Old software still works

Abandonware... a term coined for software produced years ago and which is no longer used by a majority of people. That is to say it is useless software, right? No.

Old software is today just as good as it was when it was first released. And you can save a lot of money by using it in your own computer. Which software are we talking about? Here a list:

+ Linux, Windows 98, Windows 95 or DOS as operative systems
+ PER Antivirus as antivirus
+ Abiword (Linux), Openoffice 2+ (Windows 98), Openoffice 1.5 (Windows 95) or Wordperfect suite (DOS) as office Suites
+ Openoffice as composer for .pdf documents and flash animations
+ Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Opera as Internet browsers
+ Old versions of Corel Draw! and Adobe Photoshop for image editing
+ Notetab text-based HTML editors to make websites

...Plus the correct drivers for the hardware you want to use and that's it! You can burn CDs, use a pendrive, play games and everything you want.

But the computer will be very slow...

Yes, but do you really use the speed? You can upgrade your computer a little for a fraction of what a new computer would cost! Your old computer is a Pentium I, for example? OK, visit an on-line store, buy more memory, a bigger hard disk and download their respective drivers and that's it. Your old computer will run like a small bullet and it won't cost you more than fifty bills.

Is it worth? Yes, it is. Heptagrama.com is made in a Pentium Pro 233 MMX with 64 MB of RAM memory and a hard disk of 1.5 GB... believe it or not.

Besides, abandoned computers cause a lot of pollution.