Legacy systems (Was: Re: [SLL] Will I be able to linux?)

[Nicholas Bodley]

Wendell,

 Thanks for a delightful message! Soon, I expect to be digging thru the
HDs at a local thrift/nonprofit store that is run for the benefit of
some good folks. I made friends with the owner, who has a fair bunch of
older computer stuff she doesn't know what to do with. As a result of
some recent Web digging, I found four Greater Boston Area
companies/orgs. that refurb. machines. Might want to work for them
part-time. During warmer weather, we have the MIT Flea Market, which is
great fun; know your seller!

 Someone is installing DR-DOS, Arachne (DOS-based graphical browser),
and an office suite called New Deal ($79; local product) into 286s with
pitifully-little RAM by today's standards. I'd hope to do the same with
Linux.

 Seems that even slow 386s often have HDs > 100MB.

 (Hey! I should keep the -v flag off!)

My regards to all,

|*  Nicholas Bodley   *|*  Autodidact & Polymath * Electronic Tech. (ret.)
|*   Waltham, Mass.   *|*  -----------------------------------------------
|*  nbodley at tiac.net  *|*  The personal computer industry will become
|*  Amateur musician  *|*  mature when routine crashes are unacceptable.
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