24 Dec
2001
24 Dec
'01
9:19 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
You could have always put in a rack and bolted it to your desk. :)
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
You tell me how I can make $$$ and I will not
move to seattle.
Deal? I could move to Antarctica and make linux boxes. Take a
penguin and stuff it in old 386. Stamp exported from 'Finland'.:)
But we didn't export Linux boxes, we imported them. Actually, "co-opted"
is probably a better term. I had to scrounge for a 486DX33 in 1995 to
load Slackware Linux on a box over the winter. Mostly, peons had Dell
316SX machines and managers had generic 486SX25 and 486DX33 w/4Mb, 16Mb
if you were "important". The only cool thing was that McMurdo has its
own Class B address and it was trivial to put my Amiga on the 'net (no
NAT!)
I only had a 486 because I pulled a board out of stock and set it up naked
on my workbench... we had power supplies, motherboards, network cards, etc,
but no spare cases. It also kept my boss from giving my computer away to
fix other people's problems in the short term. He had already given my
desktop away three times when I resorted to a boxless box. The look on his
face when he came around the corner to try it a fourth time was
priceless...
"...I need your PC for... Oh... nevermind..."
-ethan