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| Thread ID: 98385 | 2009-03-23 04:05:00 | I have an old 486 | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 758753 | 2009-03-25 10:16:00 | wow, I just realised that I did misread that reply (damn unlucky post). Anyway, still doubtful that it would run xubuntu. I don't even remember 486's being able to run wundows 3.11 very well. | didanick (13408) | ||
| 758754 | 2009-03-25 11:05:00 | a 486 DX 100 should have no problem with Win 3.1.1. :) They can do handstands and perform quite well with Peanut Linux, which I favoured back in the days. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 758755 | 2009-03-25 19:02:00 | Well my old 486 (broken) had many a problem with windows 3.11. The only thing that worked properly was dos. | didanick (13408) | ||
| 758756 | 2009-03-25 23:42:00 | 486's weren't designed to run windows 98, let alone xp. If your xp computer couldn't run xubuntu, this certainly won't. What a stupid reply. You've completely misconstrued my post. Never mind your spelling, it's your reading and comprehension that need improvement. |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 758757 | 2009-03-26 01:27:00 | What a stupid reply. You've completely misconstrued my post. Never mind your spelling, it's your reading and comprehension that need improvement. I have, and if you had bothered to read my next posts, you would know that I re answered your question. |
didanick (13408) | ||
| 758758 | 2009-03-28 21:29:00 | I have, and if you had bothered to read my next posts, you would know that I re answered your question. Oh dear I seem to have started something here. Normally I love it when we get off subject but just to restate things, I was wondering if my old 486 was worth anything and YES it does run Win98 without any problems - despite the instructions etc telling me that it was not up to the job. Never tried XT on it!! Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 758759 | 2009-03-28 21:43:00 | Didanick has already offered to buy it. I have no idea how much for. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 758760 | 2009-03-29 01:58:00 | Didanick has already offered to buy it. I have no idea how much for. And that is the problem. Didanick does not know what it is worth and neither do I. Obviously not so darn much. I think as it is still in use I will leave it in the too hard basket for the moment. Might consider selling it when it is classed as a genuine antique. Not far off now. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 758761 | 2009-03-29 02:33:00 | As a quite irrelevant aside, Windows 3.1 would run on a 286. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 758762 | 2009-03-29 04:17:00 | And that is the problem. Didanick does not know what it is worth and neither do I. Obviously not so darn much. I think as it is still in use I will leave it in the too hard basket for the moment. Might consider selling it when it is classed as a genuine antique. Not far off now. Tom These things usually go for $20 on trademe. I'm willing to offer more if all is in order. Do you know if it is using a VGA screen? If not, do you have DOS drivers for the graphics card? Or any driver disks for that matter? |
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