My 2c worth (which using Swedish rounding means it is worth nothing now days).
IBM PC XL (i.e. 186) 512Kb memory, 1 5.25'', 360K floppy disk drive. The machine did word processing, small database stuff, email and BBS connection. I have an old Mac LCIII here if anyone wants to try a new sicko installation. I will supply the Debian 1.x distro. Shane On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 21:52, you wrote: > You people are sick!!!!! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 9:38 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Very old distros (was Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats) > > ok i have run Very Small Linux on a 386 sx laptop with 2 MB RAM. > Painfully. beat that! > > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 09:30:58 +1200 > > CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 09:18, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > CF wrote: > > > > I have redhat 2.1 and debian 0.93R6 and Slackware 3.0 to install on > > > > my oldbox - which is most appropriate? > > > > > > Most everyone used slackware in those days. > > > I've got a CD somewhere with an even earlier release, from 1994. > > > Worked fine on my 8MB 486 at the time. > > > > I'm having fun setting up the oldest machine I can... its a 386 DX25 > > with 10 Mb of DIP ram (no none of those pesky modern SIMM things.) > > Inside is > > a Panasonic interface CDROM on a SB16 > > a Tseng ET4000 VGA Accelerator (ISA of course) > > Ultrastor 14F SCSI card > > 3com 3c515 100 Mbit ISA NIC > > Some random 16 bit IDE controller for floppy. > > > > All I need now for it is a hard drive, either scsi, or MFM or RLL. IDE > > is too new for this box :) > > > > If anyone says "install Gentoo on it!" I'll reply with "NO" -- Shane Hollis Notes Unlimited New Zealand Ph: 021 465 547 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
