if you hadn't already known this about the PDP-8

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Fri Dec 14 11:03:56 2001

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doc [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]
>
> > Yeah... Most distros don't even have a headless install
> > option, and not
> > all PCs will even complete a POST without a video card. But more
> > relevant is the fact that hardly anybody I know, even the geeks, knows
> > what a null-modem cable is for, let alone own a serial terminal.
>
> You must not hang around with very high-quality geeks.
>

That would be the "new" geek who believes the first computer was a Pentium.
I was setting up my C64 next to my PC one day and a "geek" mad the comment
"Oh you can hookup the 64 to the PCs video switchbox"... Is it that hard to
belive that a computer could possibly output something *other* then VGA
for its vidoe?!? Grrrrrr....

Bryan
Received on Fri Dec 14 2001 - 11:03:56 GMT

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