Edit: I am trying to put linux on a compaq armada 1700.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    3 months ago

    Is nobody gonna ask?!? Why do you have a pentium 2? I like old hardware as much or more than the next guy but man that’s old. And this from a guy who has a working Commodore 64 🤣

    • refalo@programming.dev
      2·
      3 months ago

      retro enthusiast community has been growing a lot in recent years, especially with youtube channels like 8-bit guy, LGR, MVG and such

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        I mean I guess. Just in my opinion a Pentium 2 is too new to be old and too old to be new. Something like 386 or a Coco2, that’s cool.

        I deal with a lot of old hardware in my lab but sometimes it’s just too much trouble. But whatever floats your boat. Last thing I’ll be is judgey about what brings you happiness. I mean I’m currently playing with Proxmox on a 2013 Mac Pro because I think it’s fun. And some people (cough …cough… my wife) wonder why 🤣

    • deltapi@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’ve got a 500mhz Celeron from the P3 days, it runs OS/2 and has an ISA EPROM burner card in it.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        3 months ago

        Oh I get it. I hate to see hardware that could be useful being thrown out. Hence the reason I have stacks of 1TB hard drives with no real use.

        I have a long term goal of running my home automation system on that commodore for no other reason than it’s weird. So I get it.