[geeks] Octane on ebay for *cheap*

Geoff Reed geoffr at zipcon.net
Fri Mar 29 04:11:51 CST 2002


Tandy Model 16, 8" 5 MB ?SASI? drive,  MicroShaft Xenix... :) a sweet box 
till the HD failed....

At 03:44 AM 3/29/02 -0500, you wrote:
>kurt at k-huhn.com writes:
>
> >>   Yeah, the First One is always the best I think.  Mine was a UnixPC
> >> 7300, a fucking long-ass time ago (1988?).  I had LOADS of fun with
> >> that machine, though I had a hard time adjusting to UNIX from RSTS/E.
> >> And now, thanks to Rob Klar and Mark Tapley, I have a 7300 again! :-)
>
> >My first Unix box was a rescued 486DX250 running an early Linux.  I
> >still have that box here somewhere.  Okay, so it wasn't 'real' Unix...
>
> >My first real Unix box was a Sparc Classic.  Thanks to Visigenic
> >software.
>
>3B2/300, then a few VAXstations, then RS/6000, finally a herd of SS2s...
>
>(And they're all still in use except the 3B2.)
>
>My first exposure to unix was at college in 1986 or so, on a VAX-11/750.
>
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