Sorry: Late reply, due to over a week spent netless.
(Laying in firewood - winter is coming.)

On 06.03.15 11:35, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> Yeah, I'd been wondering about that too.. The last 32 bit mainstream
> Intel CPUs were the Pentium 4 range, from around 2004-2006, which is a
> ridiculously long time ago in computing terms. But then, Erik did
> mention the hard drives were 32 GB, which would date from even earlier
> than then. So he's operating on 10+ year old hardware?

The drives: yes. The mobo turned up its toes a couple of years ago, so I
whipped in another - but the drives are still bigger than I need, and
still spinning. (Everything worth backing up fits on an 8 GB USB stick.)

> I'm actually surprised there's enough memory in the machine to run a
> modern desktop environment and web browser. A 2004 era machine
> probably only has between 0.1 and 0.5 GB of RAM. I think?

It's now a bit newer (VIA C7), and has a whole 1 GB, so no drama there.

Erik

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