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« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2005, 06:15:30 pm »
My 5600 is on loan to my daughter.  I set her up so that she could check email or IM with it.  She also likes to take it along on vacations to work on her short stories.

You could always build the old Zaurus in to a RC airplane - here's what one guy at IBM did... (wouldn't it be cool to have a job where you got paid to play with this stuff!)
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9733962835.html

I can remeber the VCR with the cable remote but prior to that, I can remember BEING the REMOTE!      Kids have it so easy now compared to what it was like in my day.  Jeez, I'm feeling old now.
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« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2005, 07:44:17 pm »
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A cluster of Z's?
Don't laugh. This is exactly what I want to do with my 5000d, 5500, and two IPAQs: make the worlds slowest supercomputer cluster. Or the most portable - whichever way you want to call it.

The 5500 will probably be the head node, with its 64mb of ram, and the whole thing will be hooked up through USB networking.

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can't be the worlds slowest. I've got a cluster of Cyrix 6x86 166Mhz CPUs. Most mobil maybe, but not most slow. Mine do however have 96MB of RAM.
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« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2005, 05:54:37 pm »
Has OpenMosix been ported to the Z kernel?  If you're making a cluster, may as well do it right.

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« Reply #33 on: November 01, 2005, 12:13:03 am »
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I can remeber the VCR with the cable remote but prior to that, I can remember BEING the REMOTE!      Kids have it so easy now compared to what it was like in my day.  Jeez, I'm feeling old now.
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Was browsing this thread and remembering the old Sylvania TV we had in Florida in the early 60s; the remote control was *sonic*, I kid you not, it contained a tuning fork ... you used it to flip up and down the VHF channel spectrum. We got 2.5 stations in Daytona Beach ... one was iffy, so I call it half a station.

But that was back in the Cretaceous Era, of course. I'm positive for the Age Thing.
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