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The pace of Desktop development has been staggering. My 1987 8mhz. Memorex could just about run the typing tutorial ‘Fastype’ from 5.25 floppy. Around the same time I had a Digital 386, which loaded programs via ( quad speed ! ) CD-Rom drive so slowly that I used to make a sandwich whilst waiting for things to load - and they usually crashed then.
My big leap into the realm of ‘modern’ Computing was with the Compaq Presario 4550 ( Pentium 233 MMX! ). No longer did I have to return every game to the shelf due to incompatible ‘system requirements’! I got a bit screwed with the Presario though: no sooner had I bought it ( 1998 ) than the PII arrived, and lack of system / software compatibility became an issue again.
Thankfully things have cooled off a bit in this regard since the arrival of the Pentium 4. Since the arrival of the Pentium 4, I simply haven’t bothered playing ‘the game’ in any event ( buying something which is out of date too soon ). Instead I retreat to playing PII games and using PII applications. As long as you don’t get too adventurous with online ambition, and aren’t a graphics junkie, these older machines are just fine: they do everything most people could want.
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