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Who still owns a P2 system?

Nocturnal

Nocturnal

Lifer
I have a P2 system lying around. I bought it for like $30.00 and I thought I would be able to bear the slowness of the computer and use it for word processing and what not. However, I can't bear the slowness. It's unbearable to say the least.

What do you use your old school systems for?
 
there's a lot of bears in this post.


you can use it for word processing, just don't put winows xp on their. get windows 98/office 98 or even linux
 
i have a celery 533 system that i use for a file server...its sort of a p2...with less cache

EDIT: or maybe its a 633...dont really remember
 
I use a P1 as a router, and a K6 as an MP3 player. I have a K6-2 running Knoppix and a 350P2 running Win98 for spares. I gave my Athlon and Athlon XP setups to close family members as upgrades.
 
Originally posted by: fs5
there's a lot of bears in this post.


you can use it for word processing, just don't put winows xp on their. get windows 98/office 98 or even linux
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LOL....lions tigers and BEARS...oh my?
 
My oldest comp that's still alive is a 600mhz Celeron, I'm only 15 so I don't go back that far. I think I did own an older one before but I'm pretty sure something died when it popped and smoke started coming out when I was like 9. A friend of mine and I took it apart and it was all so confusing so we threw it out.
 
My work PC is a P2 400mhz that I had to upgrade myself from 128mb to 384mb of Ram. Sucks major.
 
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I have a P2 system lying around. I bought it for like $30.00 and I thought I would be able to bear the slowness of the computer and use it for word processing and what not. However, I can't bear the slowness. It's unbearable to say the least.

What do you use your old school systems for?
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How old are you? Why do you say "I thought I would be able to bear the slowness"? Tell us the specs of the machine before you start to b!tch. There are some situations where you could have a bad PII motherboard and it will run very slowly. I've had cases where some dell computers were lightning fast and some that took about 1 hour to boot. My mother's computer is like this where it gets abysmal memory scores=slowville. Despite putting a 1.4GHZ processor in her system, it's still not as fast as it should be. I also ran a dell D333 system which was painfully slow and I think got a memory score of 66MB/s....

Most PIIs should be able to run XP fairly quickly even with an old HDD, with a newer HDD and fast ram, it should be able to start windows XP with in 2 minutes..
 
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I have a P2 system lying around. I bought it for like $30.00 and I thought I would be able to bear the slowness of the computer and use it for word processing and what not. However, I can't bear the slowness. It's unbearable to say the least.

What do you use your old school systems for?
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How old are you? Why do you say "I thought I would be able to bear the slowness"? Tell us the specs of the machine before you start to b!tch. There are some situations where you could have a bad PII motherboard and it will run very slowly. I've had cases where some dell computers were lightning fast and some that took about 1 hour to boot. My mother's computer is like this where it gets abysmal memory scores=slowville. Despite putting a 1.4GHZ processor in her system, it's still not as fast as it should be. I also ran a dell D333 system which was painfully slow and I think got a memory score of 66MB/s....

Most PIIs should be able to run XP fairly quickly even with an old HDD, with a newer HDD and fast ram, it should be able to start windows XP with in 2 minutes..
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Holy crap talk about harsh.
 
What really sucks ass on them old systems is them old slow 5400RPM loud cluncky harddrives, and normally 128MB or below RAM, PC100 or PC133 of course.
 
I have a P III 866 that I use for similar tasks. It has 768mb of memory (3x256) though, and to be quite honest - is no slouch. It has my old Geforce3 4400 in it as well, and I can use it to play old games that aren't compatible with XP. I have it set up triple boot, Linux, XP, and 98
 
Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
I have a P2 system lying around. I bought it for like $30.00 and I thought I would be able to bear the slowness of the computer and use it for word processing and what not. However, I can't bear the slowness. It's unbearable to say the least.

What do you use your old school systems for?
Click to expand...

How old are you? Why do you say "I thought I would be able to bear the slowness"? Tell us the specs of the machine before you start to b!tch. There are some situations where you could have a bad PII motherboard and it will run very slowly. I've had cases where some dell computers were lightning fast and some that took about 1 hour to boot. My mother's computer is like this where it gets abysmal memory scores=slowville. Despite putting a 1.4GHZ processor in her system, it's still not as fast as it should be. I also ran a dell D333 system which was painfully slow and I think got a memory score of 66MB/s....

Most PIIs should be able to run XP fairly quickly even with an old HDD, with a newer HDD and fast ram, it should be able to start windows XP with in 2 minutes..
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Starting Windows XP is not a problem. Opening programs, trying to browse the internet is where it crawls to a halt.
 
I had an old P2-350 system as a spare system in my office that I run some tracking/reporting applications on. I also slapped a TV tuner card in it and used it to have the TV running in the background. 😀

I recently raided a supply closet where we keep a lot of our old servers and stole an old P3-600 Slot 1 to see if it would work with this mobo. Popped it in and it fired up. Still not blazing fast but quite a step up from a P2-350. Good thing it worked too because the thing is lodged in there so tightly now that I couldn't get it out.
 
Originally posted by: chuckywang
This is pretty useful:
http://www.smoothwall.org/
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I used an old PII system and smoothwall a few years ago when setting up internet access for the fraternity house I was living in at the time. Worked great. Turned on squid and all was good.

For fun I would sometimes block certian sites that I knew some people frequented. It was always good for a laugh when someone came up to me and said:

"Hey my internet doesn't work"
"Oh really?" <go to their computer, pull up espn, works fine,>
"what were you trying to go to?" Guy looks at the floor......
"www.adultbuffet.com.............🙂"
 
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