Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for December 27, 2021

While that may have been the case back in the mid-80s (when you WOULD toss an old computer in the trash), nowadays, those old computers have new jobs to do…

When I was a network admin, we used to re-purpose old workstations, such as a Dell Precision, to run small databases or as domain controllers. An array of old dual Xeon workstations is a pretty powerful tool for some work. :-)

My old Mac Mini from 2012 is going to become a crypto-mining rig… it probably won’t net much, but it will have some use other than a stylish aluminum paper weight. ;-)

It’s not dead yet and refuses to die. Can’t win for losing.

Heck, now the obsolescence is built right in and timed to coincide with the next “upgrade”.

My Apple Macintosh from the 1980s lives on in honorable retirement. Perhaps I should say “lives” — I haven’t turned it on in decades.

I’m proud to say that I still have, plugged in & booting, an original Gateway Pentium 75 running Win98 SE. That’s the last OS that could boot to pure DOS and it still runs a rather complex legacy database program just fine. The program isn’t worth the complete rewrite to update it and the computer hasn’t been plugged into the internet in decades.

“No, immediately let me out!”

Dunno, but it sounds to me as though the Banana Jr. 6000 isn’t dead, and isn’t going without a struggle!

Are you sure you are doing the Right Thing, Oliver?