From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HckWN-0002aw-41 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:50:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3EFnKvA026372; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:49:20 GMT Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3EFj2s8021596 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:45:02 GMT X-Envelope-From: ralf@ark.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l3EFj1t7026521 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:45:01 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with UUCP id l3EFj1JS026501 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:45:01 +0200 Received: by ark.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E37E37BCB; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:42:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:42:52 +0200 From: Ralf Stephan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious Message-ID: <20070414154252.GA25205@ark.in-berlin.de> References: <1943592292-1176466053-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1537984767-@bxe008-cell00.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> <461FF7DD.6080007@gt.rr.com> <4620B980.8090406@bredband.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4620B980.8090406@bredband.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: f68202f8-9e16-496c-a71f-4ac16c478131 X-Archives-Hash: ef617cc827a4d00ac339ff9753a44aa0 You wrote > I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden > we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with > 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes > are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge > wave of nostalghia here :) Yes, those Ataris with 16K on-chip OS and 48-64K memory. (400XL) I bought one then at around '82 for 1000? Marks (=$500), the same price I had to shell for a 3,5" Floppy drive for it, the size of a thick book. My first computer, and I'm 44 too! My first Linux was a tarball with Kernel, shell, and some tools including gcc-1.x with a size of around 1-2 MB (memory fails me). It was 1992, not a year after Linus started the thing. After that, there came Slackware for a few years, SuSE for quite some time, LinuxPPC on iMac, Ubuntu, and now Gentoo for some 1,2 years. Regards, ralf -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list