On Thursday 21 March 2013 15:52:14 Len Ovens wrote: > On Thu, March 21, 2013 9:59 am, Neil wrote: > > That's why my talk about audio production at Ohio Linux Fest focused on > > the > > stuff that *didn't* go smoothly when I switched from Mac to Linux. > > It is interesting how people's experience shapes what they expect. I started in micros on a borrowed TRS-80 Model I. http://oldcomputers.net/trs80i.html With the cassette drive even. Writing games in basic and saving them to tape. Ouch. > Apple > was always out of my price range and still is. I started out with an atari > mega and various bought/shareware/freeware/DIYware. It had a nice > sequencer and as I had only 4 tracks, putting MTC on one track gave me > drums and keys up to 16 tracks as well as three analog tracks. Got > interested in BBSs BBSes. Started on an epson QX-10. http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/qx-10/ With a Hayes smartmodem 1200 http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/Hayes%20SMARTMODEM%201200 that cost me $1,200.00 for the modem and an extra $80.00 for the serial cable. The BBS software was written in basic and I wrote extensive additions for it. > and set one up. only problem I couldn't do music at the > same time. Got an old (even then) 286 MB and PS (no case) and put DRdos on > it and ran maximus. When I got a pc compatible, I ran various bbs systems including fidonet stuff. I wanted to go multiline and bought The Majot BBS by Galicticom http://www.themajorbbs.com/bbs/index.php I spent good money on that baby. I still have the boxes sitting on a shelf in my office. Probably the best hardware it ever ran on was a 386. Some version of DOS I imagine. I think I only ever ran two lines. The board used to be listed in the back of Computer Shopper. I think it was called the zotzBoard. At first I ran that board out of a closet in someone else's apartment. Later it moved to a bell towed at a local monestary where the transmitter for the radio station I currently work for is located. This was before I worked for the station though. > A friend had windows (3.1 back then) ran two lines, > when the second line connected, the first slowed down to 1/4... we're > talking 3kbaud here, and had to use a mechanical timer to restart the > system at least once a day. So when I went two lines I used OS/2 (IBM was > giving 2.1 away in hopes of selling 3.0) I could go on holidays for two > weeks and come back to a running system. One line had no effect on the > other. Then the Internet started to show up. I wanted to do networking, > but IBM wanted big money for network drivers for OS/2. Windows didn't > really have it either. and this was still pre win95. I ended up with Linux > about 93 or 94, Slackware pre 1.0. I ported my BBS over (hand coded the > lot) and have been with it ever since. Apple is still over priced and > windows has never really (for me) caught up, at least in the things that > matter. I have experienced windows in various ways. 95 on my wifes > machine, till it got infected, NT at work, saw lots of crashes, we used > Linux to load/back it up though, win ME was broken and never fixed, win 7 > is slow, even Ubuntu vanilla is faster. I think my first linux may have been slack as well. I was floppy based. (6 floppies?) The a friend and I started ordering Walnut Creek CDs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM > > So Apple has priced themselves out of my interest. I can't afford the > hardware, and most SW has to be bought. Windows still doesn't just work, > you seem to need to buy a boat load of utilities to keep it infection free > and keep it from slowing down, it really isn't a multi user system, but a > multiuser hack on top of a single user kernel (last I checked). MS does > not fix problems in a timely manner. The license seems to indicate that if > I make music on their system they own a part of it. They seem to have a > right to all the files on my disk too... not acceptable. (maybe the lic > has changed?) Anyone with that kind of license would have a right to add > access for themselves to my computer. > > So for me migrating to Linux has never been an issue, it is where I > started, and every time I look at something else... switching looks really > painful, better to make what I have work. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
