PM Railfan PS: The last time I bought a puter was last year at Goodwill no doubt! $12.12 "as is" for a laptop - no batt and no brick. I had those though. Its my throw-away now. Sometimes i use it here, doing the same things yall do with your fancy ones. So if it goes down - im only out $15. Hint: PC junkyards are just like car junkyards. They are out there, ya just gotta get a lil hitch in yer giddy up and go get one.
PS: The last time I bought a puter was last year at Goodwill no doubt! $12.12 "as is" for a laptop - no batt and no brick. I had those though. Its my throw-away now. Sometimes i use it here, doing the same things yall do with your fancy ones.
So if it goes down - im only out $15.
Hint: PC junkyards are just like car junkyards. They are out there, ya just gotta get a lil hitch in yer giddy up and go get one.
Agreed. I picked up a mini PC on ebay for $70 last week. It's a quite nice little machine with an Intel i5-6500T, 16 gig of RAM, and 256 gb SSD. The Windows license is baked into it, so I just popped in a flash drive with a windows 10 install on it and I was up and running with JMRI & PR3 (needed a firmware update) in a few hours.
I'm retired. I still run XP. It does what I want, and doesn't complain.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
AlienKing) Oh wow, nice deal! Thats a nice machine. Should have no problems. See? Good deals can be found cheap! And you got a dog gone good one. Congrats!
Mr Beasley) I still know a few folks who run XP. My brother being one of them. Not a thang wrong with that (until you have to reload it).
Most people have software that progressed with the Op Sys., and that software wasnt as good as the old stuff - go figure! So they stayed with older systems. That and XP was a real stable system.
I myself run XPMode. For older programs, data, and actually to help with customers who.... still use XP. Probably my second favorite op. sys., Win7 being the numero uno.
I dont see any need to get rid of it. It still has value as an op sys.. Thus why its called XP...... eXtra Potential!
Clear Ahead!
PMR
PS: XPMode is like a VM of XP, but different.