On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Thanks Alan, > > Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only > > 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the > > drives and then do new installs from scratch. > > 8G drives!!!!!!!!!! Wow, that comes from the previous millenium.... > > Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office > sounded like it had a Boeing in it taking off!) and I thought they were > old. Now it looks like a young spring chicken in comparison... > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I obtained, free of charge, an iMac G3 (400 mhz?) with a 1 GB of RAM installed about 6 months ago. About a year ago, I got a free Compaq mini tower with a regular cd-rom, 64 MB of PC100 RAM (1 stick), but 4 MB had to be dedicated to video (could dedicate 2, 4, or 8). I took it to my work for a project (my manager couldn't get approved to use a PC for this manner), installed 2 256 MB PC133 sticks a coworker gave me that he had in the trunk of his car from cleaning out his storage. It's running Gentoo with a 10 GB hard drive. No GUI, but eh, who needs that? Runs like a champ. -- - Mark Shields
