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From: james on 1 Feb 2008 11:20
helmut(a)hullen.de (Helmut Hullen) wrote in
news:AXwJv7hESsB(a)helmuthullen.individual.de:

> Hallo, james,
>
> Du meintest am 31.01.08:
>
>>>> Not to mention the IBM PS/2s (9577 Lacuna, 9577 Bermuda),
>
>>> MCA quality...beware _cheap_ imitations
>
>> I like those machines. Too bad that our current economic principles
>> drive production to single technologies.
>
> Nice machines - I'd look into my archive: had they still ESDI HDs or
> had they already these new IDE HDs?

Those had motherboard IDE and mine have SCSI cards. I believe that the
9577s (s model, not s plural) came from IBM with SCSI cards.

> But running Linux on PS2 machines was a nice adventure, starting with
> kernel compilation and a boot disk ...

Heh. ;v) Mine still run Windows 98 because of a lack of time. My son's
first computer was a 9577 Bermuda that I changed into a Lacuna. We ran a
hodge-podge serial cable about 25 feet to another machine upstairs to
finish installing Windows on that box. Some of the segments of the
serial cable were 9-pin straight-through 6-foot Atari 8bit joystick
extender cables.

Ah, the memories...

> What abour my first computer? cbm 4016. No Linux (I've got this
> machine 1978 ...).

My inferior collection is marked by a lack of pre-Amiga Commodore
equipment.

If you still have that machine I know that some use the UDS810(?) to
connect old 8-bit stuff to the internet. That piece of equipment uses
AT-style modem commands for IP networking. ATD192.168.0.1 to connect to
192.168.0.1, for example. Then a simple terminal program on the 8bit
opens the Internet! ;v)

> Viele Gruesse
> Helmut
>
> "Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
>



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From: james on 1 Feb 2008 11:30
"mr.b" <mist(a)b.com> wrote in news:pan.2008.01.31.15.58.35.18675(a)b.com:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:22:25 +0000, james wrote:
>
>> "mr.b" <mist(a)b.com> wrote in news:pan.2008.01.31.14.53.02.819151(a)b.com:
>>
>>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:44:46 +0000, james wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not to mention the IBM PS/2s (9577 Lacuna, 9577 Bermuda),
>>>
>>> MCA quality...beware _cheap_ imitations
>>
>> I like those machines. Too bad that our current economic principles
>> drive production to single technologies.
>
> yes, to think how superior certain technologies were, that didn't become
> the defacto standards is curious...

I've always thought so, too. And this is against the principles of risk-
management, which have it that in diversity comes lower risk.

> I have thinned my herd down to
> 2-9595A's with P90 complexes that I have hot-rodded to P200MMX w/256ram.
> One runs OS/2Warp4 -forever it seems- and the other still happily hums
> along with Slackware7. I can't remember when the last time was that I
> had to reboot either of these boys. They ain't broke and I ain't fixin'
> 'em.

Congratulations on the 9595A's! If one of those types of machines were to
fall into my hands I'd be most happy. ;v) Sadly, my life is currently
marked by a lack of time and money...

To you and Helmut Hullen, thanks for the memories! We should probably now
return to the newsgroup's topic and stop boring others. ;vD

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From: Tr3x on 1 Feb 2008 12:48

"Loki Harfagr" <loki.harfagr(a)asgard.vh> wrote in message
news:47a17b6f$0$1137$426a34cc(a)news.free.fr...
> Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:42:29 +0000, james did cat :
>
>> Mikhail Zotov <invalid_muxaul(a)lenta.ru> wrote in
>> news:20080130112311.03c98a19(a)mojo.having.fun:
>>
>>> Dear fellow Slackers,
>>>
>>> Are you on old school Amiga user who gave up that most brilliant of
>>> operating systems? Even in case you aren't, we believe you will enjoy
>>> reading "Tux meets Amiga, or Amiga emulation using UAE or E-UAE" by Tom
>>> Newsom.
>>>
>>> The article is available here:
>>>
>>> http://slackworld.berlios.de/2008/amiga.html
>>>
>>>
>> I've an A1000, two A2000's, and an A3000. Thanks!
>
> Yeah, and now we can start up a fresh Amiga/Atari flamewar,
> that's certainly what this group needed the most ;D)
>
> Atari-Falcon ruleZ };->


well :) the wars are usually 68k vs x86 :)


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