Subj : Re: Windows for Workgroups Networking
To   : SirRonmit
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Dec 13 2023 09:50:00

-=> SirRonmit wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Si> I believe I kept that old 386SX-20 up until the Pentium 1s came out. It
 Si> was an awesome machine and we worked the heck outta it!

There are a handful of machines that surprise you like that.

I had a 386DX40 that felt like it kept up with 486es for some time. I
used it as my home desktop for way too long, skipped the 486es
completely and replaced it with a Pentium Pro system.

I had a Mac IIci with a cache card at work, 12 MB of RAM, and it kept
going the whole time I was there. I replaced it with a Quadra 700, and
when I needed to repurpose it for a creative hire who needed to run
graphics apps, pulled my old IIci out and it worked like a charm.

One company had worked with Intel, and we had a dev box of theirs that
was a Pentium 90. This was 1996, when Quake was big. That system kept
up with much faster Pentiums in-game, and ended up being passed around
the department when people needed a second system for way longer than it
should have.

Later, when Pentium IIs were becoming popular, a crappy little IBM
Aptiva consumer-grade Pentium 233 MMX system I had at my desk would not
quit. I'd play Quake II in it with an add-on 3dfx card and it placed
nicely.

A couple of years later when Celerons and Pentium IIIs were commonplace,
I kept a couple of early Pentium II Dell Dimension G1s running way
longer than they should have - as long as you defragged the drives
regularly, they were just fine for admin work. They outlasted the
company.






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