail.com>
Date	2021-10-01 04:38 -0700
Message-ID	<8b1bbdea-6968-4567-9101-9a5fd794fa84n@googlegroups.com>
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A real life example. My father-in-law is a math professor of some notoriety, he had his own wiki page for a while. He is semi-retired and works from home. I was surprised to see that his system is a P-100 running Windows 95. He uses LATEX, a pascal compiler and Outlook email client.  SO he completely refused to talk about upgrading because his current system does everything he needs.

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#219190

From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date	2021-10-01 17:43 +0000
Message-ID	<1NH5J.151944$Kv2.76406@fx47.iad>
In reply to	#219183

On 2021-10-01, vladimir...@gmail.com <vladimir.rodionov@gmail.com>
wrote:

> A real life example. My father-in-law is a math professor of some
> notoriety, he had his own wiki page for a while. He is semi-retired
> and works from home. I was surprised to see that his system is a P-100
> running Windows 95. He uses LATEX, a pascal compiler and Outlook email
> client.  SO he completely refused to talk about upgrading because his
> current system does everything he needs.

I love to mess with salesmen's minds by gushing over how much
I love something that they sold me a few years ago, crushing
their hopes of selling me a newer model.  Jeff Bezos can take
his "divine discontent" and shove it wherever his ingenuity
may devise and complacency permit.

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Life is perverse.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  It can be beautiful -
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  but it won't.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |    -- Lily Tomlin

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#219256

From	Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date	2021-10-03 12:14 -0700
Message-ID	<1532902189.654981048.615958.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to	#219183

vladimir...@gmail.com <vladimir.rodionov@gmail.com> wrote:
> A real life example. My father-in-law is a math professor of some
> notoriety, he had his own wiki page for a while. He is semi-retired and
> works from home. I was surprised to see that his system is a P-100
> running Windows 95. He uses LATEX, a pascal compiler and Outlook email
> client.  SO he completely refused to talk about upgrading because his
> current system does everything he needs.
> 

Makes sense. Every time you “upgrade” you have to waste a lot of time
re-doing the customizations from your old system that make it so easy to
use. You also have to learn new”muscle memory” things like key combinations
(ctrl-alt-del for example). Your old software may not work, and new
versions may not work the same. It’s a lot of work just to get back to
where you were before.

-- 
Pete

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From	stefano capelli <scapnic@gmail.com>
Date	2021-10-08 07:27 -0700
Message-ID	<36fd4880-fd0b-4242-bc6d-9b9ea73894c2n@googlegroups.com>
In reply to	#218654

https://www.pcgamer.com/dutch-legend-has-been-running-his-campsite-since-1986-using-an-atari-st/

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