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cayugafalls

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9. Don't get me started...lol
Fri Oct 16, 2020, 04:58 PM
Oct 2020

I have all my old laptops running Linux, several Raspberry PI's running RasPlex connected to my Plex server (which runs on my FreeNas server) and our older 60" big screens (I can't get a new TV when the old ones work fine for what I watch).

My main desktop runs Win10 as that is my work/consulting machine. It was running Win7 Pro until my most recent job, then I had to upgrade, but it was no big deal for me, since I consult all the time.

Like you, I have been around computers since the 70's, (heck, my mom was a Systems Analyst and we use to play on mainframes when she got called in to work back in the 60's - paper clip wars with my brother using the office chairs as horses was more fun though).

Back in the mid to late 90's, a buddy and myself, played around with Beowolf clusters built using old Xeon processors and motherboards that we got from the local electronic recyclers. I had a lot of old desktops due to my consulting and upgrading of businesses so most of the parts were free.

I have way to much old tech laying around, Kaypro's, Sinclair's, early Apples, my original IBM 5150 with a 20mb hdd (sucker cost nearly $6,000 new), off brands, etc...

Thanks for the reminisce.


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