3 Dec
2010
3 Dec
'10
9:48 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
Now I can't really believe you, there can't be such a big difference
within the EU. Don't you have e.g. a university around or someone who
works there? I could give you several Pentium-4 or AMD Athlon PCs for free
if they were near you as they are old by today's standard. Since I don't
collect that kind of stuff, I will junk them as soon as something more
modern falls out of the "system". BTW these systems are all in the
several-GHz range and fast enough, just not on the top of the edge and
over three years old.
A Pentium
III - which you can find in trashcans - runs it with linux.
And linux is free :)
You keep on telling us that things are different between Brazil and the
States, and what is common in one place is not common in the other. Whcih
I happily accept. All I can say is that the UK is different again. Or at
least I've enver found any form of Pentium PC for free. The latest PC
that I've been given was a battered 386SX that, I have to admit, I took
apart for useful bits. monitors, and the like, I do not have spare PC/AT or
PS/2 keyboards, PC
mice or VGA monitors.
Oh, boxes full of them... and nobody wants the (modern) CRT monitors.
Christian