[SWLUG] Cardiff meeting reminder - new uesr

[noel jhnson]

hi Dave

i have a S7 motherboard but not not know if it works
however the S7 CPU is an over drive chip.
for old 586 pcs so it upgrades s 7 and s5 i think
so if i get an old p75 box from micro mart
it will work.and i do not have a working amiga it
died over xmass now anyway. and i am looking for a cheep one but the amiga
is about to make the big step onto ppc so i am
saveing up for the new amigaone.and i will
run linux on that but i am still going to get
a pc box for linux


noel


>From: " Cridland [Home]" <dave at cridland.net>
>To: discuss at swlug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [SWLUG] Cardiff meeting reminder - Tuesday 7th January
>Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:47:19 +0000
>
>On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:37:54 +0000
>"noel jhnson" <nrj60 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hi
> > If you have, then it is useful to tell us the hardware
> > >specs. There is no point in burning a CD of a distro
> > >which is known not to support that hardware out of the
> > >box. If you haven't yet taken the plunge and bought the
> > >thing, it might be worth saying what you're looking at
> > >to see whether we have any tales of success or woe
> > >with that hardware and specific distros
> >
> > i have some bits  already have a live drive sound card
> > A  s7 233mh chip and two 16mb edo simms
>
>SIMMs? Really? I've got some of them knocking about you can have. I'll 
>bring them if you want. However, if you've got a S7 CPU (Erm... Errrr... Is 
>that K6? Or something?) then you'll also need to find a S7 motherboard, and 
>most of those have gone the same way as SIMMs. Which is to say, most people 
>have them purely because of a fundamental problem with actually throwing 
>bits of hardware away.
>
>(I even keep dead disks. I figure I might need something off them some day. 
>My wife does not understand this habit. Who'd have thought?)
>
>The good news is that really ancient hardware tends to work very nicely 
>indeed with Linux. But then again, so does an Amiga. Just buy another 
>harddisk and slap Linux on it. I've no idea what distributions exist for 
>the Amiga, though, having never owned an Amiga (Okay, I do actually have a 
>4K sitting here, but it's not actually mine) - Google should tell you in no 
>short order, though. (My only Amiga using friend remaining uses NetBSD on 
>his Amigas. When not running kickstart or workbench or whatever it is.) My 
>Google search revealed that Debian, at least, has a port to the Amiga.
>
>The bad news is that if you've only got half an old computer, finding the 
>other half can be tricky. Pop into any computer hardware shop and ask for a 
>Socket 7 motherboard which'll take SIMMs, and watch their faces carefully, 
>and you'll see what I mean. (But, as said earlier, you have a whole Amiga. 
>Which will run Linux just fine.)
>
>Incidentally, I have no idea what a "live drive" soundcard is, but I 
>suspect that on 32M, you're not going to be using it much anyway.
>
>Dave.
>
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