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My DOS/Linux dual-boot at home was constructed from spare parts, 
including a cast-off Dell motherboard from work that is old enough to 
support two physical floppy drives (it has a 360k and a 1.44M).

It runs IBM PC-DOS 2000 (lightning fast), with DOSSHELL, WordPerfect 
5.1, Quattro, and Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM Edition).

And it runs Ubuntu Hardy Heron, with a fairly old version of Gnome. 
Perhaps if I were configuring the Linux side of it today, I might have 
used Debian, and consulted this List for guidance.

It does NOT run WinDoze, and neither does my PC-DOS 2000 notebook (a 
486). I don't allow WinDoze in the house.

And as to computer museums, I highly recommend the CHM, in Mountain 
View, CA. The only real fault I've ever found with it is that they did 
not see fit to include an IBM Merlin (neither a drive, nor even a pack) 
in their early removable-pack hard drive exhibit.

--
James H. H. Lampert

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Re: Very old hardware... Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2020-07-03 20:10 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... ghe2001 <ghe2001@protonmail.com> - 2020-07-03 20:40 +0200
  Re:  Very old hardware... "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-07-03 21:40 +0200
  Re: Very old hardware... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-07-04 04:20 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2020-07-04 13:20 +0200
      Re: Very old hardware... "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2020-07-05 18:10 +0200
    Re: Very old hardware... Keith bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 09:00 +0200

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