Hi TAZOR how old are you dude like 50 wow -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 27, 2019, 6:07 PM, Razer wrote:
> coderman wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, December 27, > 2019 1:22 AM, Razer wrote: > ... >> I stuck with that COCO3 until the early > 90s. I refused to use XT 8088s >> or MS-Dos because they simply couldn't > multitask. I put jNos on one, >> text-file driven tcpip with tools, for ham > radio, then put a bunk IP at >> the end of the nameserver list and pointed > the connection that way. It >> was a ham radio tcp/ip node list. MAYBE a few > hundred kilobytes. A >> half-hour later the XT was STILL chugging it'a way > through the >> nameserver list, and I pulled the plug. > > should have > pressed the TURBO button! ;) > > > best regards, > > (kudos to anyone who > gets it -^ ...) Yeah but it wasn't a turbo model. It also had an ST-225 > Seagate disk drive with 'stiction' problems. Had to slap it like an old tube > tv set to get it to spin up before the beast errored out. I ran the coherent > on an NCR 386 'tablet' that appeared to have been made for route salesman use > that a German ham living in the area gave me (I was using an insurance > company terminal on Packet radio and it was an 'upgrade'). It came with > compiled-on-the-machine Linux, pre-X and I was having fun porting my OS9 > knowledge to that OS when I accidentally munched the OS, so I found the > Coherent OS disks laying around and had fun with it for a while. XP until it > ran out. Then back to Linux/Debian. Currently Debian 8 on an old toshiba 32 > bit laptop. Need to upgrade to 64bit one of these days if only because any > attempt to update the system, with all sorts of files missing from the > repositories, tries to destroy the OS. I still think the thing about 64 bit > being more secure than 32 is a lie albeit it IS much faster. Rr
