I knew the day would come...

[himemsys]

I am a retro PC hobbiest. I have fully running computers from the MS-DOS days, including a 486/66 and Pentium PC. The 486 started off with an Intel 33Mhz cpu soldered to the mainboard. It was upgraded via upgrade socket to a DX2/66. The Pentium started off with a 120Mhz cpu, was run overclocked at 133Mhz for awhile, then upgraded to a Pentium Overdrive processor running at 200Mhz. Both systems have pretty old, spinning hdds. Not quite period correct, but still 20+ year old hdds. I've maintained these drives with SR5.5 and SR6.0. Out of curiosity, I tried running SR6.1 on them and both would not work. I can't remember the exact message SR6.1 gave me, but it was related to the age of the systems.

I'm quite fine with this as SR5.5 runs well on these systems, but I knew this day would come sooner or later!

 

[Steve]

Out of curiosity, I tried running SR6.1 on them and both would not work. I can't remember the exact message SR6.1 gave me, but it was related to the age of the systems.

Yep. This was by design. I wanted to take advantage of some of the advances that have been made since those (really) old days. And since all 6.1 owners will always have access to 6.0 and 5.0, I felt that was a workable tradeoff.