They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy.
You can’t really see it in the picture but the laptop is pretty thick and heavy.
Why not just use a USB-TTY adaptor?
Actually had to use this old friend at work the other day
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phx@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I love xp. I wish that windows just kept the same look and overall style but with security updates.
MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 9 months ago
For some reason otherwise obsolete setups that live on for a specific purpose please me. But also you can get a USB to serial device on the cheap.
WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just turning it on in the modern age leaves it more infected than the town friendly when the aircraft carrier leaves port.
Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Well, you just have to not use the internet. Just like in the olden times…
I also have an old XP laptop stored away. Its only purpose: Talk to my old photo negative scanner whose software won’t run on more recent OS’s. Only communication with the outside world is by USB memory stick.
TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Oh, a D6x0. 620 was my first ever company laptop! I loved it. Easily swappable cd-rom, you could change it to an additional 4cell battery. Combined with a 9 cell one it lasted basically the whole work day.
Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I still have my old Lenovo X61T which is nearly as old. With maxed out RAM (4GB) and an SSD it is actually still quite usable (running Linux). I love its great keyboard, that’s the reason I kept it. At some time my kids discovered that it is still able to run Minetest at reduced settings and so it now is part of the occasional LAN-Party when friends are over. Opens my heart to see the old buddy right in the middle of action being used by a bunch of kids that are only slightly over half its age!