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Since the subject has come up.... <br>
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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. <br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
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...).<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
Howard<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/20 12:40 PM, Jim Becker wrote:<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Here is the wiki description of the computer, a
worthwhile read for computer nerds.</div>
<div><a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200"
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
title="markjohnson100@centurylink.net"
moz-do-not-send="true">Mark Johnson</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 07, 2020 7:42 AM</div>
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<p>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).<br>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>It probably had about as much compute power as that Tandy
Model 4. External data storage (and system boot) were via
a cassette drive.<br>
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<p>Mark J<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/2020 7:19 AM, cgs wrote:<br>
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type="cite"><font size="+1">My Tandy Model 4 (1982) had
64k RAM and one 5 1/4" floppy drive.</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/7/20 8:16 AM, James Peck
wrote:<br>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY:
calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span>My
first Compaq 386 bought in 1987 had a 40 MB hard
drive.</span></div>
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color="#000000"><b>From:</b> AT <a
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on behalf of Mike M <a
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 7, 2020 12:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">MB or GB? I
bought a 16GB (smallest they had) for about $5 at our
local grocery store.<br>
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Mike M<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/2020 11:14 PM,
James Peck wrote:<br>
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calibri,helvetica,sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span>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.</span></div>
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on behalf of Alan Riley <a
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 6, 2020 11:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a
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please</font>
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<div class="x_PlainText">I used this procedure
to install Linux Mint 19.3 from the memory
stick <br>
onto my laptop (uefi as<br>
opposed to legacy bios) in a dual boot
configuration with Windows 10. <br>
It worked very well.<br>
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<a
href="https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-mint-alongside-windows-dual-boot-uefi-mode/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-mint-alongside-windows-dual-boot-uefi-mode/</a><br>
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Alan in Louisiana<br>
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On 3/5/2020 8:50 PM, Mike M wrote:<br>
> Downloaded Linux Mint onto a memory
stick tonight, and so far am very <br>
> pleased with what I see. It will take a
little learning curve, but it <br>
> sure is more snappy than Windows 7.
I'll keep playing with it and <br>
> learn as I go. I did have to F12 my
computer to change to boot <br>
> sequence, and after that it was
seamless. Tractor reference, I used my <br>
> tractor to drag a couple huge Oaks and
a couple Black Cherry trees <br>
> onto the pavement tonight before some
rain set in, and we go into mud <br>
> season. Created all kinds of hate and
discontent as they were dragged <br>
> through the brush and smaller trees.<br>
><br>
> Mike M<br>
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