[AT] OT- Computer help please

[Howard Fleming]

Since the subject has come up....

My first computer was a Xerox 820 II that I built from parts after a 
friend gave me a bare system board.  I installed it in a Televideo 
terminal case, with 2 8" floppies, 2 5 1/4 floppies, and a 60 meg hard 
drive running cp/m.

Used that until I replaced it with a Wyse 486 based computer running ms 
dos or Digital Research concurrent dos (and later windows 3.1).

Now a days I am running Debian linux on my home workstation and servers 
(with one lonely Centos 4 server running on a PIII computer. I really 
need to replace it, but it has been running nonstop (except for power 
outages and moving it a few time) the last 18 years or so...).

As for a tractor reference, I keep a fair amount of digital manuals for 
older equipment on the system, and for the 8N I have in the garage.

Howard

On 3/7/20 12:40 PM, Jim Becker wrote:
> This is getting pretty far from a discussion of loading Linux 
> onto/from a memory stick.  The first computer I worked on 
> (professionally in 1974) was a Datapoint 2200.  It had a 16K main 
> memory and a 2.5M hard disk drive.  I only had those luxuries for 
> development.  My deliverable had to load from a cassette tape and run 
> on a machine with only 8K of memory and no disk drive.
> Here is the wiki description of the computer, a worthwhile read for 
> computer nerds.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
> Jim Becker
> *From:* Mark Johnson
> *Sent:* Saturday, March 07, 2020 7:42 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [AT] OT- Computer help please
>
> The first minicomputer I worked on (an NCR 8200) was designed for a 
> small office with 2-4 users and had 128 K RAM (core memory, no less) 
> and 10 MB of hard disks (2 14-inch platters, that took somewhere 
> between 90 seconds and 2 minutes to spin up).
>
> The core memory was actually pretty handy...I could kill the power at 
> the end of a work day and just turn it on the next morning. Memory was 
> preserved and the system just behaved as if it had gone through a 
> power glitch.
>
> It probably had about as much compute power as that Tandy Model 4. 
> External data storage (and system boot) were via a cassette drive.
>
> Mark J
>
> On 3/7/2020 7:19 AM, cgs wrote:
>> My Tandy Model 4 (1982) had 64k RAM and one 5 1/4" floppy drive.
>>
>> On 3/7/20 8:16 AM, James Peck wrote:
>>> See what happens when I do not include a link.
>>>
>>> My first Compaq 386 bought in 1987 had a 40 MB hard drive.
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>>> *From:* AT mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of 
>>> Mike M mailto:meulenms at gmx.com
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 7, 2020 12:06 AM
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>>> MB or GB? I bought a 16GB (smallest they had) for about $5 at our 
>>> local grocery store.
>>>
>>> Mike M
>>>
>>> On 3/6/2020 11:14 PM, James Peck wrote:
>>>> I bought a 256MB USB stick for $25.99 about a month back. I went to 
>>>> buy another today. They were out of 256MB and 128MB. Is that due to 
>>>> Covid-19 or trade negotiations.
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>>>> *From:* AT mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com on behalf of 
>>>> Alan Riley mailto:arr44 at suddenlink.net
>>>> *Sent:* Friday, March 6, 2020 11:34 AM
>>>> *To:* at at lists.antique-tractor.com mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [AT] OT- Computer help please
>>>> I used this procedure to install Linux Mint 19.3 from the memory stick
>>>> onto my laptop (uefi as
>>>> opposed to legacy bios) in a dual boot configuration with Windows 10.
>>>> It worked very well.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-mint-alongside-windows-dual-boot-uefi-mode/
>>>>
>>>> Alan in Louisiana
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/5/2020 8:50 PM, Mike M wrote:
>>>> > Downloaded Linux Mint onto a memory stick tonight, and so far am 
>>>> very
>>>> > pleased with what I see. It will take a little learning curve, 
>>>> but it
>>>> > sure is more snappy than Windows 7. I'll keep playing with it and
>>>> > learn as I go. I did have to F12 my computer to change to boot
>>>> > sequence, and after that it was seamless. Tractor reference, I 
>>>> used my
>>>> > tractor to drag a couple huge Oaks and a couple Black Cherry trees
>>>> > onto the pavement tonight before some rain set in, and we go into 
>>>> mud
>>>> > season. Created all kinds of hate and discontent as they were 
>>>> dragged
>>>> > through the brush and smaller trees.
>>>> >
>>>> > Mike M
>>>> >
>>>> >
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