Re: Home businesses and older computers

Subject: Re: Home businesses and older computers
From: "CL T" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:27:05 -0700

If you're willing to install a Linux OS, you'd be surprised at the mileage
you can get out of an older machine (and I'm nowhere NEAR a Linux advocate).


About the only real concern I would have? Hard Drives. Depending on how much
use that older computer has had, and you're running a business on it, I
would want to either replace the HDs or make sure I have a great backup plan
in place. HD failure is a painful experience...

I have 1 old computer that I do a LOT of work on still. Sometimes it's
painful, but it works.

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:19 AM, John Posada <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I'd use a computer that is appropriate for what I need to do with it.
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Craig Cardimon <cardimon720 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > How many of you would run your own home-based business using an older
> computer?
> >
> > By older I'm talking about a computer that is maxed out with 512 MB RAM,
> 1.20 GHz, and is XP Pro 2002 SP3.
> >
> > Feel free to reply off-list unless you think it's topical.
> >
>
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Home businesses and older computers: From: Craig Cardimon
Re: Home businesses and older computers: From: John Posada

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