Re: [Staffslug] Eee PC & GPRS connectivity

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 10:16 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: > I went ZX81 -> Spectrum 16K -> Spectrum 48K -> Spectrum +2 -> CPC 464 > Then sold that and got a PC > Epson PC-AT with a 5.25" drive and an 8086 CPU running at 10MHz iirc. It had > a 10MB hard disk and mono text only screen. I seem to have missed a few steps - I sold my ZX81 to buy a new guitar, and didn't get back to computers until a decade later, when my horticultural consultancy business decided that Psion 3 was the answer to their computing needs ;-) That pocket-sized computer had a parallel port adaptor for my HP printer, a portable modem that I used with a VT100 terminal emulator and a little shell script to dial up and get e-mails, and a cribbage game to keep me occupied on train jorneys. Battery life was around a month from two AA cells. =o) However it was a 16-bit deveice, and I wanted a 32-bit to try out GNU, so a series of beige boxes with 486 and pentium chips passed through my hands, running Debian, SuSE, RedHat, and FreeBSD, until I realised that Debian was the one I kept coming back to, and there I stayed :-) Since then I've had various MIPS and PowerPC computers, but seem to be back to Intel-compatibles for now (with the exception of a couple of ARM devices sitting around waiting to be re-flashed). - Richard _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug