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This warms my crusty heart. The first Unix machine I ever used was a 3B1. Great keyboard! IIRC, it only had a 10 megabyte drive, yet managed to have a pretty co
by octetta 7y ago
This warms my crusty heart. The first Unix machine I ever used was a 3B1. Great keyboard!
IIRC, it only had a 10 megabyte drive, yet managed to have a pretty complete development and text-processing environment (i.e. cc/etc and troff/etc).
I really wanted to use GCC on it, but was never able to get enough of the code on the machine at the same time to get it compiled there.
- imglorp 7y agohttps://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator.html https://loomcom.com/3b2/emulator.html
- merlyn 7y agoFWIW: A 3b1 (a tiny 68010 based Unix PC) is very different than a 3b2 (custom WE32000 processor Unix box).
- technofiend 7y agoThey were amazing machines. The phone handling and multitasking was so ahead of its time! Imagine the phone rings, you answer and a notebook pops up for call notes specific to this person as determined by caller ID.
- drudru11 7y agoSimilar story here. Just didn’t have enough knowledge to pull off the interesting hacks. I also wanted to get that modified PAL hack for graphics installed. It was talked about on Usenet. I think about 6 months after getting the machine I ended up plowing my savings into my first 486 and I sold off the 3b1. If I had enough know how at the time, I would have kept the machine.