[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[F. Grant Robertson]

Zaxxon!! Ah, the heady days of waiting the half hour for the Zaxxon tape to load on my Atari 400.  buuuuurrrrrr-beep-beep-beep....buuuuuuuuurrrrr-beep-beep-beep.

-G
(Who still has his 65xe, 2600 and 5200, some in original boxes)


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From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of cfowler
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Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Woah, retro!



If it is an 8088 then I do not rhink Linux will run on it.  The 8088 requires
Protected Modem.  And since v0.1 of Linux, protected mode has been used. 
Kinda a requirement of Unix on Intel.

Just keeo the tandy and play Zork or Zaxxon on it.



On 12/31/1969, "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

>There is a linux port that does not require the functionality of the 386
>chip. Do a Google on linux and 286 and see what floats up.
>
>On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 20:03, Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
>> My parents just retrieved their furniture from long-term storage.  In it
>> they found my Tandy 1000SX!  2 5.25" floppy drives and 640K of RAM!! 
>> Granted, it isn't as cool your stuff...but I wonder if I can get Linux
>> to run on that old 8088?
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 19:40, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> > During a spouse unit mandated cleaning, I was required to get rid of my
>> > TI 99-4A card programmable calculator with the add on memory module and
>> > thermal printer unit and several plug-in program packs including
>> > statistics, statics and fluid flow engineering. Her excuse to have me
>> > get rid of the lot was that the battery pack was dead and the charger
>> > wouldn't run it any more.
>> > 
>> > sigh
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:43, Joe wrote:
>> > > I got a package in the mail from my grandma today, containing
assorted
>> > > junk of mine that she found floating around the house. It contained
>> > > the following items, among others, which I mention purely for the joy
>> > > of having them back in my posession:
>> > > 
>> > > - My Dad's Texas Instruments SR-50 scientific calculator, c. 1975. No
>> > > battery pack, no adapter, no manual. This machine was the central
>> > > computing engine at Dad's land-surveying business for about five
>> > > years in the 70's.
>> > > 
>> > > - My Timex/Sinclair 1000, c. 1982, Z80A, 1K RAM. With manual (!), but
>> > > no power supply, alas. Anybody got a dead one with a working power
>> > > supply they'd be willing to part with? I'd love to see if this thing
>> > > still boots. Hmm, maybe I can pick up a workable P/S at Radio
Snack....
>> > > 
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > 
>> > > -- Joe Knapka
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>Local Net Solutions,LLC                   at a time.          /
>770-493-8244                    .___________________________./
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