Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 12:45:06 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199512201945.MAA00133@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199512201932.VAA22008@grumble.grondar.za> References: <199512201932.VAA22008@grumble.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray writes: > Nate Williams wrote: > :-) :-) :-) Nyah Nyah Nyah! <dodges tomatoes, rotten eggs and other > missiles> > > _I_ started with 386BSD _before_ the patchkit days !!! > <*WHACK* - Hey! No fair! (wipes tomato juice out of eyes)> Hey, I helped start the patchkit, so of course it was before the patchkit days. I think I'm one of the 386bsd 0.1 contributors. :) > I bought this 486dx50 for the same reason. I reckon it has at least a > year of life in it, given my financial situation. Heck - I bought my first > 300MB SCSI drive for UNIX, only I couldn't afford these @#$%ing SYSV4.2 > pieces of %&*! that were going around. Ain't I glad now! The orignal 340MB drive is done now. I thought it went bad so I traded something for a modem. The modem was useless, and it turned out the drive was fine, it was a problem with my power supply. > > It *was* the development box for the 'interim release' and the builder > > of patchkits until WC donated freefall. :) > > Hmm... Piece of history, then... Please take some photographs and submit > them somewhere for posterity. (I volunteer if no-one else does) It looks quite a bit different than it did originally. It's now got a NEC 3x CD-ROM and a nice 17" monitor on it. Much better than the mono-VGA system originally which had 512K of memory. :( Besides, who wants to look at tower case with floppies on it? *grin* Nate
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