[ Thanks to Scott
Wagner for this link. ]
“I recently purchased a used computer over the Internet to
replace a secondary computer, whose life had come to an end, that
my kids used for certain educational programs and games that run
well on Windows 98 but not on Windows XP. They also like to play
some of the games on Linux so I wanted a machine that could be used
for games, web surfing, email, word processing and some of my
development work as well. The ‘new’ used computer is an HP Vectra
computer with a 500 MHZ Pentium III processor, 256 meg of RAM, an 8
gig hard-drive, a CDROM drive, and on-board 8 meg video and sound
cards. Not exactly your latest scream-in dream-in computer, but it
would do for our needs, and it was cheap. I added a 30 gig
hard-disk I had laying around as the primary drive and moved the 8
gig drive over as the secondary drive…”