I bought it the next month (had been using Lite for a few months prior) and I'm still using it. Continuously. I mean, damn.
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A good portion of the world and Lenna herself have asked that image be retired.
Best replacement I've seen: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/
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in theory, 2.4-vintage mainline kernel should be buildable for your system. try it
I should've been more clear. Sure, I started my Linux days on 2.0.36, which booted by floppy, on a Pentium 2. But what I want is some semblance of a distro, with tools and a way to do things, not just rolling my own technically-bootable kernel.
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My search continues for a Linux that will run on my 386SX 25MHz with 8MB RAM. So far I’ve only been able to use ELKS, which technically isn’t a Linux.
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To save you either needed a cassette recorder, plugged into the machine with a special cable, then "SAVE CS1" and follow the instructions. (Start recording, the TI plays sound to the output port, which gets stored on tape. Use "LOAD CS1" to load from cassette, after rewinding to the start of the program.)
Or you needed an expansion box, with a floppy drive, in which case you could do "SAVE DSK1,PROGNAME" to save to "PROGNAME" on the first disk. I didn't have an expansion box.
Neither would have come with the base computer.
My parents were forward-thinking enough to, when I wanted a tape player in 1985, get me a significantly less cool-looking but more versatile desktop model with the plugs to eventually hook up to a computer for saving & loading. Which one day, I did!
Went for the first time a couple weeks ago while on a road trip — incredible! However I counted about two dozen items on display that I own, which tells me I should slow down on the collecting / ramp up the downsizing.
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Anyone else with progressive lenses just think "I already have this"?
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The strangest thing I remember about my ti-99 was that I used to run software off of cassette tape. It was a good way to get games.
Yes, same here. I have this setup replicated and do demos for people whenever there is interest. It's the strongest connection I have to the arcane old ways of computing as I came after punch cards and paper tape.
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Ah, the TI-99/4A. My first computer. What a mercurial beast of thing that was. I desperately wanted a C64 for Xmas but my Dad was somehow convinced to buy one of these. It had about 4 games (including “Hunt the Wumpus”) and so instead of playing the myriad C64 games that all my mates were playing, I was forced to learn BASIC and try to write my own! 45 years later, I’m still programming.
Same!
My earliest memory of anything computer programming is from the early 80s, when a snow day had the two neighbor kids, whose parents were teachers in another district, over to our house with their TI-99/4a. The oldest showed me the entry and running of the sample program Mr. Bojangles. I was enthralled.
A few years later I had one of my own, though at that point it was very long in the tooth. But I still learned its limits, playing (yes) Hunt the Wumpus, Tombstone City, and others, programming, and doing things like composing the Jeopardy! theme song in BASIC.
I have one of these again, with the stuff I had as a kid, and more (like the voice synth) and it's so limited even for the era, but still iconic.