[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[Raylynn Knight]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having participated in the "strut your geek cred stuff by showing off the
> dusty crap you used, or worse, still have" discussion, it occurred to me why
> the typical age of attendance at ALE meetings is rarely including those who
> cut their computer teeth on Win98.
>
> We are a bunch of crusty ol' farts and some of us have truly horrible
> pack-rat tendencies!
>
> Maybe we should have a meeting that is a show-n-tell session of old gear
> that we can still _make_work_. Antiquated technologies demonstration. Maybe
> even some ancient Linux on floppy installs that can be done onto that old
> 386 you know you still have.
>
> I'm sure Aaron has an amiga (or twelve) he could demo. :-)
>
> Hmm. What is the oldest rig we can scrounge, slap Linux on it and add as
> many externals as possible and make it all work. Dual monitor i386SX with
> ata & scsi and floppy with network card, modem, scanner, ham rig, printer,
> sound card, etc...
>

I have 2 Amigas a 2000 and a 4000 that both had a version of Debian
running on them last time I had them booted (2001/2002) time period.
I the following 680x0 based Macs that all have Debian installed:

Mac IIcx
Mac IIci
Mac IIsi
Mac IIfx
Mac IIvx
LC III+
LC 475
Performa 550
Performa 575
Quadra 610
Performa 630
Quadra 650
Quadra 800
Quadra 900
WGS 95
Quadra 950

I used to be active in the
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-mac68k/ project and these were
all used for development purposes.  These last ran Debian 3.0 with a
2.4.24 kernel.  I believe I had Debian 3.1 running on a couple of them
before work and family obligations and work on Linux for Nubus PowerPC
started taking more of my time.

I also have a few 68030 based HP 9000 series systems that I actually
had a Linux kernel boot on at 1 time (somewhere around 2.4.27 time
period).  They last ran OpenBSD around 2004/2005.

I also have the 1st computer I ever owned an IBM PC-XT I bought from
my 1st IT employer in 1985.