Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-27 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 02:29, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > On 7/26/21 5:36 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > I got it down to 14MB and it would, just barely, boot from the 16MB > > SSD, although you could barely do anything as there was almost no > > free disk space. It was a vain effort

Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-07-27 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 « We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Over the years, though, many other system designs have co

Re: RP/M2 by Micro Methods Inc

2021-07-27 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 9:52 PM David Griffith via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I found a copy of RP/M2 for the IBM PC by Micro Methods Inc. with manual > and some floppies, 8" and 5.25". According to the manual, this was a > CP/M compatible operating system. Doing a web search doe

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-07-27 Thread John-Paul Stewart via cctalk
On 2021-07-26 9:34 a.m., Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2021, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > >> ISTR upstreaming some fixes to Linux UFS support 20+ years ago to address >> this very problem (IIRC OSF/1 or Digital Unix CD-ROMs were also UFS, and I >> had a need to access them

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-07-27 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/27/21 4:27 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707 « We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Ove