-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >> so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest >> assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due >> out? That always brings a few interesting ones. Maybe we should run >> some more google trends charts? >> > > We could reminise about my 486 that doesn't run Debian anymore. I > wonder if Lenny will run on my P-II or if that's another box for > OpenBSD. > > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, > running OS/2, IBM Fortran compiler (the reason I bought a computer in > the first place), WordPerfect 4.?, and AutoCad 11.
Warp 3 was a wonderful OS. Presentation Manager was *really* slick, and formatting floppies while downloading a file at 14.4KBps was something that Win 3.1 could only dream of, and Win93 could only barely accomplish when the moon was full and the stars in proper alignment. DOS-based BBSs still mandated you have one PC per modem, but OS/2 was capable enough to run 6 or 8 modems at full speed. > It died after two years. That second summer was very hot and we didn't > have air-conditioning. The system-board cracked across like a > cookie-sheet in the oven. I don't know if the problem was the board or > the plastic case. Room temp was over 40 C with about 90% humidity. > This happend just as I was entering the summer before final year in > nursing and I was writing many essays and doing stats research (and the > only one in the class doing it in Fortran instead of the stats package > that required MS something). > > I replaced the 386 with my IBM 486 ValuePoint 6492X5C, 16 MB ram (now > 32MB). This box still runs like a charm but gagged on Etch and runs > OpenBSD just fine. > > My P-II was given to me full of cat hair. The people who gave it to me > needed a box with USB. I read the manual for the board and popped out > the cover on the back of the case and lo and behold there are two > functioning USB ports on the MB. :) The PSU is flaky, the CPU fan > bearing is noisy (hostname= rocky, as in a gravel truck). It does take > large drives so is a good second box but it only has 64 MB ram and isn't > reliable (too much heat damage?) to bother adding more. Will it run > Lenny well? > > Any way, I wonder if any on-topic stuff has come up? > > Doug. > > - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH+YZhS9HxQb37XmcRAt3MAJ48TmsewhXrrcUhb41ey73GP6IKTQCgpkqv rc5D+cKpYWa+Ss5ajA+424E= =oQti -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
