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Offline ThaDood

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The people stuck using ancient Windows computers? BBC rip.
« on: May 20, 2025, 1521 UTC »
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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is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he
meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is
exactly the same, except that there is no cat.”
-Attributed to Albert Einstein, but I ripped it from the latest Splatter .PDF March 2025 issue.

Offline Shortwave_Listener

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Re: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers? BBC rip.
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2025, 1846 UTC »
I’ve got one of those old Sansa 8GB MP3 players, mine works fine with Windows 11.
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Offline uhf35

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Re: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers? BBC rip.
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2025, 1507 UTC »
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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