Brian Masinick
@Seaken64: Yeah, when I moved from Michigan to South Carolina, we were moving from a two bedroom condominium with an outdoor connected garage to a one bedroom apartment with a gated storage area down the hall and a carport downstairs. My wife had a walk-in closet in the previous home; in our current place we have a closet on each side of the hallway in between the bedroom and the bathroom closets put together are about the size of her previous closet.
I kept my computers and all of my things in the second bedroom, so we don’t have that separate space.
I did pick up a pullout desk with shelves some time after we arrived here. That gave me places to store tech documents and computers, and the option to close it up when we have visitors, so that helped. It enabled me to get a few old computers from my brother in law. Even the OLD computers are newer than the Gateway and Lenovo systems that I used to have, and much newer than the Dell Dimension 4100 I had at the turn of the century.
I did get a LOT of good testing out of the systems from that era, no doubt about it. There are still a lot of systems capable of supporting my current generation of 64-bit systems – 3-10 years old – still pretty significant range.
I guess that you are one of our top champions to retain the hardware and expertise with the 32-bit systems (the ones that I used for about 15 years.
I throw this into the mix – maybe it’s out here somewhere in an old post in the archives: I actually had an early 64-bit UNIX workstation between 1995-1998 that ran Digital UNIX. Actually, at times I had at least two of them, plus a PC to run Windows NT; I tested current and new daily, weekly, and release builds of Digital UNIX, interoperability with Windows NT, and sometimes feature interoperability with competing UNIX servers and workstations. So I had 64-bits at work in the mid to late nineties, and a 32-bit Windows 95/98 and Linux desktops.
In the later 1990s I had a few other 32-bit laptops until I got the 2001 Dell Dimension 4100; I used that as a test 32-bit desktop workstation until I got the 2007-2008 Gateway and Lenovo laptops.
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