Can only share what I was told about those running backlab
They were the source for this particular machine.
I recall that there was, may still be a program in Toronto that indeed
takes Linux, puts it on laptops, and provides the machines to newcommer
and immigrants families.
Used to be a general training for it as well I believe.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, John G. Heim wrote:
You can't really justify this in terms of keeping a machine out of a
landfill. That machine of yours is going to end up in a landfill one way or
another. There are thousands of newer, better machines going into landfills
every day. You could just keep a different machine out of a landfill.
If you really care about keeping machines out of landfills, you could learn
about Linux and start salvaging machines for other people. When the pandemic
hit, I got my hands on 2 older laptops, put Linux on them, and gave them away
for people to use for Zoom meetings.
But this isn't really about keeping a machine out of a landfill, right?
On 11/1/23 08:52, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Speaking personally, it depends on your part of the world.
my new one came from a group here called back lab that in an effort to
keep items out of the landfill insures surplus motherboards and the like
get kept, for projects like my own.
But that is me.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Butch Bussen wrote:
> Where does one get a computer with isa slots?
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2023, Jason J.G. White wrote:
>
> >
> > On 31/10/23 15:41, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > Given dt.bat can be edited it seems,
> > > any tool that will locate the dectalk internal card?
> > >
> > I am not aware of any such tool. There may be a conflict with the
> > addresses and interrupts used by other hardware in the machine, in
> > hich
> > case you'll have to change the settings on the DECtalk card.
> >
> > I've long since forgotten the details. The manual should be included
> > with
> > the software, though, and it should document the switches. If I
> > remember
> > rightly, eliminating these issues was among the reasons why there
> > was a
> > move in the 1990s to the PCI bus.
> >
> > I would suggest putting together a good plan for what you're going
> > to do
> > if you can't get this working, especially if you expect to rely on
> > it. If
> > it's just a hobby at this point to experiment with old technology,
> > that's
> > fine, but if you plan to use it for serious work than make sure you
> > have
> > alternative options in place.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
