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I think I'm a bit too young to compeet with other's one, but here my list: 1) Dell Inspiron (Laptop) 500m P-M, 1.5Ghz, Oct 2003, XP pro 2) Dell Dimension 2400 P4 2.4Ghz, January 03, Xp home, LCD screen 3) Home made Cyrix P150+ (120Mhz), Win98SE Out of order: 4) PII or AMD, don't know 5) 3 HP (P120) Those one are just retired 6) Olivetti PCS286 with CGA screen 7) Laptop Compaq LTE286,20MB, Dos 2 question 1) what is the min. requirement for a LINUX system (Speed and techno of the uP, RAM and DD?) 2) where can i found a disk version of DOS and Pascal or Basic or C for my laptop compaq LTE286. I want it to back up data on serial port for embedded app. My brother have use a Dragon32 in 82-87 (don't remember at all). I will ask us what it happened to it Sam -----Message d'origine----- De : pic microcontroller discussion list [spam_OUTPICLISTTakeThisOuTMITVMA.MIT.EDU] De la part de Mike Harrison Envoyé : vendredi 12 décembre 2003 15:35 À : .....PICLISTKILLspam@spam@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Objet : Re: [OT] - How many computers we own. OK, my list is probably small, but a little more varied than many..... Is anyone else still actively using a 6502 based computer...? (I have a customer who still uses a couple of PETs as IEEE controllers!) Main PC - 1GHz Pentium 3 (win98) in hacked case so the slots and drives are all on the front. Many, many cables emerging..... Tosh Tecra 500 laptop - (Win95/DOS) used almost exclusively in DOS mode for bashing serial commands in & out of PIC/AVR based things. Sony Vaio Picturebook (win98) cute baby laptop used mainly for email on holidays and CD duplication (External SCSI CD drives). Sony VAIO PCG-FX-201 with no battery and dead CD drive (Win2K)- used as an internet terminal in the living room. 2GHz Athlon system recently built to test Windoze XP Media Edition, as I build remote control widgets to control strange UK cable boxes with it. (http://www.redremote.co.uk) BBC Micro (6502 based), in custom rack case - comes in handy when I need to hack up some sort of strange hardware protocol generator/analyser as you can do accurate timing loops in BASIC or ASM! Acorn A540 (ARM based) - I designed a lot of hardware in the past for this range of machines, which were way ahead of their time but marketed incompetently. I have still yet to find anything quicker/better than its BBC BASIC 5 for things like generating sine/thermistor lookup tables etc. for PIC projects. Also holds some old PCB files from when I used PCB software that I wrote many years ago. Often used as a serial port sniffer, but not much else. Acorn Risc PC. Faster version of above - hardly ever used, and will probably be the next thing to go when I need more room! Ancient IBM 386 laptop, bought for peanuts for that occaison I need a second DOS machine for serial port bashing etc. ..and of course a big box of assorted PC mainboards, cards, drives that could probably make about two and a half PCs at a pinch! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList .....piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspam.....mitvma.mit.edu

Samuel BOUQUET wrote: > 1) what is the min. requirement for a LINUX system (Speed and techno of > the uP, RAM and DD?) This depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to run a command line system, anything from a 386 up will do it. If you want to run a graphical interface, the requirements are a bit higher. You can get Linux distributions that will run on a 386, 4MB of ram, and a floppy drive. Just doin't expect to be able to run Netscape on them! A good starting point might be http://www.linux.org Josh -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestspam_OUTTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu

Samuel BOUQUET wrote: > 2 question > 1) what is the min. requirement for a LINUX system (Speed and techno of > the uP, RAM and DD?) I've run RH9.0 on P90's with 500M HD's & 16M of ram. I'm careful about what I load and no X. I'd recommend a 1G drive, be selective about that packages, 32M ram min for X. If you want Netscape or some other RAM hog 64M min. > 2) where can i found a disk version of DOS and Pascal or Basic or C for > my laptop compaq LTE286. I want it to back up data on serial port for > embedded app. Check out the Borland Museum For Turbo C and Pascal: http://community.borland.com/museum/ -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherryspam_OUTcomcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~ncherry/ (Text only) http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge) http://hcs.sourceforge.net/ (HCS II) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList @spam@piclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu

> 2 question > 1) what is the min. requirement for a LINUX system (Speed and techno of > the uP, RAM and DD?) I remember running Linux, with X, on an old greyscale 486 IBM Thinkpad. Think it had about 8 - 16mb RAM. I remember it had a pretty small harddrive, ~100mb. It took some wittling to get X and the devtools on there. It wasn't terribly fast, I could only run once LICQ and xterm. If I ran anything more I seem to recall it segfaulting. It was a version of slackware that installed via floppy. Don't remember the exact version, but it would have been from around Redhat 5 days. -- Michael Davidson Fortune: Take it easy, we're in a hurry. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList KILLspampiclist-unsubscribe-requestKILLspammitvma.mit.edu

That brings up another question. I have several generations of IBM PC's taking up space here. The oldest is the first (active cassette interface, 64 mb motherboard). The newest in this category is a PS2/M80 (386, 80M hard drive, used it to design the house I am in). Is there any use for them other than hauling off to the landfill? Oh ... there is also a TRS-80 II on that shelf as well. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 RemoveMEjohnferrellTakeThisOuTearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

I have a Model 2 and 12. Long live TRSDOS..... I think I paid over $6000 for the Model 12 and a daiseywheel printer and Visicalc. Rick John Ferrell wrote: > Oh ... there is also a TRS-80 II on that shelf as well. > > John Ferrell -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList spamBeGonepiclist-unsubscribe-requestspamBeGonemitvma.mit.edu

But now they are simply robbing me of space... I don't want to think about what I spent on them, I know they were worth it though. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 TakeThisOuTjohnferrellEraseMEspam_OUTearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick C." <RemoveMErixyTakeThisOuTVVALLEY.COM> To: <PICLISTEraseME.....MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 8:30 PM Subject: Re: RE : [OT:] - How many computers we own. > I have a Model 2 and 12. Long live TRSDOS..... > I think I paid over $6000 for the Model 12 and a daiseywheel printer and > Visicalc. > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList EraseMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestmitvma.mit.edu

It would be a crime not to keep an original IBM PC forever. It would be a crime to keep an M80 :-) The TRS80 will certainly have sentimental value in time. RM > I have several generations of IBM PC's taking up space here. The oldest is > the first (active cassette interface, 64 mb motherboard). The newest in this > category is a PS2/M80 (386, 80M hard drive, used it to design the house I am > in). Is there any use for them other than hauling off to the landfill? > Oh ... there is also a TRS-80 II on that shelf as well. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList RemoveMEpiclist-unsubscribe-requestEraseMEEraseMEmitvma.mit.edu

I have a TRS80 Model I in the attic. Level I and Level II basic (via a slide switch). I learned an awful lot with that machine... P. > > Oh ... there is also a TRS-80 II on that shelf as well. > > > > John Ferrell -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

I remember building my own parallel printer port for the TRS-80 Model 1. It was my first "hardware" project, but not my last. I soon had an array of home interface hookups hardwired to the computer, as well as a very early store bought X-10 interface. Gosh that was a few years back. I even took out a loan to get the "Big" model with 16K of RAM. Wow. How times change. Lyle {Quote hidden}>I have a Model 2 and 12. Long live TRSDOS..... >I think I paid over $6000 for the Model 12 and a daiseywheel printer and >Visicalc. > >Rick > >John Ferrell wrote: > >> Oh ... there is also a TRS-80 II on that shelf as well. >> >> John Ferrell -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

I bought the floppy disk & controller for $800. That was the same year I bought my wife a new Ford Mustang for $4500. I got a deal on a box of Diskettes at $40. My first printer was a model 15 teletype. The interface was a from ham radio gleanings. It evolved into Selectric IO printer from a scrapped IBM system. The problem is that I still have some of this junk. I believe the landfill is calling... John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 RemoveMEjohnferrellspam_OUTKILLspamearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

I think I am ready to commit the crime... John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 RemoveMEjohnferrellTakeThisOuTspamearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}

I have 11 Nascoms, all working, and all with ZEAP :o) will probably be with me forever. My first ever computer was a TransTec, if anybody remembers them, huge green/grey. It was in a box at collage. The owner had lost his temper with it and threw it out of the third floor window, i was very lucky the neck on the tube hadn't smashed. But i got it up and running. Has anybody here in England seen the recent advert where two people were staring at a green computer screen, onto which was very very very slowly being drawn a frog or something similar, and the guy shouts, blinding,,,,, this is gonna catch on. Well i remember the days :o) {Original Message removed}

> I think I am ready to commit the crime... If throwing out a "real" original IBM PC you may wish to ask who would want it in exchange for freight. I don't :-) - 10,000 km or so too far away, and I have one already RM -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads

I need to verify that it is among the things on the shelf first. John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 EraseMEjohnferrellspamspamBeGoneearthlink.net http://DixieNC.US NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" {Original Message removed}