Anyone love the old beige boxen?

[1fallen]

When I left, they were still discussing it 2 yrs later. Non-technical people equate more CPUs with ... er ... better. Yeah, that's the word.

I know that feeling, and how do you reply to that, seriously.....?

[exploder]

My 80 year old mother wants an old beige box. She has a tote full of games she used to play on Windows 98. I see a lot of people using old computers as retro gaming machines these days.

[hrsetrdr]

This little jewel actually may be useful still, it has a dual core Pentium D and Windows Media addition. Of course you wouldn't want to take it on the internet, but it could function as a HTPC.
The unique part of this machine is that it has had almost no usage. A friend gave it to me, belonged to her husband. It was in the original packaging, the PC had only been turned on briefly, the IE browser had never been opened, no personal files in the file system. Since I've had it I put it in dual boot with Debian, wishing to keep the original windows install as a...an "interesting" legacy feature.

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