[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[John G. Heim]

You know, if you build that thing, it might have a practical use as a 
computer for a blind person. Not that anyone would actually want it given 
that in most communities you can pick up a P4 for nothing from someone who 
doesn't want to pay the disposal fee.

Still, I use my original pentium laptop with54 Mb of RAM practically every 
day. You can install linux with speech, mail, web browser, text editor, etc 
in less than 512 Mb.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 9:20 AM
Subject: [ale] geezer notice with meeting idea


> Having participated in the "strut your geek cred stuff by showing off the
> dusty crap you used, or worse, still have" discussion, it occurred to me 
> why
> the typical age of attendance at ALE meetings is rarely including those 
> who
> cut their computer teeth on Win98.
>
> We are a bunch of crusty ol' farts and some of us have truly horrible
> pack-rat tendencies!
>
> Maybe we should have a meeting that is a show-n-tell session of old gear
> that we can still _make_work_. Antiquated technologies demonstration. 
> Maybe
> even some ancient Linux on floppy installs that can be done onto that old
> 386 you know you still have.
>
> I'm sure Aaron has an amiga (or twelve) he could demo. :-)
>
> Hmm. What is the oldest rig we can scrounge, slap Linux on it and add as
> many externals as possible and make it all work. Dual monitor i386SX with
> ata & scsi and floppy with network card, modem, scanner, ham rig, printer,
> sound card, etc...
>
> -- 
> -- 
> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
> Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits
>


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