I couldn't get my old Dell to boot so I went to the back-up plan. Some of you may remember I built up two Atomic Pis last year I think it was one was a Christmas present for a friend of mine to replace his dieing laptop.

I got mine set-up and found I needed to work around a couple of things. It wasn't long before it was doing computer stuff. I put Zoron OS Lite on mine because has just 16 gb of storage and the OS has all the apps I use day to day.

For being a 1.4 gz quad-core with 2 gb of memory it is a snappy system for what I'm doing. What is very nice it there is no fan noise! I'm sure this will do word processing with Libra Office. I'm thinking I may get Libra CAD to see if it will run it. And to think... just one core has about twice the computing power of my first IBM clone and it's one tenth the size.

I'm wondering if I should mess with my old Dell? Maybe just clone the harddrive to a CD and USB stick?

I will need to get a powed USB hub if I want to use an external drive of any kind.

My grump right now is all my writing stuff is on the harddrive in the Dell. I did put my aircraft design stuff on its own USB stick.

Be safe out there
Blessings femm.