new FC1 install problems -- OLD Codger stories

Jay Daniels drs at pointyhats.com
Tue May 4 15:00:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 06:20:42PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 03 May 2004 17:41, Karen Spearel wrote:
> >Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 01:27:23PM -0400, Karen Spearel wrote:
> >>>A proper lady never reveals her age, but I did have an analog
> >>> computer to play with in 1960...remember when Dr. Dobbs was a
> >>> newsletter and was a charter subscriber to Byte.  Back in the
> >>> good olde days, if you couldn't handle the business end of a
> >>> wirewrap gun, it didn't happen.
> >>
> >> Was it the "Calculo Analog Computer Kit" .... Library of Science
> >> My manual is copyright 1959.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know where there is a  manual for the "Brainiac K-30"
> >> on the net?
> >>
> >> Then there my KIM-1.... lost to a rampage of house cleaning 15
> >> years ago.
> >
> >No, I was actually made by General Electric...I'm a bit of a pack
> > rat but it was jettisoned a very long time ago.  The Altair and the
> > SWTPs went on the last move along with all the Flex and OS9 stuff
> > and the serial terminals...the garage was looking like a museum.
> >
> >Ahhh, the KIM-1...now there was a fun little machine...I still have
> > a fondness for computers with real I/O...7 segment LEDs and a
> > keypad. ;) I sorta snicker at the 4k stack problem...remembering
> > the fixed 128 byte stack pointer on the 6502...which didn't seem
> > much of a limitation at the time.
> 
> And that was one of the reasons I called the 6502 a drain bamaged cpu.
> 
> Now, while I'm here, let me change the subject.  I've been unable to 
> download more than about the first 123k of 
> openssl096b-0.9.6-18.i386.rpm from the updates site here in the us 
> that yum uses.  I've also tried it with mozilla-1.7rc1, which also 
> hangs at about that same point.
> 
> I've got several things that won't run because they cannot 
> find /usr/lib/libssl.so.2 from that package.
> 
> Do I have a problem, or is the file itself defective on that 
> fedora-redhat.com site?  In which case where else might I look for 
> it?
> 
> >KAS

You really should start a new thread.

Did you try ln -s /lib/libssl.so.0.9.7a /lib/libssl.so.2


jay





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