Yeah, I think the RAM may have been maxed out on this one :)

I just can’t stand having it and not using it (I have a deep love for hardware that other people think is “useless”), so I was planning to use it as a mini home server for basic stuff :)

I had it running Arch with a minimal openbox setup, and it worked nice! But it laggs when it came to browsing the internet, sadly :/

Nice post btw! :D

Thanks for the comment, always nice to “meet” more kindred souls! :)

I thought I was the only one with a preoccupation for old hardware and software, nobody else I knew seemed to. Never did much with it though, partly because nobody else seemed to be into it, but I did love playing with any working old stuff: some laptop only capable of running MS-DOS from a 3.5″ floppy because the 80MB HDD is broken (wrote an own benchmark, estimated 2.7MHz CPU), my grandmother’s Windows 95 machine with a mechanical keyboard and a fan buzzing characteristically… I even used a laptop barely running Windows 2000 and Office 97 for school in 2009–2011, until I dropped it during holidays tripping over something x( Took me forever to get wifi working on it, and it didn’t have an RJ-45 port.

Even now I have the most low-end laptop and smartphone of the entire class (doing some programming study, everyone is required a laptop), and I don’t mind at all. It works perfectly fine for my purposes; its speed simply depends on what you do with the software. Most others don’t care what their laptop is running in the background, as long as it runs their games and Visual Studio… I just can’t relate to that lol. And neither can I understand why people suddenly need a new phone every year (or sometimes 2 years) ‘because their subscription ended’…

Hmmm the point of this comment… nothing I guess. Just fun to see I’m not the only one (almost) never running the newest hardware :)

Oh, right, almost forgot: Goodbye Armanda!

Oh, and Zork. A lot of Zork.

Haha, nice, I spent far too much time during my youth playing The Catacombs myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtDaWKAvnk