How to load sata_nv before pata_amd on Kubuntu Hardy 8.04

[gene heskett]

On Monday, November 08, 2010 01:00:40 pm Ric Moore did opine:

> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 16:04 +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> > On 08/11/10 14:13, gene heskett wrote:
> > > On Monday, November 08, 2010 09:05:39 am Neil Winchurst did opine:
> > I thought I gave up opining years ago!! LOL
> > 
> > >> On 08/11/10 02:30, Ric Moore wrote:
> > >>> Thanks, my head hurts now. But, I have some measure of
> > >>> enlightenment that I didn't have before. I think I'll have to
> > >>> re-read this several more times though. I miss setting IRQ
> > >>> jumpers on cards and harddrive jumpers. Heck, I miss CP/M. :) Ric
> > >> 
> > >> Crumbs, you're going back a bit. I too remember CP/M. I even
> > >> remember what it stands for!!
> > >> 
> > >> And I thought I was the oldest on this list,
> > >> 
> > >> Neil
> > > 
> > > Can you beat 76 Neil?  But I didn't come up here via the x86 trails,
> > > I came up through os9 level 1 on a 64k TRS-80 Color Computer, then
> > > to level 2 on a 'Coco3', a while on amigados&  finally to linux at
> > > about RH5.0. 1997ish. But I did read a lot about CP/M back in the
> > > later 70's. So until linux, my mind was relatively uncontaminated
> > > by 8086ish limits.  os9 was a good training ground for how I
> > > thought a *nix should work.
> > 
> > Just, 77 now, 78 next year. Well, we have had very different routes
> > but finished up in the same place. I have people asking me for help
> > with their computers, then they look so surprised when I tell them
> > that I can't help them because I haven't used Windows for years.
> > Sadly, when I tell them that I use Linux a common response is "never
> > heard of it".
> > 
> > Any more oldies on the list?
> > 
> > Neil
> 
> I turn 61 on the 11th. I ain't where you two are, but I'm on the
> tobaggon ride there on greased grooves. I started in '78 with one of the
> first garage built Apple]['s with Integer Basic in ROM. I laid out a
> grand just for two floppy drives and a controller. People came from
> miles around to see one drive copy to the other, going "OOOO!! with
> eyeballs bulging and serious envy on their faces. Got interviewed in
> Esquire Magazine around early 1980's as being one of the prime
> Apple][ software pirates out there. I know, space games are my downfall.
> So, Stallman can stuff it, we MADE software free before he thought of
> the notion.  <evil cackles> Ric

And in late 77 or 78, I was at KRCR in Redding CA as the ACE.  And I built 
a Quest Super Elf (RCA 1802 processor with 4k of static ram, bring lots of 
money back then) and used it to replace a tape dub operation that was 
costing us a generation of dubbing losses to get a locally produced 
commercial on the air.  Built the machine control interfaces, the video, 
everything but the tone generator which I lifted from the box it came in 
with a manual push button.  I replaced it with a pendant box that had 
search buttons to drive the tape machine, buttons to tell it how long the 
commercial was, search to the first frame of video to air, tell it how long, 
with or without a new academy leader, and a 'go' button.  Still in use a 
decade later, and probably until the U-Matic format was dead as a broadcast 
media.

6 years later I took a coco2 and wrote a basic09 program that replaced a 
$20,000 gismo that Grass Valley was selling as an add-on disk based memory 
for their 300 series production video switchers.  Cost 1% of the grass 
gismo, plus it was 4x faster & took english language filenames.  Still in 
use till I retired in 2002.

I even had fingerprints on the pcb's of the camera's that were on the 
Trieste when it went down into the mohole back in '60, long before the first 
4004 chip was made.  Its been quite a ride.  I was a nerd/geek almost 
before the words were invented, as I have done all that on an 8th grade 
education.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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