[ubuntu-uk] old Toshiba/OpenBSD

[Steven Roberts]

>    1. Re:  old toshiba (Simon Greenwood)
>    2. Re:  old toshiba (Norman Silverstone)
>
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> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 22:25:25 +0100
> From: Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com>
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba
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> On 6 September 2014 20:56, Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > > There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org),
> > which
> > > is available in floppy and CD images.
> >
> > In case anyone else thinks the site is down, the correct address
> > appears to, unhelpfully, be http://www.freedos.org/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> Do you know, I think I've done that before, I rarely put www in front of a
> hostname anymore and of course it's still technically incorrect according
> to RFC 3986  but you just assume it works, but of course not if the bare
> domain doesn't have an A record.
>
> s/
> --
> Twitter: @sfgreenwood
> "TBA are particularly glib"
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 10:29:39 +0100
> From: Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org>
> To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba
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> On 06/09/14 22:25, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 6 September 2014 20:56, Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:mwild1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:sfgreenwood at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     > There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (
http://freedos.org), which
> >     > is available in floppy and CD images.
> >
> >     In case anyone else thinks the site is down, the correct address
> >     appears to, unhelpfully, be http://www.freedos.org/
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Matthew
> >
> >
> > Do you know, I think I've done that before, I rarely put www in front of
> > a hostname anymore and of course it's still technically incorrect
> > according to RFC 3986  but you just assume it works, but of course not
> > if the bare domain doesn't have an A record.
> >
> > s/
> > --
> > Twitter: @sfgreenwood
> > "TBA are particularly glib"
> >
> >
> Thanks folks, FreeDos has been successfully installed and indications
> are good for being able to use some of the old applications and games on
> 3.5in floppies.
>
>Norman

OpenBSD could have been an option too, possibly. I set that up on an
ancient laptop a couple of years ago. Good fun and it taught me a lot about
Linux!

Steve.
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