Antique computers (was Re: LILO and Zone Alarm)

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:51:01AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> mylar wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:56, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> >>mylar wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:40, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Jo
> >>>>
> >>>>6.1?  That's over three years dead!  Why are you still running that?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>And you _really_ should think about updating your Linux.  6.1 is
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>ancient, creaky, full of security holes and not supported anymore by
> >>>>anyone.  Heck, it's still a 2.2 kernel even!  Fedora Core 2 is using
> >>>>the 2.6 kernel.
> >>>>------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>Believe it or not I still have an old 166 mhz machine still running
> >>>Redhat 6.0!!! It's still used to provide backup on demand dialup service
> >>>and dns service to a few machines on a home network. I've patched the
> >>>heck out of it and firewalled it as best I can via ipchains. Dial on
> >>>demand service is still provided by the "diald" daemon. It's an oldie
> >>>but serves it's purpose.
> >>
> >>And I have an Alpha machine with 5.2.  It's more historic than anything
> >>else.  I love having to boot "milo" from a floppy to get it to run.
> >>
> >>That and my MicroVAX II and MicroVAX 3100/10e running VAX/VMS.  Oh, 
> >>yeah!  Ancient technology!  Gotta love it!  (now, where did I put those
> >>old 9-track tapes of mine...?)
> >
> >
> >Yeah, I started with an early version of Redhat (2.0 I think) running
> >one of the early monolithic  1.X kernels on that 166 Pentium. I
> >gradually upgraded to redhat 3.0 then 5.2 then 6.0  where it's stayed
> >since.
> >
> >Way back when I was pretty adepts in running the Vax systems we had in
> >college and I was interested in acquiring a MicroVAX running Vax/VMS for
> >my at home computing interests. Unfortunately as a  college student I
> >couldn't afford such fancy high end computing equipment.
> >
> >I'd still like to acquire a PDP-11
> 
> I've got an old MicroPDP-11 (well, LSI-11) at home that runs (gulp!)
> RSTS/E, RSX-11M/Plus, and RT-11/XM.  And somewhere in the deep, deep
> recesses of my horde is a (get ready!) PDP-8!  Yes, a 12-bit computer!
> Weird! I dunno if it works now or not.  It did when I mothballed it
> 20-odd years ago.  I had WPS-8 on it (a three-user word processor).

Gadzooks!  In 1970, I did my (Univ. of Okla.) senior project on a
PDP-8L.  Rocker switches and TeleType ASR-33 to load the boot loader,
then it would load the OS from a high-speed optical paper tape reader.

> Ah, memories! ;-)

Indeed.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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