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| | | (...) that's a very noble thought... BUT (start rant) in the REAL cruel hard world, no one wants them. I've got 2 or 3 guts to pentium 166 and "under" and the best i can hope for is some one takes it from the trash pile come garbage day. (which (...) (21 years ago, 1-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Derek Raycraft
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| | | | | (...) Please, for the cost of the out dated hardware I'd need to make this thing network ready I could buy something 10 times more powerful that was already network ready. You know I'm not even sure I can lift it that high, it's a really big (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | (...) Faster than you can say "Dumpster", I found a HP Pavilion Celeron 400 with 192MB and 5+8 GByte of hard disks. I'm running memtest86 and everything's kosher. The machine was sitting next to a dumpster near our building at the University. Is it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Derek Raycraft
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| | | | | | (...) Was it full of concrete. :-) Derek (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Iain Hendry
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| | | | | | | (...) I *love* concrete. I love the smell of it when it gets wet. Iain (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Calum Tsang
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| | | | | | (...) Stranegly enough, no. It was fully working. Like, even the CDRom drive was working. Calum (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | | | | Re: 486-33 8Mb —Calum Tsang
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| | | | (...) Yup. It's tough to get rid of machines. Several charities refuse to take anything less than P54C/P55C class (ie, second generation Pentium 90-233) and about the only way you'll get someone to take a 486 is if you go and set it up at their (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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