12 Jul
2001
12 Jul
'01
11:29 p.m.
And I could certainly write useful programs on it to
support my hardware
hacking type projects.
And I could certainly do useful work on just about any unix box, however
old. That includes all 386+ PCs that can run linux.
But most people can't. They can't write special software (which generally
The secret of sell ing older computers in the third world (Yorkshire?) is
not to give a rodents back side about copyrights and just fill the hard
drive with a package of the best stuff that runs on the machine. Too much
work to get one or two machines going unless you had nothing else to do,
but a trivial task if you plan on selling containers of older computers.
Even an old computer is 100% better than no computer, and for strict
business uses 386 and 486 machines work just fine.