Had a weird thing happen just now. I looked over, my whole workstation had no power. Initially thought the power strip died. Switched a plug, nothing. The whole wall/outlet is out. Go outside, flip the switch. Come back in, things are back on. Power is back to the wall.
But I believe the Windows 7 machine my father in law gave to me several years back is dead. Won't turn on, always has before easily. It was lagging a lot, I used it daily for many years. Suuucks.
Looks like it's time to break that Windows 2000 machine out of the closet and put Linux on it 😂
Upon further inspection, since I inherited this thing from my father in law and it had been their family machine I think, I never looked at it much. I just realized it's older than I thought.
It's a Dell Optiplex GX620 and has this XP sticker on top. They must've upgraded the os to 7. So it's about 20 years old. It counts for #OldComputers because I say it does. 😂
Thanks to @bendaubney who hooked me up with this review link for the GX620 back from 2005! It was a beast then, and she was nearly old enough to vote before she just died this year. What a life she's had. 😂
Set up the other PC I had in the closet. Another old Dell (I thought it had Windows 2000, it's XP). I last actively used it around 2012-2013. Plugged it up, works, clearing off garbage software (Chrome!) I discovered that in true music freak form, I forgot I have like ~20GB of great music mp3s on here. Add the more recent stuff from my phone, I'll be almost back up to speed. Today's playlist is wild. I still listen to like 80-90% of it. Check the old apps in the 2nd pic before I deleted Tweetdeck, etc! 🤣 The BlackBerry one stays forever. 😍