OT: Was: Re: LINUX on Windows 98

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jimmy Montague
<rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> It isn't just the hardware. I remember in 1995 I walked into a cubicle
> that was 15 feet square. A single bookshelf, at eye-level, went all the
> way around the cube. It was packed from end to end with a set of
> matching binders that contained -- something. I said to the guy inside:
> "What the hell is all that stuff?" He answered: "It's the documentation
> for Oracle."

I just threw out a 9600 baud Telebit modem.   It came with TWO books
the size of your typical O'Reilly softcover as documentation....

And I distinctly remember replacing 8 512K memory sticks (30 pin) with
2meg units in my (then) girlfriends 486, so it would run the software
that came with her first ever soundcard.   Still Windows 3.1 at that
point. $250 for the ram and soundcard as I recall - and that was a lot
of money back then!   We didn't buy our first CDROM until almost a
year later....

Brian