[ale] When I was young

[Chuck Payne]

Hmmm, I thought the e-mail was when I was young, that the computer I
had when I was young in High School. My first go at Linux was in 97
with slackware 96 on a cyrtix i386 with 128M and 250MB servers.

Pup

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> All those computers came with an enclosure!  How can you call yourself
> an early adopter?
>
> I got my first computer by getting the plans to a radioshack color
> computer and then buying parts from Delta Electronics on Buford
> Highway.  (There also used to be an electronic store across the street
> from Delta where I bought parts, but I don't recall the name.)
>
> I bread boarded the whole thing the winter/spring of '80, but I never
> got it to run. :(    But it was just a fun project to try and build it
> anyway.
>
> fyi: By '84 or '85 I had designed a intelligent 8-port uart card for
> the S-100 bus.  It was Motorola 68010 based.  I got that working, but
> by then I was charging for my time not just having fun.  I think I
> built about 30 of those 8-port cards and sold them to Delta to link
> there reservation centers together.  I had to write a SLIP like
> protocol to get the networking to work.  (I don't think the SLIP
> protocol existed yet, or if it did I didn't know about it.)
>
> The main computer OS was UNIX of some flavor so half the SLIP logic
> was in kernel and half was off-loaded to the intelligent uart card.
> ie. It was what they call a TOE design these days.
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> When I was young this was in the early 80's, I remember my first
>> computer cost $2000 it was Atari 130XE (8 bit 128K), with 5 1/2"
>> Floppy Drive with daisy wheel printer. Using DOS 2.5,with Atari Basic
>> on my home tv as the monitor. I was also the odd ball because all the
>> cool kids have C64 and TI99, but I was still cooler that the Apple IIE
>> kids.
>>
>> Pup
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM, SimonTek <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I remember using SLS, and thinking how modern, sleek and wonderful Slackware
>>> was. Ironically enough, this was in the late 90's for me. i wanted to learn
>>> the roots, so i used SLS.
>>>
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