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From: Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Built by CERN
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:29:32 +0200
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Am Sonntag000013, 13.07.2025 um 18:45 schrieb The Starmaker:
...
> if you bought a computer
> when the collider was built
> your computer would be junk today.
> 
> How do you maintain a collider
> that was first built in 1998?
> 
> Anybody got a piece of gum?
> 
> Why don't you just fix it?
> 
> Fix it?
> 
> YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE WHOLE FUCKING THING TO FIX IT!
> 
> 
> a piece of gum will do for now...
> 
> which version of windows is it running today????
> 
> Win98?
> 

Windows 98 is actually a little outdated.

But Linux in a 32 bit version could eventually work.

I usually use Linux Mint in a 19.?? version, which was the last 
available 32 bit Linux Mint in existence.

Sure, the computers from that era were slow in comparison to computers 
today. But that doesn't say, that they a now scrap or broken.

They could actually work like fresh from the factory.

Only that would be slow in comparison to modern computers.

TH