It just goes to show how computer based technology surges ahead of everything else. If today I were to be offered a 1996 computer system, probably a 486 processor, 8Mb Ram and five hundred odd MB HDD I would fall off my chair laughing. However ask me if I would like a 1996 Mercedes SL 500 I would tear your arm off to have one...Why, because basically the latest SL 500 is not as fast, good looking as the older model. Not so in the computer world. [/b][/quote]Originally posted by Jaime Andrés+Aug 17 2004, 06:17 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Jaime Andrés @ Aug 17 2004, 06:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--rhoadesb@Aug 17 2004, 10:22 PM
I doubt anyone but Mr. Gates and close associates have access to MS-DOS 1.0. I checked into this once out of curiousity. If memory serves 1.1 may be somewhere available.
I hope someone keeps these things. They are history, and may one day have antique value.
I just recently built a dedicated firewall and DMZ / web server on a 1995 machine. Works well. The firewall machine i built which does my NAT Routing was a 90mhz 8megs RAM, No Hard drive box. Also. it worked extremely well.
It all depends on what you wish to use the box for. Having a Quad Xeon Server with 16GB RAM is a waste of money for someone who wishes to just write an e-mail or surf the net. For the majority of people using computers these days. This will do them nothing but break the bank.
Todays machines really for the most part are in general, severely under-used. The power these machines have is wasted. Apps are not optimized, Windows is bloated, all hardware is controllerless and depends on drivers.
If the software would be better, we'd not need the horespower to bootstrap the machines that are being sold today.
Its too bad people view these 'millions of cycles per second' machines as useless. As they did spreadsheets and databases and word processing well when they came out in their days, What has changed? the words people process? no. The software has changed to being extremely bloated to the point of silliness.