On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? I think I got one out >>> in the old shed somewhere. >>> >> >> It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage >> might be a little too challenging. >> >> > > I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the OS in on > a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. Then it > may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not sure about the C64 since I got > me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on TVs and stuff. I still got the scope > tho.
The first UNIX system was on a PDP-7 with 8K of memory and loaded by paper tape... so you never know what might be possible. :)
