On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:20:25PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2018 11:42:31 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > When I'm "ignorant" and know it, I refer to myself as a "newbie". > > My first contact with Linux was when Squeeze was just introduced. > > I've been around computers for a while [remember 12AX7 based CPU's?].
> I started with the rca 1802. Still an interesting architecture, one that > was able to function in several rads a minute of atomic radiation. But I > tried the z-80, found it wanting, then the 6809 which put me firmly on a > unix like path, and to this day I still don't have a winders box on the > premises. Yesterday, this one time, I was winding some wire on a winder machine, or rather, contraption. This of course made me a wire winder. So then I was wondering why having a box containing such a "machine" used by someone doing something so glorious as wire winderering, and thus referring to said winders machine box, was so notable. Then I read your next sentence. > Quite a few linux machines though.
