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8 September 1998
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clipped directly from recent outgoing email 'cause i'm too lazy to write anything new right now:
there was a beautiful rainbow this evening while we were playing foursquare in the rain. yay. although i did manage to get hurt twice during the game. nothing terribly serious tho.
oh, and i've got yet more old computers on the way to fill up my desk some more. first i bought an old ibm ps/2, basically for the big red, clicky power switch, as a machine to run linux on. after buying it i figured i should check to find out if i could, in fact, run linux on it, and as it turns out, most of the major distributions do not support machines with the microchannel bus, which is what the system architecture on the ps/2s is based on. but some more looking turned up a whole online community of people into running linux on mca machines.
then i just couldn't resist a dec alphastation, brand new, list price of $2,995, for $299. and while in the alpha mood, i also bought two (although only one is for me) dec multias, which is basically digital's network computer that never caught on. $50 a piece is not a bad price even if it does need ram and a hard drive. so a couple more linux boxes. i'm going to have to come up with names for all these machines tho.
there was a beautiful rainbow this evening while we were playing foursquare in the rain. yay. although i did manage to get hurt twice during the game. nothing terribly serious tho.
oh, and i've got yet more old computers on the way to fill up my desk some more. first i bought an old ibm ps/2, basically for the big red, clicky power switch, as a machine to run linux on. after buying it i figured i should check to find out if i could, in fact, run linux on it, and as it turns out, most of the major distributions do not support machines with the microchannel bus, which is what the system architecture on the ps/2s is based on. but some more looking turned up a whole online community of people into running linux on mca machines.
then i just couldn't resist a dec alphastation, brand new, list price of $2,995, for $299. and while in the alpha mood, i also bought two (although only one is for me) dec multias, which is basically digital's network computer that never caught on. $50 a piece is not a bad price even if it does need ram and a hard drive. so a couple more linux boxes. i'm going to have to come up with names for all these machines tho.