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Technical Topics => Software => Topic started by: ThaDood on May 20, 2025, 1521 UTC
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us Yeah... I know... Not really radio related, or is it? I still have many Icom commercial HT's, and mobile rigs, that still need WIN XP to update FREQ's and modify features. Heck, I still have Motorola MAXTRAC's, and a Radius, that require DOS-based programming. My CHIRP works with WIN 8. And, Zara Radio automation runs on WIN XP. VISTA, runs a 20-year-old 8GB Sansa MP3 unit, that I've used to run on-air, and it won't take MAC and Ubuntu. So, I'm still using older Windows for various radio-related gear. And, I suspect that I'm not the only one.
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I’ve got one of those old Sansa 8GB MP3 players, mine works fine with Windows 11.
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2 x units with AMD 62/32 bits, WINs 7 Ultimate, 2/8 GB RAM. Writing local news site and working like bookseller management.
1 Debian XFCE server; also like destopk «emergency» computer.
Lots of free Open and old abandonware, secure, simple software, that not appears losing funcions over Time, and Im not have intentions of change.
XP Pro SPII in PIII 866 MHz with 384 (3x128) SDRAM, over Gigabyte GA-TUC Socket 370, upgraded HD to 500 GB PATA with big caché (2010), broadcasting my automated local weekend FM station (LPFM with 10 W), time to time in SW (9825 KHz, 32 W), since 2001!
"She" spended a lot of power sources, 2 monitors and obsolete expansion cards (ISA, PCI, AGP and others.)
In fact, actual audio provider are still ISA Sound Blaster AWE 64.
There are lots of posibilities that last one survive me, in working ;D ::) :-X :-\ :'(
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Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 this year and somehow all their threats to Windows 10 users (and previous experience with Windows "upgrades") do not move me to do anything about it.