Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:14 PM Cesar Gimenes wrote: > > “An XT is the kind of computer that won't die all by itself. You have to > kill it on purpose." > > I really liked it! > it's a shame I don't have any machines from that time. I have one. They do die by themselves. Mine had a component

Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:17 AM Tom via Freedos-user wrote: > > Hope you dont mind this but I was just wondering about hardware > survival rates. I have a 486 from 92 that still works but most of my > later machines have died before being 5y old. Id did have a 20 year old > 286 that had to go for

Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread Ian Park
On 25/03/2020 16:57, Bret Johnson wrote: I still have an old Pentium-class machine that I boot up every once in awhile.  I think it has an AMD CPU instead of Intel, but don't remember for sure.  Last time I booted it up was probably 6 months ago.

Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread Cesar Gimenes
“An XT is the kind of computer that won't die all by itself. You have to kill it on purpose." I really liked it! it's a shame I don't have any machines from that time. CRG https://crg.eti.br -- Cesar Gimenes https://crg.eti.br ___ Freedos-user mailin

Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread Bret Johnson
I still have an old Pentium-class machine that I boot up every once in awhile. I think it has an AMD CPU instead of Intel, but don't remember for sure. Last time I booted it up was probably 6 months ago. The problem with older computers usually isn't the electronic parts (CPU's and RAM) but ra

[Freedos-user] Off topic - hardware survival.

2020-03-25 Thread Tom via Freedos-user
Hope you dont mind this  but I was just wondering about hardware survival rates. I have a 486 from 92 that still works but most of my later machines have died before being 5y old. Id did have a 20 year old 286 that had to go for space reasons even though it was still working. I was wondering ho