Re: Vista on old Dell 4500 ?

But playing with old computers makes you older faster. True fact. Medically
proven... Ben Myers

On 26 Apr 2007 18:58:55 -0700, "paulmd@xxxxxxx" <paulmd@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 26, 3:27 pm, "S.Lewis" <stew1...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Apr 26, 6:12 am, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
To get a really long WOW, why not install Vista on one of the Slot 1
Dells with
a 440BX chipset? Those old boards would handle 768MB of low density
SDRAM and
an older higher voltage AGP card with a reasonable amount of memory.
One could
be retro in the extreme by installing one of the very first 266MHz
Pentium III
processors, or go for burning speed with a 500MHz (or even 600MHz) Slot 1
Pentium III. Talk about a prolonged WOW! Reminds me of when I was
younger.

I would be almost willing to underwrite such a venture with a donation of
some
of the relics that I have not yet scrapped or sold to an exporter, but
only if I
could watch... Ben Myers

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:04:22 -0500, "S.Lewis" <stew1...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And you are a certified masochist? ... Ben Myers

That's more like "wwwwwwwwoooooowwwwwwwwwww." I'm guessing.

I have plenty of relics, hundreds, in fact (anyone want a twin 8"
bernoulli drive with 2 20mb cartridges???, Anyone?) . Lacking only
Vista.

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Get ready for punch card stories... ............

(ducking)

That is all.

I deny Being an old guy! ;) I'm only 29. It's just that by the nature
of my job, I get to see, and play with (um make that "work on") some
really old, and sometimes really oddball stuff. (Computer recycling)

http://www.lanecrrc.org/news/index.php
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