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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: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday February 16 2016, @07:20AM
I don't think "need to remain anonymous" enters into the discussion.
They can create a persona used for nothing but SN if they want.
The idea isn't to dox them, its to make them wear the feces they throw as they drive past.
At least gewg_ and OriginalOwner sign their posts, but that only solves a portion of the reputation management issue.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.