I bought a Thinkpad T40 for new back in 2003 and used it for just shy of 10 years. It's single core processor meant that the web by 2013 was unusuable, but I c

I bought a Thinkpad T40 for new back in 2003 and used it for just shy of 10 years. It's single core processor meant that the web by 2013 was unusuable, but I could get by on the 1024x768 screen and upgrade the memory. It forced me to use script blockers, but for everything else that I used it for (data analysis, text editing) it was fine. I broke it by accident just before its 10th birthday and ended up replacing it with an X60 which was not much faster. But docks were cheap for it, and I was still able to do my research and get a successful 1/4M grant. Which got me a new computer. I fondly think of those two machines which achieved far more than they had any right to. And honestly I sometimes think if the internet and some other bits of software weren't such a mess they'd probably still be fine for most day-to-day things.