I'm starting the story from the point where I've finally got the system to recognise my USB flash drive (or thumb drive, or key drive, or jump drive, or whatever you want to call it).
To me, this is a vantage point, but the road is not yet clear. I still have to get my USB-driven wireless adapter working. So far, I'm not sure which direction to take. But I know I'm not heading backwards. So as I look at the map ahead, I will give you some backstory:
The HARDWARE
An old PC
90Mhz Pentium
1.2 G Hardrive (Seagate) - came with the PC
4x CD rom (Mitsumi) - came with the PC
16MB ram
ISA sound card (Vibra 16)
1 Floppy disk drive
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA 586AP
Chipset : ALi 1445
Controller: ALi 1449
The SOFTWARE
Award Modular PCI-ISA Bios ver 1.6? (will check my notes)
Windows 95 b
The PROJECT:
I actually picked up another PC on the road and tossed around to figure what to do with it. I decided to pick up the parts and use them for my PC. This was afterall my first PC in Australia. circa 1995.
I retrieved 2 SIMM ram and
1.6Gb Western Digital disk
So now, the hardware has 90Mhz processor with 2 HDD totalling nearly 3Gb and Ram totalling 90Mb. Should be able to do something about that.
I always wanted to try linux, but what for?
And what good would the PC be?
I decided to turn it into a kind of virtual machine. By this I mean:
1) a machine without too many applications on it (eg: word, spreadsheets, etc.)
2) a machine that can get onto the net so it'd serve as an information/search tool
3) need to find a way to save the information.
I decided on a USB. I went to Carribbean Gardens and got me a 2port USB2 PCI card. Plugged that it and it worked, using Windows 95b. How's that possible?
Later -
The PC works
