[ale] To: old timers that have a gmail account

[Jeff Lightner]

I have a copy of Caldera Linux I used at a prior job.

I also have a copy of SCO UNIX 3.2 4.2 and the add on TCP/IP product (it
was an add on back in 1994.

If I dug hard enough I'd probably find copies of DOS 3x and Lotus 123
2.x.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Brian Pitts
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 2:25 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] To: old timers that have a gmail account

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 10:19 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:

> 
> I should dig them out, hook them up to the old 3b2 SVR3 boxes I have
and 
> do a museum presentation for ALE.
> 
> Hey, that's an idea.  We should have a meeting where everyone brings
out 
> that old hardware they've got hanging around for show and tell.  We 
> could add software to that list.
> 
> I've still got my original floppy disc with the 1.1 version of
Netscape 
> on it.  Let's see, I've got some old drdos software hanging around and

> some os2 stuff as well.
> 
> Maybe we could have a retro-install day.  Collect a $1 from everyone
and 
> whoever is able to get the oldest release of Linux installed wins the
pot.

This [0] probably takes the cake.

It would be fun to see who can install linux on the oldest hardware.
Sadly, I've pruned my collection and don't have access to anything
really old right now. Well, there is the PDP-11, but we're afraid to
turn it on... Not that there's a linux for it anyway. I did pick up a
vaxstation today; surprisingly enough someone has ported the kernel to
VAX. [1]

[0] http://lwn.net/Articles/263562/
[1] http://linux-vax.sourceforge.net/

-Brian

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