Uncreative Labs

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I think it is sort of neat, when folks report trickng a newer version of an OS to work on an older PC.
Note I waid WORK not use. I waited a half hour and WORD 2.0 would not come up on an old 286.

Things have not really changed over the years.
Today except for HIGH END, XP PRO has beenithe OS of choice.
I sometimes get PC's from a recycling center.
Recently I was given two systems that lived their enture life at a business with 128m of ram and two open ram slots.

Yesterday, I hooked up a PIII -450 with 128m of ram. and XP PRO. I am 74 and almost could not wait to get to some changes I needed to try it.
( black mouse cursor , lower screen res )
I had to wait and wait and wait.

I cannot believe someone sat there and actually used this pc.

Now if we do it as a HOBBY or experiment THAT I can see. But are businesses or individuals so stupid that they spend half their pc-time waiting for something to happen?
It is true that I do not always have a really fast cpu or enough ram. But I also use an older OS most of the time and don't need the latest and greatest.

Your thoughts, is it ignorance, cheapness or something else?

Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 274 Location: USA

sounds like that pc was probly running windows 98 originally. win98 runs fairly good on 128mb, i use a 300mhz pentium 2 laptop with 6gb hd and 128mb of ram as my main laptop. runs fairly good, dont have to realy wait for it, then again its just used for web/music. people dont realy think about ram upgrades, they either buy a new pc or when they think of memory, they think of hard drives

Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

Some people actually assume the older versions of Windows are "slower", and 386er is right that some don't know the difference between RAM and a hard drive. The last time I upgraded the RAM in anything was with a VIC-20; I can usually do without the newer versions of Windows. The PC I'm using at the moment only has 64MB RAM, but it runs Windows 95 great.

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

wdegroot wrote:

I cannot believe someone sat there and actually used this pc.

Now if we do it as a HOBBY or experiment THAT I can see. But are businesses or individuals so stupid that they spend half their pc-time waiting for something to happen?

Your thoughts, is it ignorance, cheapness or something else?

Yes, the place I worked at did, but honestly the software we ran under a PIII 733 w/ xp & 128mb ran fine once loaded, our troubles were waiting glacial amounts of time to do anything because the network sucked. Many times the network caused simple things like typing a line of text to take 20 seconds, off line they ran fan but most of them were setup to dissallow that.