Yes, I do have a couple of Compaqs, and I do agree. They do not play well with others. They should be ostracised.

I enjoy loading ancient desktops with 500mb ram and getting them to work with linux. Puppy will run on near anything.

Don

On 11 November 2017 at 12:25, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 11/11/2017 11:17 AM, Don Tai wrote:
> For me, all desktop brands are interchangeable, as are their components.

I guess you don't remember the Compaqs of a few years ago, that often
used proprietary parts.