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Old May 4, 2013 | 10:58 am
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bobert24
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This reminds me of a computer I was asked to work on a couple years ago. It was October 2010, and they showed me to a computer running Windows 95. 80486 processor, 16 MB of RAM, and a 512 MB hard drive. The thing ran like it was straight out of the box. Apparently they only used it for bookkeeping, and then only once a month or so.

They didn't really have any problems with it, just wanted me to check on it while I was there looking at another computer. They had told me they had this computer, and that it was older ("probably 6 or 7 years old"). I guess time flies.

I made some backups for them on floppies (only option available), and left them with the thing still running. As far as I know, they're still using it.

I had to take some screenshots, because it was just unbelievable. Here they are (not resized - they were, of course, running at 640x480). I felt that the only appropriate way to remove their information was in paint, badly.

http://imgur.com/a/ccBbN
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