Somebody shoot me.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

We just had somebody check in an ancient Sony VAIO running WinME with 128MB of memory. Eargh.

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[samwize.livejournal.com]

Oh sweet jesus! I think I'm gonna cry. I prescribe FIRE and lots of it!

[gholam.livejournal.com]

Meh. 128MB is plenty for 98/ME. Now, XP Pro on 32MB...

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

I sense a round of "Can You TopBottom That?"

I'll start with our still-in-service circa-1992 486DX-33 running DOS 6.22.

[canray.livejournal.com]

Installing a USB Driver for a Cable Modem onto a Dell "Somethingorother" Laptop running WinME with 128MB of memory.

[kayfox.livejournal.com]

Motorola radio users will be sympathetic, they have to deal with old DOS laptops (http://flickr.com/photos/kayfox/476633796/) quite a bit.*


*Most software for older-ish radios is DOS based, and strictly that, it cant be run on anything faster than a DX2-66.

[hopefulnebula]

You had me at VAIO. :p

[soruk.livejournal.com]

I have a rather nice Vaio, thankyouverymuch. Runs Linux like a dream :)

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

After seeing the insides of so many VAIOs, I'm going to say that "rather nice VAIO" is an outright impossibility. I've yet to see one I'd consider well built. =)

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Vaios prove that Beauty IS only skin deep....

[soruk.livejournal.com]

That may be so, but if it could withstand 5 years of Soruk-style treatment it can't be too bad. ;)

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

has a user at my last job come in with a Pentium III 600Mhz with 256MB of ram wondering why when he installed Vista it made the system run so slow.

Please note the past tense on installed.

[evilbill1782.livejournal.com]

He actually managed to install Vista on it???
I'd be a bit dubious about putting *XP* on a machine with only 256 megs. LOL

[rev-thumper.livejournal.com]

I was cleaning up a shelf awhile back and found an i series ThinkPad with a Celeron processor, WindowsME and 128MB as well. I gave it to the front line techs to play with and they were really having a lot of fun with it.

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

1993 I was an intern at a place that serviced copiers.
We went way out in the woods south south south of stockholm to a place.

The guy there was from an association of agriculture something or another.

Guy was still writing his newsletters/doing his billing and so on on an 8088 with monochrome monitor (green/black for teh win!) and dual 5.25 drives to boot it and do his thing.

His newsletter was composed on the 8088, printed on dotmatrix printer , then he paste on photos and ran it through "our" copier.

Still kindoff impressed the machine was still running after all this time.