[mdlug] Found a PS1 for sale and it's not a console

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2014-10-12 at 11:37 -0400, Jeff Hanson wrote: 
> This is your chance to relive that 486 experience.  The slowest system I
> ever installed Linux on was a Cyrix 6x86-P166.  With a PCI sound card it
> could just barely play a 24Kbps MP3 stream.

Performance depended on many things.  I had an 80486 host with 5 NCD
X-stations attached [later replaced with LTSP units]; it could manage
five users comfortably.   Playing Craft, using Word Perfect for LINUX,
compiling code, etc...

The box likely would have struggled supporting one such user locally.

> I had a bunch of 3.5 floppies, mostly FAT16.  Every few years I would go
> through them and about half were unreadable.  I had a few Apple II 5.25
> floppies from my high school days that I tried to get the data off of.
> Most of them had failed also.  I still have a bunch of C64 floppies that
> someone gave me but I have nothing that can read them.

I have a C64 and functioning 1541.  I'd be willing to pay shipping to
acquire those diskettes, provided they are usable.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA