On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > > assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due > > out? That always brings a few interesting ones. Maybe we should run > > some more google trends charts? > > > > We could reminise about my 486 that doesn't run Debian anymore. I > wonder if Lenny will run on my P-II or if that's another box for > OpenBSD. hmmm... good question. It doesn't seem to me like there's been as much change between etch and lenny, relative to the sarge->etch transition. Of course, being all sid for my human-facing machines, I haven't used an etch-like system in a while now... > > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, > running OS/2, IBM Fortran compiler (the reason I bought a computer in > the first place), WordPerfect 4.?, and AutoCad 11. my household server here (bigmomma, .5TB) started out on an old pentium 90 system with the cpu on a daughter board. over time, that slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the end, I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just the right angle, or the thing would lock up and not boot. Worked like that for years. > > Any way, I wonder if any on-topic stuff has come up? not yet.... A
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