Re: What's happening?

Dan Olson
2003-06-06T16:17:11Z

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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