[Colchester] LUG Distro

[Toby Whaymand]

Hi 

Doing a LUG Colchester Distro sounds like a great idea!  I would not
have a clue on how to compile all the packages together so I would have
to take a back seat  but the idea is very cool.

Wayland, thanks for another interesting e-mail I first read about
the Xerox PARC machines in the book I keep going on about 'Accidental
Empires  - it a great read and worth reading even if you know the
history, just for the comedy value - the book is very funny to read!

I can only image what it was like back in 1979 only using highly
expensive computer with command line only on a black and white or green
and black screen and then to suddenly see the   Xerox PARC computer
must of been amazing.  I can't even  guess how it felt.

I would love to try out the HP touch screen computer from the early 80's
with the pen I but that would be really cool in a very retro way...

Thanks

Toby

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> Thanks for your e-mail it was very interesting.  I can remember the days
> when 56K was a lot of memory more so to the home user (I'm 30 now)
> 
> When I was 9 going on 10 back in 1987 I can remember my Dad bringing
> home a Apple Mac with the black and white screen.  The computer was so
> amazing so advance for the time.  That when my love for computers
> started...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Toby  
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> Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 18:26:49 +0100
> From: Wayland Sothcott <wayland at sothcott.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Colchester] Wayland
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> Toby Whaymand wrote:
> > Thanks for your e-mail it was very interesting.  I can remember the days
> > when 56K was a lot of memory more so to the home user (I'm 30 now)
> >
> > When I was 9 going on 10 back in 1987 I can remember my Dad bringing
> > home a Apple Mac with the black and white screen.  The computer was so
> > amazing so advance for the time.  That when my love for computers
> > started...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Toby  
> >
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> In 1979 I visited Queen Mary Collage London. They had a couple of 
> amazing computers, Xerox PARC machines. These were from the Palo Alto 
> Research Center in California. The first implementation of Windows Icon 
> Mouse Point interface WIMP. They were very similar to Apple Mac. They 
> demonstrated a card game in the user interface. This was amazing to see 
> the future of computers. I think it was another 5 years before the Atari 
> ST and Amega not until 1988 before OS/2 presentation Manager and 
> Windows. My first Windows computer in 1989 had 3MB of RAM and it was 
> crap on OS/2 and Windows where as I had been using GEM in 1985 on the 
> Atari ST and the Apricot.
>  It was 1992 before Windows caught up with the first Apple Mac.
> 
> Compared to those early graphical machines Windows Vista is a big 
> disappointment given it's size and development time. True that Windows 
> was totally useless until version 3.0 but that had a lot to do with RAM, 
> if you had 8Meg RAM it was OK. Now you need 2GB and your OK. Apple are 
> far more innovative and their computers far easier for users. However 
> because their hardware and software is strictly controlled they are less 
> friendly for hackers and third party developers. With the OS/X running 
> on Intel Apple have loosened their grip on their OS.
> 
> I wonder if our LUG should do a distro?
> 
> 
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