From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:30:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin62LKZEaRYorsAfHVVitAG8Jd3eQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D984620.4060707@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out
>>> in the old shed somewhere.
>>>
>>
>> It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage
>> might be a little too challenging.
>>
>>
>
> I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the OS in on
> a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. Then it
> may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not sure about the C64 since I got
> me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on TVs and stuff. I still got the scope
> tho.
The first UNIX system was on a PDP-7 with 8K of memory and loaded by
paper tape... so you never know what might be possible. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-03 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 12:36 [gentoo-user] How low can you go? Pandu Poluan
2011-04-01 14:47 ` Einux
2011-04-01 18:59 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-04-01 19:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2011-04-01 20:28 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-04-01 21:00 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-04-01 21:44 ` Bill Longman
2011-04-02 2:06 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-04-02 14:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-04-02 6:24 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-02 12:05 ` Albert Hopkins
2011-04-02 12:17 ` Dale
2011-04-03 0:43 ` Paul Hartman
2011-04-03 2:09 ` Dale
2011-04-03 8:35 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-03 8:53 ` Dale
2011-04-03 10:58 ` pk
2011-04-03 9:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-03 10:04 ` Dale
2011-04-03 11:49 ` Jake Moe
2011-04-03 15:30 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-04-03 23:44 ` Bill Longman
2011-04-04 2:28 ` Dale
2011-04-04 2:48 ` Adam Carter
2011-04-04 3:04 ` Dale
2011-04-03 13:13 ` luis jure
2011-04-04 9:04 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-04 9:13 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-04 9:35 ` OT: Computers-memory-lane.... [Was: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go?] Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-04 9:49 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-04-04 10:15 ` Joost Roeleveld
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