Re: What's happening?

[Dan Olson <dano@agora.rdrop.com>]

I'll give you my take on it:  I suppose the U.S. it probably the worst
place to use as an example because you can probably get a good Pentium for
free :)  Anyway, I recently bought *another* IBM PC, in good working
condition, with a 30 meg MFM drive added, for $1, and decided I'd get
*another* IBM green mono monitor, so I spent another $1.  In other words,
the only difficulty I've had finding working hardware is that most people
have gotten rid of it years ago.  I made an ELKS boot and root disk and it
booted up with no problem, and works great.  I made another disks with a
terminal emulator on it, and had problems getting it working right.  I can
fool with all the usual UNIX commands, but that isn't very exciting, and
I don't know of any other good aplication.

	Dan


On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Emanuele Galloni wrote:

>
> Thank you Jerry,
> I did get it and it seams good.
> The fact that you are going to Rwanda makes it even better.
> One of the things I was working on is the following:
> Originally, some of you guys were saying that ELKS, since it can run on
> any pc, from an 8088 to a Pentium IV, could
> be a very useful in developing countries where old computers are much
> more common that the newest ones.
> Is there anybody who can give me some infos about this side of ELKS?
> Many thanks.
> Emanuele
>
> "jerryc@innerpeace.org" wrote:
>
>   We're not in London, we're in the Smokey Mountains of Asheville NC US.
>
>   But we could do an email interview.
>
>   I don't know what your schedule is, but I'm headed to Rwanda in July
>   with the Inner Peace work. If it's real important to do something in
>   person, I might be able to route myself that way and do a layover.
>
>   I just did a post with a little info about what we're doing. If you
>   didn't get it, let me know.
>
>   Emanuele Galloni wrote:
>   > Hello guys,
>   > I am still trying to give to ELKS some sort of media resonance.. I
> would like
>   > to video- interview somebody about it and shoot some computers and
> palmtops
>   > running it. I am based in London (UK) from were I cover things for
> Lulop.com.
>   > If anybody is still interested and is not too far from here, please,
> let me
>   > know.
>   > Emanuele
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   > Richard Wallman wrote:
>   >
>   >
>   >>On  5 Jun, Miguel Bolanos wrote:
>   >>
>   >>
>   >>>In the new site we will have the status of the project, as well as
> the
>   >>>TODO list and docs, this site is intended to be available in
> several
>   >>>languages.
>   >>
>   >>If you need web space, I'll happily provide some.
>   >>
>   >>
>   >>>Regarding the project it self, the last commit was indeed several
> months
>   >>>ago, i am trying to organize my time to get back into all this.
>   >>
>   >>That's okay, I just thought it may have been abandoned altogether! I
>
>   >>may get round to finished my xmodem and compression programs then...
>
>   >>--
>   >>Richard Wallman
>   >>http://www.murkygoth.uklinux.net/elks
>   >>
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