And speaking of old systems ... I worked for News 2 WKRN-TV in Nashville for a couple of years (the ABC station in Nashville) as the web producer. For the first 8 months I was there, they had me working on a PII 233 with a 15" monitor. Talk about impossible! I didn't even have a tower ... had one of those old Packard Bell looking boxes that your monitor sat on top of. They finally got me a Gateway 2.0Ghz system.
And check out the specs for the computers they just approved for the webteam where I work now (I work for Metro government on Nashville.gov):
Catalog Number: 84 Retail RC964294
Dell Precision Workstation 360 Minitower: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 3.20GHz, 512K / 800MHz FSB 3T328 - [ 221-2670 ]
Memory: 1GB,DDR333 SDRAM Memory,NECC (2 DIMMS) 1GN23 - [ 311-2782 ]
Keyboard: Enhanced Performance, USB (8 Hot Keys) U8 - [ 310-2701 ]
Monitors: 17 inch Dell (16.0 inch vis) M782 Flat Screen CRT Monitor M782 - [ 320-0173 ]
Graphics Card: nVidia, QuadroFX 3000, 256MB, dual monitor DVI or VGA capable QFX3000 - [ 320-2914 ]
Boot Hard Drive: 40GB ATA-100 IDE, 1 inch (7200 rpm) 40I72 - [ 340-9264 ]
Floppy Drive: 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive 3 - [ 340-7634 ]
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP1 with Media and NTFS WXP1 - [ 420-1931 ]
Mouse: USB,Logitech MX-500,7 button w/scroll O7 - [ 310-4327 ]
CD ROM/DVD ROM: 8X DVD+RW/+R AND 16XDVD-ROM with Roxio®, Sonic SE plus DVD decode DRWDV8X - [ 313-2161 ]
Sound: Sound Blaster® Audigy II with onboard 1394 SBA2 - [ 313-1439 ]
Speakers: Dell Two Piece Stereo System A215 - [ 313-2316 ]
2nd Hard Drive: 250GB SATA, 7200 RPM Hard Drive with DataBurst Cache™ 250SATA - [ 340-9744 ]
Systems Management: Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation OMCI70 - [ 420-1638 ]
Other Options: 1394 Controller Card 1394 - [ 320-5440 ]
Hardware Support Services: 3Yr Ltd Warranty + 3Yr Same Day 4Hr On-Site Service (7Days x 24Hrs) U3Y7X24 - [ 900-6310 900-6312 ]
Installation Services: No Installation NOINSTL - [ 900-9987 ]
Mouse Pad: Mouse Pad MPAD - [ 310-0007 ]
Intel Hyper-Threading: Hyper-Threading feature preset to "ON." Can be disabled/enabled in BIOS. HYPER - [ 461-8167 ]
Energy Star: Energy Star™ ES - [ 310-4821 ]
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Not bad for a government web monkey.
I'm excited. They've got me on a 933Mhz right now. This'll be quite a jump.