dpatten
Experienced Member
All the threads on thrift store pickups and the like have started me thinking about the shifting age of stuff we find in junk shops, in dumpsters or that we are given by co-workers as outdated junk.
When I first started realizing interesting old computers were being tossed in the early-mid 90's you could pick up IBM ATs and PS/2s in thrift stores for just a couple of bucks. Now those same thrift stores typically have Pentium II or even P3 machines for similar prices. I still have an IBM 5170 that I picked up off the curb in 1995,
I recently had a co-worker give me a "hopelessly outdated" 5 year old Dell.
It's a Dimension XPS Gen3 with a P4 3.6 Ghz processor 2 Gb of DDR2 Ram 512 MB PCI-e card and 2 160 GB drives arranged in a RAID-0 stripe.
It apparently won't play her son's video games at a high enough framerate...
I figure it will work really well to replace the P3 machine that I am using. My wife's is still faster.
Anyone else?
When I first started realizing interesting old computers were being tossed in the early-mid 90's you could pick up IBM ATs and PS/2s in thrift stores for just a couple of bucks. Now those same thrift stores typically have Pentium II or even P3 machines for similar prices. I still have an IBM 5170 that I picked up off the curb in 1995,
I recently had a co-worker give me a "hopelessly outdated" 5 year old Dell.
It's a Dimension XPS Gen3 with a P4 3.6 Ghz processor 2 Gb of DDR2 Ram 512 MB PCI-e card and 2 160 GB drives arranged in a RAID-0 stripe.
It apparently won't play her son's video games at a high enough framerate...
I figure it will work really well to replace the P3 machine that I am using. My wife's is still faster.
Anyone else?