[off topic] For the people still using old 16bit vintage PCS - ngIRCd - IRC Server

[defdefred]

I understand, but the point is that older x86 are power intensive.
So OK to have fun as desktop machine, but not as server running H24...

I do use old computer as main Linux machine... I call them "ordinosaure" in french :-) like computosaure...

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On Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 at 10:24, Carsten Strotmann <carsten at strotmann.de> wrote:

> On 31 Aug 2021, at 10:11, defdefred wrote:
>
> > Single Board Computer, like RaspberryPi.
> >
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> >
> > On Monday, August 30th, 2021 at 17:56, Sergei Gnezdov sergei.gnezdov at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > What is SBC?
> > >
> > > On 8/30/21 7:33 AM, defdefred wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why not switching to SBC with less energy used?
>
> because SBCs are not "vintage computers".
>
> The goal of "vintage computing" is not using low resource machines, but keeping, using and preserving "old" machines.
>
> ngIRCd enables "vintage computer" enthusiasts to use vintage hardware for as an IRC server, for example on vintage computer meetings.
>
> Some people (like me) have fun doing so.
>
> A project like ngIRCd is not aimed to have such an IRC-Server run 24h/365d in the Internet (but I guess some people will do, because they can).
>
> Greetings
>
> Carsten