cas at strotmann.de cas at strotmann.de
Wed Sep 1 22:44:49 BST 2021
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Hi,
the power consumption of old 80286 or 8086 machines are not so bad if you replace the old harddisk with an SD-Card adapter, or use a system with no harddisk (only floppy disk).
I'm able to run an old 286 laptop on a modern battery for many hours.
Greetings
Carsten
September 1, 2021 11:04 PM, "Benjamin Cronin" <bcronin720 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:32 AM defdefred <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote:
1) Manufacturing a new computer is significantly more power intensive.
2) Electronic waste is bad.
3) "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle". First two R's are very important...
Agreed.
How about keeping most of the part and changing only the power intensive CPU? :-)
The power needed to manufacture the components of a new computer are
much higher than the power needed to run an old one for many many
years. No matter how many watts your CPU draws (the Intel LGA775 Xeon
draws 120W, half of their modern high end desktop chips), it won't
match the power draw of silicon fabs. And also the challenges of
working with old hardware and modern software/protocols can be fun.