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. I loaded Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4.
I am thinking about putting a 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?


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On 03 Jan 2022, Guido said the following...

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. I loaded
Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting
a 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?

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.

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Hello Guido!

** On Monday 03.01.22 - 10:24, Guido wrote to All:

..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. I loaded Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It
had Windows 7 on it before the re-format. Still almost as
slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting a 1 tb ssd in
it and use it as a bbs machine.

..Anyone out here ever run across a system like this?

^^^^^^^^^^

Maybe it's time to "run across" it with a bulldozer? LOL


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On 03 Jan 2022, Guido said the following...

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. I loaded

hahahaha too funny... and, I'm sure not far from the truth!

re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting

hahaha ... almost... and you probably spent about a grand on it... and the pi? $35... you gotta love 'em

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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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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.

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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.

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