Old Hardware 2006 December 26
The Musings of an Anonymous Geek blog has an interesting post about using old hardware. I’m a big fan of old hardware, having a huge collection of Sun Sparc Stations that I can turn on in case I run out of heating oil. The Anonymous Geek has a good point about machines being thrown out well before their useful life is up. The machine I use everyday at home is only a old 1 Ghz machine and it browses the Web and reads e-mail just fine. Occasionally I think about getting a new 64 bit machine but I really can’t figure out why I need to since this one works just fine for what I do with it. I guess the thing is I’m not really into gaming and that seems to be the one thing more then anything else that pushes people to new machines. Still, I’m thinking about getting another machine just so I can have a spare one to install Evergreen and/or Koha on for some experimentation.