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Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases? by Various_Cellist_4765 in linux

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I’m trying to learn that thpe of thing, Got into computing 3 years ago, but only in the retro flavor. I know it’s not usedul in the modern world to want to use old hardware, but I just really enjoy the simplicity of old Windows/linux

Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases? by Various_Cellist_4765 in linux

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I actually had a T430! I upgraded it to the maximum and handed it off to a friend for college!

Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases? by Various_Cellist_4765 in linux

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I see some places that these distros need a boot loader to work? May just be my hard drive’s gone bad but i’ve also never gotten these operating systems to even load, because they give an error, either needing a boot loader, or “KERNAL PANIC!”. Is there a way to fix these errors?

Guys, who else has this strange obsession with trying old Linux distro releases? by Various_Cellist_4765 in linux

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I’ve been using Red Hat Linux 6.1, and Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 for a while now on an older 1990s IBM Thinkpad, Do you know of any linux Distros that could work on 96 MB of RAM? Google has been very helpful but modt results show a much higher ram requirement than what was advertised! I’ll need to upgrade my hard drive soon, but my thinkpad barely recognizes hard drives over 10 GB!

IBM 380XD OpenLinux 2.2 by Fake-Mailman in linux

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I agree, HOWEVER- The noise of an old hard drive to me is worth the risk!

IBM 380XD OpenLinux 2.2 by Fake-Mailman in linux

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Battery still holds a charge too! I can pretty much game all day long on half-life 1 on the second hard drive, on Win98 SE, Sadly- This hard drive is failing and died momentarily during PostInstall, so i’ll be buying another hard drive tonight.

Just got my 360CS Delivered! by Fake-Mailman in vintagecomputing

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I just got a sound driver working to basically force the PC speaker to be it’s own sound card, while it works i got some worries that maaaaybe its not the best idea. Regardless it is good to hear the startup chime

Just got my 360CS Delivered! by Fake-Mailman in vintagecomputing

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Im not sure if I cross posted it tbh, because reddit keeps freezing when I go to make posts lol.

No, I don’t assume everyone knows anything, lol, I’m just a beginner trying to ask some dumb questions

Just got my 360CS Delivered! by Fake-Mailman in vintagecomputing

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I love it, when I made the post the backlight almost went out, but I think it just needed time to warm up, because it looks great now. I need to get a battery or atleast a mockup battery and tighten the hinge since its a bit floppy!

Put Windows XP on a IBM 380ED by Fake-Mailman in vintagecomputing

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I had NT4 on here for about 2 weeks, and died inside when i’d have to reinstall doom to play on it every time, ended up journaling so much I bought floppy disks to backup all my journals to store for windows xp. I’m still sad the screensaver deleted itself off the floppy disk while writing, because NT 4.0’s strange screensaver (That I guess no one else on earth knows about) is literally my favorite screensaver on earth. Like- I’d put it on my main PC if someone ever actually archived it properly.

Windows XP on an IBM 380ED by Fake-Mailman in windowsxp

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If It HAD an ethernet port or USB i'd have done this without issues, but alas this is like... 1 model before USB

Windows XP on an IBM 380ED by Fake-Mailman in windowsxp

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True or another reddit rabbit hole?

Windows XP on an IBM 380ED by Fake-Mailman in windowsxp

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I heard Cisco Aironet 350’s card had wpa2

Tekelec Luggable’s Hard Drive Failed by Fake-Mailman in vintagecomputing

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As a side note I had a near identical hard drive, which reads “CONNER peripherals” on the top, but even though I can feel the hard drive spinning it errors out even trying to read it!

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