2 Aug
2006
2 Aug
'06
5:27 p.m.
I am a 16 year old high school student who works with
computer daily. I
perfer to work with older systems (386s are fun!) because they are just
so damned reliable. Mainly, I do software development, but when I have
time, I uhh... can't remember.
Welcome to the list!
I'm curious, what makes you consider them so reliable? Are you saying
they're more reliable than modern x86 hardware? I'm curious as I can
understand many of the motivations for collecting other hardware, but
not x86 PC's. I assume you're not running some bizarre OS, that requires
the hardware, that and interfacing with strange hardware that you need and
won't work with newer systems are about the only reason besides games that
makes sense to me.
At the same time my own dislike of PC Hardware of that vintage might be
colouring my perception. After all, most of the systems I run don't make
sense to most people.
Zane