Retrochallenge, 2005

[Tony Duell]

> 
> Tony Duell wrote:
> >>That's too easy, I ran Linux on a 486 for years. 
> > 
> > I still am...
> 
> Aha!  So you *do* have the ability to create PDFs!

Create, or read? This linux box has a text-only display, so I can't 
display pdfs on-screen. In theory I could run ghostscript to print them 
on my LW2 (or can, once I've repaired it...[1]), but I don't have 
ghostscript installed (and I am termianly short of disk space), and 
transfering full-page bitmaps to said printer takes many minutes...

As I said before, for many manuals, it would actually take me less time 
to rediscover the info from the hardware than to print the darn thing.

[1] I know the fault. It's a dried-up capacitor on the protection PCB. I 
almost certainly have a replacement in the junk box. I just need to get a 
round tuit...

-tony