On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Joshua Marsh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You're certain you bought a Packard Bell? They were often confused with >> other machines, like a Hewlett Packard machine, a Macintosh machine, a >> sewing machine, a scanner, an abacus and a deck of playing cards... >> > > haha! I found a pic of the model I had: > > http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9060/legend100cd.jpg > > I remember thinking how versatile it was being able to screw the speakers > into the monitor or leave them off to the side. The mouse buttons were wavy > which I took to be "modern". I convinced my mom that getting our own modem > from Ultimate Electronics would make AOL exponentially faster. How times > have changed. IIRC I had a similar machine in 2001 or so that I got secondhand (it was old even then) in use as a NAT gateway (with cable Internet!) for a while. Compile times weren't great (it ran FreeBSD) but it did the job. I must've been lucky to get one that was decently put together. JN /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
