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New Old Video Idea
🕑 Added 2020-06-30 00:43:08 +0000 UTCA couple of years ago I had an idea for a "mini-series" to acquire old computers to see if Linux could "revive" them.
The idea came from an old industrial computer my Dad had collecting dust in his garage.
This thing:
It's a Windows NT era machine build for PLC programming and related stuff. Amazing it, it has a pair of USB slots and the chipset is all Intel so.. It should actually work with a distro like Debian, right?
The thing is, I don't know how to even make a video like this. For starters, it doesn't have video-out so I would have to record the monitor. Second, I don't really want to appear in a video but I think the hardware is the most interesting thing about it so I'd want to show it.
Anyway, I'd like to sample a video like this before the end of the year. And if people really dig it, maybe I'll see if it's feasible to have a mini-series alongside Distro Delves.
Picture this: Scavaging for old computer equipment at local Thrift Stores or Garage Sales and seeing if I can renew them with Linux. I think it sounds pretty cool! 😉
Comments
Egee
Planning it feels like that KDE vs Xfce video where I didn't know what the response would be. Maybe people will really dig it and we can dial in the episode format together.. That would be awesome!
Marquis Davis
If you can make it work I would be all for it.
Daniel Criggie
Assuming there's at least some kind of Pentium 4 or better in that old relic it could run Debian (Anything older than a 586 (Pentium 1,2 and maybe 3) probably won't). You can show the hardware without showing yourself. I like the idea of it. Whether it renews them to a point of being functional remains to be seen but interested to find out
