On 8/25/2026 12:41 PM, rbowman wrote:
In my OCD quest to rejuvenate old machines I finally dug out the tower
buried under other junk out in the shed. Turns out it's a Compaq Presario 4550. It has a 233 MHz AMD K6 that was AMDs challenge to the Pentium II.
It was pin compatible and could be used in a Socket 7 board. It has 48 MB
of RAM (no, that's not a typo) and a 4 GB HDD. For your computing
convenient, it has a 56K modem. There are 2 USB ports although I think it expects the mouse and keyboard to be plugged into the PS2 ports.
HTTPS requires a lot of calculations. So
are many encrypted software updates including
Windows Update. And modern YouTube is high-
definition (720p and 1080p) and using high
refresh rates.
If you could find text-only HTTP (not HTTPS)
websites.... :)
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