[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[miguel]

hmm...not sure fossil driver had to do something with modems...and stuff.

oh well,
-miguel

F. Grant Robertson wrote:

>Reminds me of my ol' 3/60 with the 20" trinitron.  64M comprised of 8x8M DIMM's, and external _everything_.  At the time I bought it I actually convinced some guy that owned a surplus comany to self finance me for it. This was only shortly after I decided I wanted something cooler than Coherent for intel :)
>
>Ah, the days when you actually had to _work_ to have your own unix box.. it's all so easy now. We are _all_ such geeks, as I asked Russ earlier, I'll give anyone here 10 geek cool points if they remeber what a Fossil driver was.
>
>-G
>
>Geek cool points not redeemable for prizes, cash value 1/10000th of 1 cent. Not valid in Tennesee, can not be combined with any other offer.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Tom
>Wiencko
>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:12 PM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Woah, retro!
>
>
>Still in my basement is my old, revered Sun 386i, with 400M disk, 
>who knows how much memory, and a huge (21"?) monochrome monitor.
>
>(sigh) I learned UNIX on this machine.  What happy memories...
>


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