If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today

Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by doug4hn on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:43AM (#5564084)

I've kept every single computer I've owned. Still thrilled with how well my Zeos 386 notebook (from the early 90's) works w/ Linux and that ultra thin Sharp PC-UM10 (from '01) that looks like a small MacBook Air and has an 8-hour battery life.

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Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by zokier on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:47AM (#5564107)

> Still thrilled with how well my Zeos 386 notebook (from the early 90's) works w/ Linux

That won't last long, 386 support was removed from mainline kernel.

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Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by doug4hn on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @09:30AM (#5564338)

Yeah, don't plan on upgrading. Really little more than a "glorified typewriter", but still very cute & light.

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Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by bradleyland on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @09:39AM (#5564387)

> and that ultra thin Sharp PC-UM10 (from '01) that looks like a small MacBook Air and has an 8-hour battery life

You should definitely do a write up on how you're getting 8 hours out of a PC-UM10. Didn't they get like 3 hours under Windows? I could use a simple Linux laptop, even if it's terminal only.

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Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by doug4hn on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @04:55PM (#5567170)

There's still some write-ups out there on the ultra low voltage unit and optional extended life battery that I bought with it.

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Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use... by HeyLaughingBoy on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:45PM (#5566238)

I really wish I had done this. Besides my embedded systems (now I'm casually collecting industrial "computers"), the only non-PC computer I have is an SGI Indigo. It's pretty and all, but I wish I had held on to all the old varieties of Radio Shack/Tandy computers I owned.

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