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 > <deb...@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.
