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WaWAR_FA:
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(r34t3|) ||\| 1948, 4|34|\||)()|\|3|) ||\| 1951.

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Calum:
christ! that must be harder to write than it is to read! please! have mercy!

lazygamer:
Well on other forums they would flame the shit out of you and say fuck you and ban you.  ;)

Ok lesse /attempts to decrypt

"Oldest known computer running Linux was a Radio Shack TRS 80 model.

Very old piece of shit."

Damn word for word 100pct! My 31337 5|<!11z r0><0r.


Second translation

"Just got done checking.

I was wrong.

It was the Manchester Mark 1.

Created in 1948, abandoned in 1951.

Restarted in 1986 and was remapped to run Linux.

Kids, this was an old box.

64 k total space.

But it did work."

Hmmm amazing. I heard this in another thread and was in shock.

1)Explain how they made it work
2)What exactly is this Manchester thing anyways? A desktop sized computer?
3)What version of Linux?
4)Who did this marvelous feat?
5)What implications does this have for Linux on modern day PC's?
6)How is it an OS that can be jury rigged to run on a Manchester, does not have a Windows program emulator that is near flawless? That's like saying "we can send a man to the moon, but we can't..."

Calum:

1948  Manchester Mark I (1st stored-program digital computer), Whirlwind at MIT


Manchester Mark 1 1944

both pictures taken from this excellent page here.

Here's a little page with instructions for using a Manchester Mar 1 I have yet to see anything that suggests it can run linux however, also it looks as if it was around since 1935 or thereabouts, certainly earlier than 1948...

WaWAR_FA:
the drum drives were all converted to tape by some guys at mit in like 86 or 87 then forgotten until 95 or 96.

some other guys took the whole thing and repaired it to run non gui linux.

im not typing in l33t5|>34|< because that crap is really hard on my brain.

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