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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
