How to load sata_nv before pata_amd on Kubuntu Hardy 8.04

[Neil Winchurst]

On 08/11/10 18:19, gene heskett wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Well, I first got involved with computers when I went to work at the 
then Bristol Aircraft Company in Filton in May 1962. They had one of the 
few main frame IBM computers around. Punched cards, paper tape, big grey 
metal boxes in air-conditioned rooms. Those were the days.

So I have seen a few changes!!

Neil