Hello Jamison!

02 Jan 2015 12:11, Jamison Fortner wrote to All:

 JF> My grandmother found a Compaq Presario 5030 (yes, it is a 5030. No 
 JF> messups)

no fidonet ?

 JF> with a Pentium 2 and 256mb of ram (which is max for this computer).

i have a quad pentium 2 here from ibm with 3 powersupply at 1500watt each, it
have plenty of isa slots for extension, onboard is 2 scsi controllers, yes 2,
so it can have 12 scsi ultrawide hotswap disks in front, internal it can have
12 more drives not hotswapped, if one ask ibm about that extender behind the
hotswap drives

i runs perfectly redhat 8 here, but redhat is something to replace with gentoo
or freebsd, where one compiles from sources, not just install precompiled
problems

and i was lucky to get 256MB memory on that computer, it have a memory board
that can hold 2048MB ram

yes its a quad pentium 2, not just a pentium 2 :=)

 JP> I am writing this post on the computer i just listed.

what software used ?

 JP> It has a quantum bigfoot 8.0gb hard drive in it.

neat 5.25" ?

 JP> The computer even came with a WORKING ZIP DRIVE!!!

even more cool :=)
 
 JF> How rare is that?

not very, thay exists, but since thay was expansive at that time, its a keep
and try getthing money later for it, wait until some know that its not just a
pentium 2

 JF> Further more, i am thinking about putting debian on it to see 
 JF> how that works. 

so you think debian works ?


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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