>0 ecjonas @ 2026/03/27 18:44
What's the worst computer (in specs) you have?
>1 cartwright @ 2026/03/27 23:00
Compaq laptop, with 64MB RAM, and Pentium 2 CPU
>2 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 01:07
>>OP oof XD what OS?
>3 danielaw @ 2026/03/28 12:02
>>OP A really shitty Chromebook.
>4 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 12:16
>>3 That's insulting me - I'm accessing this from a Chromebook XD It's a Plus though, they're pretty good little gaming machines.
>5 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 12:17
>>4 also i didn't know chromebooks had a pentium 2 option XD
>6 danielaw @ 2026/03/28 16:55
>>4 I promise you I am not insulting your Chromebook, I bought the cheapest one I could find and eventually paid the price.
>7 ecjonas @ 2026/03/28 21:34
>>6 XDDDDDDDDD
>8 cartwright @ 2026/03/31 13:07
>>2 Dual booting Windows 2000 & and an old version of Solaris
>9 ecjonas @ 2026/03/31 15:06
>>8 The Chromebook? How? I have a manual for Solaris 7-8.
>10 anthk @ 2026/04/03 13:51
>>OP Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, 9front, it flies. Gopher and IRC as my main comms, Email and Usenet as a async coms. I use it for games, Go/AWk/C programming, music, jabber (either native or thru servers from https://bitlbee.org). it's my main machine. I connect to the tildeverse with vt(1) and ssh(1). It shines with hoc/pc and gview to do plots. Far easier to manage than Unix. No PM's, a simple script rebuilds and upgrades the whole system than running apt-get upgrade under Trisquel in my Intel NUC. The few extra programs are upgraded with a script using git, it's just a matter of 5 minutes. No Python, No Perl, no KSH. Rc it's a godsend, really easy, Bash in comparison it's too complex. I have vim for the Unix withdrawal syndrome, but I prefer Acme to edit code and run Eforth/Golang under a subterminal. I can watch videos too, and read PD comic books (cbz) and PDF's from Gutenberg. Altough the shittiest computer would be a subleq vm (muxleq actually, mux'ed subleq) with Eforth. Almost like 8080/Z80 CPU speeds, faster under muxleq. Enough to play Sokoban and do EForth for prototypes, it's damn small and liberating. No AI, OFC. Also, by supporting Golang I can run rclone to restore/backup files from Nextcloud and 'aio' to compress/decompress lzma/xz files, where are no decompressors yet. Very handy. I use Hell to read Mastodon posts, too. Now, I even have native tools to dump old doc/xls files from Microsoft. First they are mounted as if the were a filesystem (the MS OLE spec it's kinda a FAT file) and then the contect it's extracted either text (DOC) or tabular data (XLS). Really handy too to interop with people. Yes, It's a hobbyist OS, but I can be sure that no upgrade will mess with my settings.
>11 cartwright @ 2026/04/04 16:58
>>9 The compaq is not a chromebook.
>12 ecjonas @ 2026/04/08 13:03
>>11 I was confused LOL
>13 kasmo @ 2026/06/12 01:28
worst in specs... but i learn a lot. AMD Am5x86 133mhz + 24mb RAM CD-ROM and Floppy disk Ran Linux slackware, conectiva and freeBSD. Old times
>14 yalla @ 2026/06/12 07:21
>>OP If you mean with "computer" simply "yes, it is Turing-complete", then I'd say it's my "HP-16C Computer Scientist" pocket calculator, which I still have on my desk and regulary use. Spedcs, lifted from Wikipedia: * Memory register 203 bytes (shared with programs) * Program steps up to 203 steps (shared with data registers) Processor speed? I have no clue. It's ono fast. I would estimate it feels like perhaps 20-30 copcodes per second. But fast enough to quickly whip up and test some bit-mangleing when I can't be arsed to start up Root or Python, just to learn again how one sets up Big/Little Endian, LSB/MSB and whatever. :-) ~yalla
>15 pnppl @ 2026/06/13 04:32
>>OP Do microcontrollers count? If not, probably the TRS-80 Model 4 or TI-99/4A. I actually find the TI-99 so weirdly offputting that I've never used it, but I'm pretty sure it's got worse specs, and it doesn't come with any peripherals except a keyboard. The Trash-80 has a real charm though, owing mostly to its built-in monochrome CRT and vaguely scifi aesthetic. Actually, maybe the Psion Organizer II is even worse than both of them. I love love LOVE that thing but it's basically a calculator that runs BASIC.