Old, but not "Classic"

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 06:36:49 1998

Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Friday, 13 November 1998 11:21
> Subject: Re: Old, but not "Classic"
>
> >win95 is too much for anything less than 486dx2, 500~1GB and 16MB plus.
>
> Not really, it depends on what you are doing with it.
> I have some 486SLC and DX 33 machines with 10 mb and 270Mb HDDs in the
> cafe here, happily running Win95, Ishare client (for the net) Netbeui & IPX
> protocol stacks
> with Netware (have a 3.12 Server here) and Microsoft network clients, Plus
> an assortment
> of Netscape/Agent/Mirc/BP FTP etc etc etc. They work pretty well, my
> customers will soon
> complain if they don't.
> I
> >Win98 needs new machines.
>
> Can't agree with that at all. I have had several P60's (yes the original 5v
> Pentiums) with
> 16mb and 408mb hdds running 98, Ishare with the Active Desktop and full IE4
> suite running in the cafe here for up to 3 months. Never had an ounce of
> trouble with any of them. Again, it depends on what you are doing with it.
>
> >All 3.x, 95/98 must have cdrom drives,
>
> Highly desirable, though not essential if you have another machine who's cd
> it can share.
> Network cards are very cheap now, and a small lan is far cheaper to setup
> than retrofitting
> a CD rom.
> Footnote: The P60's I sold earlier had 32x cdroms and 16bit sound cards
> fitted when they
> were eventually sold to customers. Again, I've had none come back with
> problems.
>
> >too many hardware and software are on cds.
>
> Hardware on CD???? What sort of compression software does that!!! ;^)
> netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au

I have two AMD 80386DX-40 machines here at the house running 12mb of RAM and
850mb hard drives, with Win95 OSR2 on them and they run well enough to play
networked Doom II on, without any real noticeable lag (the 2mb video helps).
They also work great with a 28,800 modem for browsers until you hit the java
pages, then they act a little slow.

So what's the problem? I wouldn't recommend that a 386SX-16 be used the same way
but it would be a good workstation on a small NE2000 network using Windows for
WorryGroups 3.11.
Received on Thu Nov 12 1998 - 06:36:49 GMT