[ale] Cheap Computer

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Lynch wrote:

>How things change.  I remember when 128M was a pipe dream.  That was 
>when I was loading linux 0.12 on a 386-sx system with 8 Mb.  It actually 
>ran.  It ran better when I added an extra 8 Mb.
>
>Of course, I did a lot with my kim-1 and 128 bytes of memory too.  ;)
>
>Jim.
>Vernard Martin wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Brandon Colbert wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Check out www.outpost.com
>>>
>>>They are selling the great Linux computer for $149.
>>>GQ 3131 AMD Sempron 2400+ Processor PC with Linspire 5.0
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I recently bought one of these for a friend of mine. The thing to 
>>remember is that these machines have only a single 128MB DIMM in them. 
>>While this runs linux fairly well, its memory starved. Make sure to buy 
>>some RAM for it when you get the machine :-)
>>
>>V
>>_______________________________________________
>>Ale mailing list
>>Ale at ale.org
>>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Ale mailing list
>Ale at ale.org
>http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
>  
>
I can remember 16K (note that is a *K *and an *M*) machines, and these 
weren't PCs either. They were Super Minis about the size of an oversized 
refridgerator.

Scott Castaline