[nmglug] AMD 64 bit

[Rob Haag]

Apple DiskII, that takes me back. I could not afford one in the early days,
but the library had a couple. I remember carrying all my data on a couple
floppies, less than 1mb :)

Rob

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Andrew Farnsworth <farnsaw at stonedoor.com>wrote:

> Oh yeah, them were the good old days... back when this:
>
> http://sturgeon.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Apple/Duodisk-1L.jpg
>
> Was VERY high tech and replaced this:
>
> http://sturgeon.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Apple/DiskII-1L.jpg
>
> Makes me all warm and fuzzy just remembering it.
>
> Andy
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Rob Haag <rhaag71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not bad for first hardware, I was just remembering recently how my first
>> computer had floppies (5.25"). My first hard drive was 15mb (yep, that is
>> Megabytes :) ). Now I'm giving my age away, but I know older nerds :) I'm
>> quite surprised lately at how cheap hardware is getting, I find (capable)
>> laptops for under $200. It makes it a bit easier to move onto new hardware
>> when they are so cheap, and recycling old ones is responsible too... so we
>> don't have to milk every last drop of service from the old units.
>>
>> Good luck and your welcome, of course
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:10 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Thanks so much Rob. I've cloned my HD several times as larger cpacity
>>> ones came on market and installed them into this laptop and yes, SATA.  I
>>> think though that it's time to stop trying to make this workhorse pull the
>>> loads that newer OS versions and all the software that I've installed
>>> amount to. amazing to think my first computer was a Mac G3 Desktop with a
>>> 4GB HD!!
>>> I'll check out micro center for sure.
>>>
>>> Thanks again
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/16/2012 09:59 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
>>>
>>> Does your Toshiba have a SATA hard drive? All the new ones do, surely
>>> this unit at Newegg does too. But you may also sacrifice speed/reliability
>>> to swap it out. I may suggest you take an image of your old HDD with
>>> GParted or even the 'dd' command, then put that image on the new hard
>>> drive, then grow the new hard drive's partition to utilize the extra space
>>> (if the new on is bigger (in capacity)... or partition whats left over and
>>> mount that partition too. It's not a fantasy to swap hard drives though, if
>>> you thinking 'will it start up in the new hardware?'  Also, the new laptop
>>> you linked to certainly supports accelerated 3D graphics, which sounds like
>>> a step up for you in that department.
>>>
>>>  Just for the fun of it, check out Micro Center. Not every deal ships
>>> (some are 'in store only'). I re-located to Columbus, OH and we have Micro
>>> Center here, my dad just picked up a really nice Asus laptop for $249 that
>>> supports accelerated graphics, the RAM is a bit lower than what you found
>>> at Newegg, but could be upgraded for $20-30 to 4gb. I have had very good
>>> service from Micro Center too, they are very customer oriented. It's worth
>>> a quick look, but unfortunately most of the 'good' deals are 'in store only'
>>> MicroCenter http://www.microcenter.com/
>>>
>>>  Good luck,
>>> Rob Haag
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:36 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I have the Toshiba satellite with an AMD 64 bit processor. One of my
>>>> main issues is that the notebook doesn't have the newer video capability to
>>>> run Ubuntu beyond what I have, which is 10.10 except in crappy 2D mode (or
>>>> vintage or whatever they call it).
>>>> This Acer laptop
>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081612&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081612-_-EMC-081612-Index-_-LaptopsNotebooks-_-34215371-L0A
>>>>
>>>> is capable, I think, and I'm wondering if I could pop my HD from the
>>>> Toshiba into it and just run with it. Or is that a fantasy? The price is
>>>> great and it gets good reviews.
>>>>
>>>> Advice?
>>>>
>>>> Muchas gracias
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
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