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On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 05:15:58 (+0000), Long Wind wrote:
> On Sunday, July 5, 2020, 12:59:02 PM GMT+8, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:  
> > Why do I keep mine? 1) Sentimentality, as it was the one on my work desk
> > when I retired. 2) Being a tower, it has room for up to 4 PATA drives.
> > The loaned Optiplex only holds one—after that, I'm down to an old PATA
> > caddy. 3) There's no WEEE here, so I'm not sure exactly how one gets
> > rid of it anyway.
> > 
> > BTW neither of these Pentiums looks like a museum piece to me, but
> > just so much junk, particulary if you upgrade it, or overwrite its
> > "authentic" OS. Unless you find a use for it, I guess the coucil
> > in your locality is obliged to dispose of it.
> 
>  such old pc is for fun, not for practical useyou can install old debian, archive.debian.org
> actually i've just bought old pc for 199 yuan(one US dollar is about 7 yuan)
> it has 4G memory, intel E7500, 160G hard disk 
> it hasn't monitor/mouse/keyboard

Buy? I've yet to buy a computer. All my machines are castoffs.

> you can see how worthless such pc is

Certainly true, financially. Valueless—not so clear.

Cheers,
David.

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Re: Very old hardware... Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-07-03 21:00 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 18:10 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-04 19:20 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 04:40 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 07:00 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 07:20 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:30 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2020-07-05 19:40 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 12:10 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 17:10 +0200
          Re: Very old hardware... Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-05 18:10 +0200
          Re:  Very old hardware... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-05 23:50 +0200
            Re: Very old hardware... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-12 02:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-12 09:10 +0200
              Re: Very old hardware... Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2020-07-12 09:40 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 09:00 +0200

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