>>>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...



      About all I know about VAX is that a legal copy is quite expensive.
I've used it, but that's about all.  And I kinda doubt that there'd be much
else available to work on a System 36.  There ?might? be a linux build,
but....





                       .....Bob

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