[ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

[Lightner, Jeff]

That reminds of a few years back.   One of my coworkers volunteered at
some place that was assisting eastern European refugees.   At that time
we were running Windows 95 on our workstations.

He mentioned they were training those refugees on computers but had
something like old PC-XTs running DOS with WordPerfect.   The company we
worked for us got wind of this and donated some more modern PCs.

What was funny was another co-worker imagining the hiring manager
interviewing one of the people trained on the old stuff on his resume:

"We don't often have applicants with THIS skill set..."

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of John
G. Heim
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:36 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] geezer notice with meeting idea

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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