First post, by Ryccardo
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Hello, while browsing the "local" classifieds I found a Thinkpad 365XD for sale at a fair price (not "I'd spend more eating fast food twice" but reasonable for being in working condition with all original accessories), so I got excited about it 😀
But to be honest I don't really know what can be reasonably done with a Pentium 1 of unknown speed, who knows how much memory (could be anything between 8 and 40 MB officially), and probably the original 1 GB disk that I don't have a replacement for handy?
Not particularly interested in "the newest games" or other cutting edge stuff, but the slowest computer I've ordinarily used* is a Pentium 3 Celeron with 64 MB which fairly quickly became 128; I would also guess that the lack of MMX in ~1999 is the lack of SSE2 of the 2010s?
* I did have a trash-picked "Pentium-S" desktop with 8MB/2GB for a few months maaaany years ago but I only really used it for Windows 3.1 until it broke and don't remember much about it, then last year I repaired and documented a 286 but pretty much had no use for it...