Windows XP - End of Support

[Bryn]

I still use RISCOS. A computer that is 19 years old with a 45 MHZ processor still runs faster than Windows for most everyday applications. I do have a more recent machine, a mere 11 years old, that leaves Windows at the post in virtually all applications.
But I'm no flat-earther, and use a work PC laptop (with XP) plus the most up to date iMac.

Hmm, must get my Sinclair QL down from the loft, and the upgraded Amstrad PCW8256, too. Oh and the Cambridge Z88 and Microwriter AgendA. Come to think of it, there's a ZX81 up there too.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hmm, must get my Sinclair QL down from the loft, and the upgraded Amstrad PCW8256, too. Oh and the Cambridge Z88 and Microwriter AgendA. Come to think of it, there's a ZX81 up there too.

But they were all rubbish.

[Bryn]

Ie QL's restriction to 8 bits was bizarre in the extreme, but both the PCW and the Z88 took a mature chip, the Z80a, and milked for all it could offer. And what a climb-down for Sir Chive to implement BBC basic in the Z88. For its time, the Z88's Pipedream application was streets ahead in terms of combining spreadsheet, word processor and database management in a single program.

[Quarky]

Hmm, must get my Sinclair QL down from the loft, and the upgraded Amstrad PCW8256, too. Oh and the Cambridge Z88 and Microwriter AgendA. Come to think of it, there's a ZX81 up there too.

Time you upgraded to Raspberry Pi.

[MrGongGong]

Whilst doing a gig yesterday with a macbook pro and a borrowed brand new macbook air we had a wee crashette situation time to get the Atari ST out again I think. The most stable computer I have ever owned and it still works (shame about the absence of a hard drive)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

But RISCOS computers are still being produced

http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/products/a9home.shtml

and the Raspberry Pi

http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/newprodpages/prodinfo.php?prodcode=RPI-MODELA256MB

[MrGongGong]

But RISCOS computers are still being produced

http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/products/a9home.shtml

and the Raspberry Pi
http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/in...PI-MODELA256MB

Interesting
but the first one seems to have a 40gb hard drive ?
Fine if all you want to do is write a few documents but impossible for working with things like uncompressed audio files etc

[Quarky]

The great thing about Raspberry Pi is its extreme adaptibility:

http://raspberrywebserver.com/serveradmin/connect-your-raspberry-pi-to-a-USB-hard-disk.html

http://www.crazy-audio.com/projects/raspberry-pi-for-audio-distribution/

[mercia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790582

four months on and I am still using XP with no apparent ill-effects - am I pushing my luck ?

[Quarky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790582

four months on and I am still using XP with no apparent ill-effects - am I pushing my luck ?

Probably not, mercia. I assume you are using your PC/ laptop for your musical researches and social purposes. As long as you use anti-virus regularly, and clean up the PC, computer professionals have advised me it should be ok.

The situation is different for a business like John Lewis which is using its computers to make money from customers. It can't afford knowingly to take risks, which might leave it open to a law suit or financial loss. That was the reason I bought a new PC with Windows 7 earlier in the year. With uncertain results however. A very important email sat in my Junk email folder for a couple of weeks before I noticed it - long enough for me to make an embarrassing mistake!

[amateur51]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790582

four months on and I am still using XP with no apparent ill-effects - am I pushing my luck ?

I'm in the same boat mercs, and so far so good Mind you my machine is getting rather slow and unreliable these days ( it is eight years old) but as my body is getting rather slow & unreliable too (at 62 years old ) I'm not inclined to be too hard on either

[Bryn]

[QUOTE=amateur51... as my body is getting rather slow & unreliable too (at 62 years old ) I'm not inclined to be too hard on either [/QUOTE]

A mere spring chicken. No excuse.

[amateur51]

A mere spring chicken. No excuse.

I had a whole day at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at a central London hospital yesterday (cardiology consultant 'just wanting to be sure' :yikes) and it's left me in an apparently permanent state of physiological anxiety - heart bamming away fifteen to the dozen and rather shallow at that, while I don't
feel psychologically anxious at all - very strange sensation.

That's my story & I'm sticking to it

[Serial_Apologist]

I had a whole day at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at a central London hospital yesterday

Your problems must have been blown up out of all proportion then

[amateur51]

Your problems must have been blown up out of all proportion then

My mistake may have been in having mushrooms for breakfast