Question What "vintage" computers are you still using today?

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SteinwayTransitCorp

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Just pulled out an old 486X running 3.1.1 all on floppy disc, just think an entire OS on 6 floppy discs. It works fine, also has a 300mb hard drive. We are rocking!
 
brookie229

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I've got 4 Dell laptops - all of which still work quite well. One (my XPS 13) is in use every day, running Win11. I also have 3 other at one time top-of-the-line Latitudes: an E6240, a D630 and a D610. Those are all ancient. The E6420 is still very much in use running Windows 11, 10, 7, Linux Mint and also android PrimeOS (new version with android 11). I loved those old laptops as the hard drives could be swapped out in minutes and you could also place a hard drive in a hot-swappable DVD drive bay. No such thing now, unfortunately. I'm using Mint mostly on that one but also have a developers version of Windows 11 (machine is 12 years old) which gets ALL security updates still. The E6240 has been updated with 8Gb ram and a solid state 500 G hard drive removable. Mint is blazing fast.
 
SteinwayTransitCorp

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brookie229 said:
I've got 4 Dell laptops - all of which still work quite well. One (my XPS 13) is in use every day, running Win11. I also have 3 other at one time top-of-the-line Latitudes: an E6240, a D630 and a D610. Those are all ancient. The E6420 is still very much in use running Windows 11, 10, 7, Linux Mint and also android PrimeOS (new version with android 11). I loved those old laptops as the hard drives could be swapped out in minutes and you could also place a hard drive in a hot-swappable DVD drive bay. No such thing now, unfortunately. I'm using Mint mostly on that one but also have a developers version of Windows 11 (machine is 12 years old) which gets ALL security updates still. The E6240 has been updated with 8Gb ram and a solid state 500 G hard drive removable. Mint is blazing fast.
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Let the old hardware rock, if it is not broke don’t fix it
 
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