Heh

I brought home an old AMD 400 with Windows 98 I used to use at the office.  The kids are playing with it now, experimenting with word processing and seeing how many times they can accidentally log off or reboot.  I need to get some age appropriate games or whatnot onto it, but they’re as likely to end up using it as I am.  Maybe I’ll backup some files to it, as it has 6 GB free.  The big thing is it has a mouse, so ohmygod there is a mouse Valerie can torture play with that won’t get her in trouble.

I poked around before I turned it over to them.  One of the things I found on it was a document giving reasons for upgrading at the law firm formerly known as the Big Client.  I had to laugh at how similar it was to the reasons for finally upgrading everything finally this year.  Reduced maintenance costs and greater ease of swapping more uniform and current machines around as needed, for instance.

The document was from 2000.

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