[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[wolf at wolfhalton.info]

Scott Moulton is reputed to have a computer museum.  At least that is
what he says.  Maybe some of the more antiquated stuff could be sent to
him for display purposes.  You could visit on weekends...  At least the
path your apartment would be a little wider in spots.  Every few years I
have a catastrophic storage shed failure, or I would have almost as big
a hoard of stuff.  
Oldest rig to run Linux on.. if we use kernel 1.x the 386 or maybe an
8088.  Use it as a bulletin board for the ALE list.  Recursively
predating Linux itself by some 8 years.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] geezer notice with meeting idea
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:20:57 -0400

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...

-- 
-- 
James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness 
Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits       


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