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> I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden |
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> we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with |
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> 16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes |
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> are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge |
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> wave of nostalghia here :) |
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Yes, those Ataris with 16K on-chip OS and 48-64K memory. (400XL) |
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I bought one then at around '82 for 1000? Marks (=$500), |
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the same price I had to shell for a 3,5" Floppy drive for it, |
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the size of a thick book. My first computer, and I'm 44 too! |
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My first Linux was a tarball with Kernel, shell, and some tools |
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including gcc-1.x with a size of around 1-2 MB (memory fails me). |
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It was 1992, not a year after Linus started the thing. After that, |
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there came Slackware for a few years, SuSE for quite some time, |
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LinuxPPC on iMac, Ubuntu, and now Gentoo for some 1,2 years. |
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Regards, |
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ralf |
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