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olsztyn
My first computer, along with books to learn and read, set me back nearly $3000 American dollars, though a few years later, a laptop cost under $2000, but BOTH of those numbers are well beyond what any of us wants to spend these days!
In those archaic times I also spent a lot for my first 80286 PC – close to $1500. In the past 6-10 years I never bought any of my laptops for more than $200 and some for less than $100. Used ones, including i5 and i7… They are perfectly fine for anything I do or anyone I know does. Provided you do not run Windows 11 that is…
A few years ago I had to retire my Thinkpad T23 laptop from about year 2000 and T60 from something like 2006 only due to hardware failure – 32 bit ones…I would like to suggest that there needs to be care to preserve usability for 32-bit limited RAM systems. Whatever is done should be removable for those who do not have 64-bit and 4GB of RAM at their disposal.
I also do hope antiX will continue to provide 32 bit versions of this great OS for those old machines, if possible… Even if the share of such machines is decreasing rapidly, support for 32 bit is what sets apart antiX from other Linux distros, in addition to existing general architectural superiority in the area of versatility and modularity…
Live antiX Boot Options (Previously posted by Xecure):
https://antixlinuxfan.miraheze.org/wiki/Table_of_antiX_Boot_Parameters
Brian Masinick
@olsztyn: those old T series laptops were fantastic for their time. I was working under contract around 20 years ago at a financial institution and they provided that generation of laptop. Back then it was possible to plug in a CD and run other stuff live (as long as you did it from home and didn’t mess up the stuff the company put on THEIR system.
5-10 years ago I worked at a different financial institution and they were cautious enough to block that kind of stuff, whether at home or at work.
I suspect by that time the other financial institution also tightened up the control of their assets too. Both companies are among the leaders in their respective niche in the financial services industry.Anyway I gained a lot of respect for those systems and got a lot of use out of them, and eventually acquired one myself. Dell’s D600 series in the same era also had some solid systems; by today’s standards both are really old, but I got a lot of use out of those; I think I’ve used D600, D610, D620, and D630 at one time or another, between models I owned previously and other units I used during various work assignments.
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Brian Masinickseaken64
Our first computer was about $4000, plus the cost of software, another $1000-$2000. And it was green monochrome and ran CP/M. My Windows 11 laptop cost me about $280 as a closeout. How times change, eh?
I miss my T23 running Windows 2000 Pro. It died before I got into Linux but I’m confident it would run antiX just fine. I had a D600 running Windows XP and antiX-17. It has since died also.
I got my NEC 80286 for free (but originally sold for about $2000) and I still use it every week. But no antiX on that one (DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1).
Seaken64
Brian Masinick
Our first computer was about $4000, plus the cost of software, another $1000-$2000. And it was green monochrome and ran CP/M. My Windows 11 laptop cost me about $280 as a closeout. How times change, eh?
I miss my T23 running Windows 2000 Pro. It died before I got into Linux but I’m confident it would run antiX just fine. I had a D600 running Windows XP and antiX-17. It has since died also.
I got my NEC 80286 for free (but originally sold for about $2000) and I still use it every week. But no antiX on that one (DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1).
Seaken64
I gave my oldest D600 to my son. The laptop hinge was partially broken at one point in time but the rest of the system still worked.
One reason I got rid of my 17″ Gateway 2000 PA6A and my Lenovo 3000 T410 was because both were 32-bit systems and I was running out of places other than antiX and Puppy, perhaps one or two other Debian based distros, and so my Dell Inspiron 5558 replaced them. Since then I got a few other old relics that my brother in law was getting rid of; I use them only occasionally to test old systems. I gave another one away to a student who also likes to play around with old hardware.--
Brian MasinickMy D600 had a broken hinge. I had to use duct tape to hold it in my preferred open angle position. I just kept it that way and treated it like a movable desktop computer. I was snappy on antiX.
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rokytnji
Still a lot of atom 32 bit gear around.
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