>>BS> You real;ize that mikey will now sugggest that you dump
 >>BS> your antique OS, and switch to his.  After all, if it's
 >>BS> not _his_ way, it's wrong.  :)

 >> hehehe, yup... and so goes the wheel... round and round and round...
 >> seems to be nothing but discrimination of one sort or another somehow
 >> and/or somewhere... i keep looking at this System36 i have sitting over
 >> here holding up the end of the workbench/desk... i keep wondering if i
 >> have enough in it to fire it up and attempt to put some sort of OS on it
 >> (that i don't have to pay $$$$$$$$$$$$$ for)... then the ideas kinda
 >> lean to making it a FTN "server"... after all, it is
server hardware,
 >> eh? ;)

 BS>       About all I can think of would be VAX.

yeah... i've kinda thought that, too... however, not having access to any
VAX stuff and not knowing a thing about it kinda puts the spanner into the
gears... and then there's the 8inch floppy and the 8inch platters 30meg
drive that weighs some 80lbs or so... at one time, i had entertained the
thought of possibly getting linux on it but i'm not as intimately familiar
with the real guts of linux or the 36 as i'd like to be before attempting
something like that... and then, i also don't know if all the minimum
required circut boards are in the machine... several were pulled to be used
as spares for another machine before this one was given to me...

)\/(ark