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Hey Tony!

 TL> I had a working P4 in 2003 and a reasonable AMD system too

I skipped over those.  Same with p1 and p2 back when they were all the rage. 
I did own one k6-2 (amd) but didn't care much for it.  At that time the 486
was still my goto machine although I still had access to sparc's so that could
explain why I was in no rush to upgrade on the home base.

These days the home based ones run circles around ye olde sparc stations.

Life is good,
Maurice

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