Weekend Open Forum: What legacy hardware do you still use?

[Raoul Duke]

All my stuff is wired, no wireless, does that make me qualify as legacy today? Also still have and use optical drive in my pc.

 

[captaincranky]

Well, I have, and use daily, an eMachines T-5026 which I bought myself for Valentine's Day 2005! Would that count as legacy? You betcha!

It's based on an Intel 915GAG Matx board, and an Intel P-4 519 (3.06 Ghz). The OS is Win XP SP-2. (I know what you're thinking, "why doesn't that fool at least update it to SP-3"). Well, because the restore discs no longer work with the later SP. .

All my stuff is wired, no wireless, does that make me qualify as legacy today? Also still have and use optical drive in my pc.

Yes, you're practically, (along with me), living in the Kingdom of Luddites. (Although in my case, that would be "The Hood of Luddites, Yo")!

@Raoul Duke Anyway, I wouldn't own a PC without an optical drive, no way, no how! Here's why; all the techie hipsters running their mouths about, "who would possibly want or need one of those useless optical drives in their PC", found out the hard way, you couldn't install Windows 7 in a Skylake System without one. (At least no without a ton off aggravation, and practically endless whimpering online, begging for help from board makers). Yet with only 3 criteria, it's no different from any other Windows installation. All you need is a DVD drive, a PS-2 mouse & keyboard, and a UFEI BIOS, and Win 7 goes right in, no questions asked.

I was going to install my copy of Windows 7 Pro with a roller ball PS-2 mouse (*) into my X-170 board, but I relented, since I thought that would be "just showing off"...

(*) That would be the mouse that came with the eMachines.

OK kidz, watch this and weep: (00:00 to 00:45 is all that really matters).

 

[Scodd]

Huh huh, they said floppy.