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[Alejandro Lieber <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

Karolis Lyvens wrote:
> Currently, I have about 10 computers around me. And a heck a lot more
> in basement (so called "cave"). Maybe 40 or more. Ranging from an XT to
> 2.6GHz Athlon. Okay, they're not all exclusively mine (most of them are dad's), 
> but still - using old computers can be a lot of fun: it is always
> interesting to watch a piece of hardware that others call "ancient" (or
> maybe "ancient" enough that they haven't seen anything like it at all)
> perform tasks that it wasn't designed for, play with DOS era programs,
> games, twiddle with configuration, drivers, achieve things that weren't
> done with this hardware in it's era, etc.
>
> It _is_ fun to tinker with old hardware.
True:
I get more fun with a 80286 and an hercules monitor than with a Celeron 
800Mhz
with RedHat 9.

Without images, the 80286 with a 14400 modem, connected to a shell 
acount running NetBSD,
navigates faster than the Celeron connected to a cable IP.


Alejandro Lieber
Rosario  Argentina