Upgrade problems from legacy version of Electrum. Coins stuck on WinXP PC wallet

[77Network]

I think people are steering me in the wrong direction. My question was about how to get an Electrum offline wallet running again on a very old desktop. Most of the advice is ignoring my hardware and assuming this is a newer PC. I think I am forced to upgrade now.

Thanks.

[HCP]

Unfortunately, getting it running on that old hardware is not going to be a simple "point and click" type task... Granted there are still Linux distros out there catering to "old hardware", but they usually involve an amount of customisation to run on CPUs missing certain "modern" features and instruction sets (PAE, SSE3 etc).

Without knowing the exact specs of what you're running... ie. the exact CPU/mobo model and the amount of RAM we're working with, it's difficult to make a specific recommendation on which linux distro you should try (and how to configure it).


Alternatively, the "easy but more expensive" option is to simply buy updated hardware

[77Network]

It is a PIII 850 with 384M Ram.

What I found is that any OS that will run on it, will not have a version of python which works with the current release of Electrum.

I might go with using a non-activated android phone. I don't really like this though because it seem like they are always trying to connect to some kind of network.

[BitMaxz]

I might go with using a non-activated android phone. I don't really like this though because it seem like they are always trying to connect to some kind of network.

Well, I have an Android phone Samsung note 2 which is old I recently removed the wifi/Bluetooth IC module directly from the board to make sure it won't connect to any wifi network and only use it for airgap wallet.

If you want to do the same I think you can do the same but you need a phone tech and tell them to remove those ICs. Now I'm using it as my airgap wallet with a clear camera for scanning QR codes and singing transactions.

[77Network]

I like that idea. I did replace the screen on a phone once. Maybe there is something on youtube that will show me how to remove those parts.

Thanks.