16 Apr
2006
16 Apr
'06
1:07 a.m.
In message <44419590.30705 at msm.umr.edu>
jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote:
I am glad all of you seem to be okay with this, I was
offering to shut up
if not. Sounds like we need to get a pick machine up somewhere for all
to play on :-)
Now that would be neat. For some odd reason, I like playing around with
different OSes, just for the hell of it.
What I'd really like to do (when I get a round tuit) is write a full OS for
my 6502 board, or maybe port OS/A65 to it. That's the problem with homebrew
computers - you get the thing built, get BASIC running on it, then you end up
stuck for things to do with it.
Dave - don't take this off list, it's interesting reading about how you've
taken a machine with an unknown password, then managed to override the
superuser password. This sort of knowledge is very handy for preservation of
old machines - IMHO there's not much you can do from a demonstration
and preservation standpoint without access to the superuser account on a
system (assuming it's a multiuser system that is). Like Doc said - if this
sort of thing (talk of preservation of classic computers) isn't what the
cc{talk,tech} lists are for, then what are they for?
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