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    From Oli@21:3/102 to Guido on Tue Jan 4 12:09:21 2022
    Guido wrote (2022-01-03):

    I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case is SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core.
    There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost
    go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser.

    What browser are you using? I have a similar old Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60GHz and Firefox opens fast enough on Linux. I guess the HD is the thing that makes it slow.

    1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run
    across a system like this?

    Should be fast enough for a BBS. But hows the power consumption when idle? Isn't it a waste of energy?

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    * Origin: Birds aren’t real (21:3/102)
  • From guido@21:3/105.3 to Jeff on Wed Jan 5 10:24:52 2022
    I'm sending this reply from an Atari 130XE with FujiNet. Using IceTXE as
    a terminal program, I can kinda/sorta get 80 columns, although each character is only 4 pixels wide. At 9600 baud, the performance is not
    bad. The boot time was reasonable, although I can only run this one program without rebooting and swapping out floppy disk images.

    Jeff.
    Ok...You win.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: The Lab BBS (21:3/105.3)
  • From guido@21:3/105.3 to Oli on Wed Jan 5 10:35:54 2022
    What browser are you using? I have a similar old Pentium Dual Core E2140 1.60GHz and Firefox opens fast enough on Linux. I guess the HD is the thing that makes it slow.

    I tried Firefox and Chrome. Both were slow to open. I just loaded up
    MintLinux and a 1tb ssd. Still slow although boot time decreased.
    Should be fast enough for a BBS. But hows the power consumption when
    idle? Isn't it a waste of energy?

    Probably. I have 7 computers running at the moment so I never really gave
    power consumption much thought. Utlities are a business expense so tax deductible. I'll network that guy to the rest of the boxes and use it for
    file storage.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: The Lab BBS (21:3/105.3)