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Celebrating the 20th birthday of this underpowered, heavy and bulky, but long lasting laptop!

I'll always remember when it was running Windows, a long long time ago, and I got that infamous blue screen of death. And I followed the procedures to the letter of trying to reset and reinstall the Windows operating system of the day. I don't know how I managed to be so patient, but I let it run through its paces for probably 36 hours. And suddenly, it was back.

Over the years, while it could still run Windows, it got significantly slower. This, despite a couple of key hardware upgrades this old beast would tolerate. So with its ancient processor and puny amount of RAM, I made the decision to have Linux installed. All things considered, it runs quite well under Linux, and I'm a happy camper to have kept it.