The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

8 March 2007

4 on the floor

Found at Slashdot, a couple of years ago fercryingoutloud:

Just for giggles is anybody reading this currently using NT4?

Um, not anymore. (Giggle.)

Addendum: The city utility bill contains a blurb about a Special Collection of Household Hazardous Waste, to be held Saturday morning, 28 April, at State Fair Park. Near as I can tell, an old NT 4.0 box, though it's not in the Household, certainly qualifies as both Waste and Hazardous.

Posted at 3:26 PM to PEBKAC


I'm glad you didn't ask if anyone had any boxes running Windows NT; I have an old ALR Revolution Q-SMP somewhere upon which I installed NT Workstation.

A friend fished it out of the dumpster ca 2003; in 1995, it was a $40,000 server.

Posted by: Brian J. at 7:40 AM on 9 March 2007

I quit reading Slashdot. I always thought the design was bad and they weren't particularly friendly.

Posted by: EulalieShinn at 2:53 PM on 11 March 2007

I've still got an NT 4.0 alpha workstation running at my house; it's the domain controller. I bought it back in 1997 or so, back when DEC/Compaq was exiting the Alpha workstation business. 533 MHz of tasty floating-point goodness; it ran SETI@Home about twice as fast as an 800MHz Pentium 3. I'm probably going to replace it with a Windows Home Server machine sometime this year; too noisy, and the hard disk is starting to fail.

Posted by: Eric at 4:52 PM on 13 March 2007