A _little_? How many minutes does it take to boot? I have tried booting a
486sx/20 with 4 MB RAM from a premade Win95 setup, and it took a looong
time! I started and finished a major meal and it still wasn't done.
>my girlfriend runs Win95 on a 386/20 Dell laptop. a little slow, but
actually
>not that bad. oh, 4M of ram. the slowest thing is printing.
>
>Kelly
Welcome back tim
Have you been looking around for computers in Guyana? Anything interesting?
Francois
-----Original Message-----
From: tim(a)thereviewguide.com <tim(a)thereviewguide.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 3:33 PM
Subject: Back on the List
Hi. For those who remember, and for those who care, I'm back.
After coming back from my vacation to my new home in Guyana...
(yes, I swore off Kool Aid) and found that it had numerous
problems. After sorting most of them out, getting back on-track,
and then spending lots of time thinking about but not doing, I got
back on the list.
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
This is a request for information as an Internet professional, but it *is*
on topic...
I've met a family who would like to get on the Internet to mainly do email
- but all they have is an Apple 2 GS. Other than a shell account (these
folks seem to be "stick in disk, run command written on disk, scratch
head...) is there, say, a pop3 email client and IP stack software available
for that beast?
(Sorry - not much of an Apple byter - I'm a Radio Smacker myself...)
Thanks for any and all help, and Happy Holidaze!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
=====
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- zmerch(a)30below.com
SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
===== Merch's Wild Wisdom of the Moment: =====
for (1..15) { print "Merry Christmas\n"; }
(from perl.1 man page, version 4.)
Thanks for all the responses. Hans, thanks for the description of your
technique. I'm now in seeker mode for the superhairdryer at yonder
fleamarket. No, I'm not planning on an eBay kit sale... But unlike Allison
three times over, I haven't had a chance to build one (I dont even have an
altair yet, but I do have a few imsais)... and the zenness of seeing one
apart is alluring.
Let me be the first to wish you all a Merry Christmas.... for next year.
Heh
Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
In a message dated 12/23/98 4:27:04 AM Pacific Standard Time,
tim(a)thereviewguide.com writes:
> > I've no idea how Win95 _works_ with 4MB RAM, since it doesn't _work_
> > with 16MB -- though with 16MB it boots within a few minutes. I took
>
<snip>
>
> I agree here, too. Windows 95 really won't like a 486/20. Sure, in
my girlfriend runs Win95 on a 386/20 Dell laptop. a little slow, but actually
not that bad. oh, 4M of ram. the slowest thing is printing.
Kelly
Not having an assembly manual for any of the early 8bit kits (altair, imsai,
etc...) I was wondering about the experiences/success of anyone
DISassembling one *back* to kit form. Anybody?
MIke: dogas(a)leading.net
>Okay. Let's try again. When it says it wants 7 amps at 115, does it
ALWAYS
>want 7 amps at 115volts? or only when the computer it's driving really
wants
>all 300 watts it can put out?
>
It would have to be an awfully inefficient switched to draw 7 amps at full
load.(300w). I would guess that there is a second NEMA connector to plug a
monitor into. The load of that AND the PC at full loading(spinning up HD's
etc.) might add up to 7 amps @ 115v
Dan
picked this up the other day. its a small unit comprising a relatively full
size keyboard and a 3x40 line lcd display. machine also has connections for
rs232, telephone, and din plugs for modem and printer. machine can also run on
batteries or ac power. is this a TDD? might be worth something if it is.
david
TWIMC:
Here's an explanation as to what happened to the blue-planet hard drive
page.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Always being hassled by the man.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 12/07/98]
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:40:52 -0800
From: Shawn Butler <b-planet(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble accessing your site
Thank you for your inquiry:
The site was down for over two days and is now back up!!!!
The DNS IP address changed, and until all the DNS servers
out there cached the new IP, they were accessing the
wrong server.
All the information on The Tech Page is free, and will never
require special passwords for access.
Sorry for the down time!
Blue Planet
b-planet(a)ix.netcom.com
Sam Ismail wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble trying to connect to your hard drive page.
> When I enter in the URL
>
> http://www.blue-planet.com/tech/no_frames.html
>
> I get a login window. I hit cancel and then get some noise about how I'm
> not authorized to access the page. Other people I know are experiecing
> the same problem, but still others are not and can get into the site fine.
> Can you shed some light on this? Thanks.
>
> Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Always being hassled by the man.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 12/07/98]
At 06:33 PM 12/21/98 +1, you wrote:
>to build a Z3 or Mark I). Also later on things like GUI
>have been developed in a non capitalist environment. Not
I know it sure *seems* like it, but really, Xerox was never out to lose
money on computers...
And I won't bother mentioning Apple or Microsloth...
(Oh, okay I will -- I'll stipulate that Woz may have been in it for fun,
but Jobs was/is definitely in it for the money.)
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