http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/ News and views from the geek tie guy. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:24:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-48332 Bill Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:06:44 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/#comment-48332 That's actually a very nice looking machine you've got there, for it's age that is. Glad to see I'm not the only one messing with win7 on old hardware - I have 7 ultimate RC running on a Compaq (athlon 1 ghz, 256MB RAM), a Toshiba (P3-933mhz, 512MB RAM), but I haven't tried anything quite as low spec as you've done. That’s actually a very nice looking machine you’ve got there, for it’s age that is. Glad to see I’m not the only one messing with win7 on old hardware – I have 7 ultimate RC running on a Compaq (athlon 1 ghz, 256MB RAM), a Toshiba (P3-933mhz, 512MB RAM), but I haven’t tried anything quite as low spec as you’ve done.

]]> http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-42698 GeekTieGuy » Microsoft also had an OS code-named “Tiger”: OS/2 1.3 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:24:06 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2009/08/03/running-windows-7-rtm-on-really-old-hardware/#comment-42698 [...] (Someone was cleaning up a bunch of old floppy disks at work. I happened to come across them because I needed a floppy for updating the BIOS of a really old laptop.) [...] [...] (Someone was cleaning up a bunch of old floppy disks at work. I happened to come across them because I needed a floppy for updating the BIOS of a really old laptop.) [...]

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