My current installation is not on full dinosaur hardware (Pentium 4 processor and 1 GB ram), but dinosaur hardware is attached to it. I have a Mustek EP600 Plus flatbed scanner that performs circles around any of the current crop of multi-function printer/scanners. Mustek abandoned support for this scanner prior to XP. (It is interesting that within the last 2 or 3 years they have published a workaround to make the scanner work with XP, but I have not tried the trick) I also have a graphics program that is WAYYYYYYYY more intuitive and easy to work with than any of the current crop of photo tools that are currently available. (I have tried ones like Paint Shop Pro Photo, Photoshop essentials, and just find myself unable to do with them what I can do with Pro Image Plus. Pro Image Plus will only handle 8 character file names and will install, but runs very poorly, on XP and will not install on Vista. (Interestingly, it will install on Windows 7, but runs poorly as on XP.) I do not do any professional photo work, but I am the member of the family that takes most of the family pictures that get distributed around. I have Office 2003, including Publisher and Visio installed and a non-network printer (HP P1100 - also a dinosaur that performs circles around current printers that I could afford), Malwarebites and Avira and other than about 12,000 photos, not much else. Due to my lack of expertise, I am unable to get this computer to network well - file sharing - but it connects to the internet with Ethernet cable and IE6 provides internet access.
As I said in a previous post, this is the most stable and reliable computer I own, or ever have owned.......by a large margin. Long live Windows 2000!
As a side note, I find virtualization and dual booting, etc. quite complicated and troublesome (perhaps clumsy would be descriptive) for my simple mind. I much prefer to assemble a computer for each OS and use a KVM switch to switch between boxes. Just makes everything very simple and uncomplicated. 3 of my 8 computers are a "bank" of computers consisting of Windows 2000, Windows XP (Main computer), and a "play" computer which "samples" various Linux versions, but is currently "sampling" Windows 7. (There is also a Vista box over in the corner that miserably failed to prove its ability to replace XP. This one being the most UN-stable OS I have ever used, including the beat-on, abused Millennium)