Re: access internet workshop

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> On thursday nightI went to the opening of the Access Creative
> Internet Workshop, (1, Sidney St., up the road from the
> Showroom - http://access.lowtech.org ) They have a network of a
> dozen or so 486s, running RH6.1 & KDE 1.1.2. (yes, that's right)

Are you trying to suggest K is too fat & bloated to run on 486's?? :-)
Really, it's not quite that bad.. not far off, though ;))

> They gave me a tour of the extensive basement area, where I was
> astonished to see a motherlode PC boxes of every description,
> monitors & assorted peripherals piled up to the ceiling. All
> this bonfire needs, I gathered, is the spark of a notion about
> what to do with it. Anyone with any ideas involving open source
> software would be made most welcome.

Gosh, sounds really interesting. I presume you'd be able to link these to a
permanent net connection, or something? What was the £20-odd per month for?
I could certainly dream up uses for machines like that - god knows, I have
enough 386/486 boards in my workshop.... they make excellent routers &
firewalls, as well as being useful for numerous other more fun tasks..

Cheers,

Alex.

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