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

[Jeff Hanson]

As/is, no warranty on the diskettes.  They are usable for coasters, shims,
and possibly art projects.  Have about 100 generics that appear to be
unused, probably DS/DD.  The few disks that are labeled imply C64 (GEOS) or
TRS-80.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

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