The can of worms we opened when we learned of the server switched off after eighteen years and ten months' service is still wriggling, as a reader has contacted us to tell of nearly 30-year-old laptops still in service.
Reader "Holrum" says he has "a couple dozen Toshiba T1000 laptops from the mid [1980s] still fully functional (including floppy drives)".
The T1000 was introduced in 1987. [...] The machine was one of the very first computers to use a clamshell form factor. [...] It also offered a rather archaic LCD display, as illustrated.
[...]The machine ran MS-DOS 2.11 on a ROM [and] came with a colossal 512kB of RAM [...] and a single 3.5-inch floppy drive.
Holrum says the T1000s are taken offline every few years for just the few minutes required to replace the NiCad batteries and give them a clean before they are returned to duty as process monitoring terminals.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @09:43PM
Or perhaps they believe that the content of the post is more important than the name attached to it.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by frojack on Monday February 15 2016, @11:42PM
Or perhaps they believe that the content of the post is more important than the name attached to it.
Funny how that content tends to be insults and trolls most of the time, and also its equal parts funny and sad how they seem to think those insults and trolls are "important".
Lets face it: That dog won't hunt. If you have something important to say, you don't write it on a paper towel drenched in piss that you throw at some passer-by.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 15 2016, @11:48PM
Does the minority define the whole?