Date   : Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:54:03 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: OT Only Connect

Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Yep. Some of them used a Kalok Octagon.

"Kalok Octagon"??? Sounds like it hails from old-sort-of-Soviet (in 
those days) eastern europe.


> One of those stupid things got me banned from the school IT lab 
> ad-infinitum. Grrr.

:-(


> I started off with a Spectrum +2A, then got a 486 PC a bit later on. I 
> seem to recall being pretty good at Lemmings.. :)

Chuckie Egg was my favourite. I used to occupy myself when my friends 
were trying to get that crappy old spectrum with the rainbow coloured 
keys to load Jet Set Willy.


 > later upgraded to an 800MB Maxtor (which I think I still have...
 > somewhere)

You say that like it is soooo ancient. If I get a web server running on 
the RiscPC, it'll probably be one of those in it until I get around to a 
CF card arrangement.

Which reminds me... if anybody has a 2-slot RiscPC backplane going free, 
email me. I can then put the second slice in storage for a monitor-less 
server won't need to be THAT big.


> I do have some seriously old drives from other machines though...

I have a stack of old clunky IDE drives "just in case they're needed". 
Six or eight or something in that ballpark. Add 'em up, probably won't 
top 1Gb combined. ~480Mb in the RiscPC plus a multipartitioned 10Gb on 
the IDEFS card. A 204Gb+40Gb (both Connor) in the A5000. A dying tiny 
60Mb in the A3000. Aiko has an old 80Gb, Ayleigh has an 80Gb plus a 
250Gb "buffer" for the stuff I record off the telly before I burn it to 
DVD-R. The old laptop (Angelique) has a 6Gb which is on the way out. Oh, 
and 4Gb+8Gb in Azumi, but they're SSDs so are kinda different.

On the other hand, what would be the point of a 200Gb drive hooked to a 
Beeb? You bcould put on a copy of every Beeb thing ever created, and 
barely make a noticable dent in the free space reading...


Best wishes,

Rick.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...