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BB1950, on Today, 11:14 , said:

Steve Wozniak, back before he did what he did, said he was saving his $$ so he could have US$25k to buy a VAX, which, at that time, was the price of a house.

Coleco Adam.
I was trying to scrape up money for an electric typewriter and came across one at a garage sale for $50. 1985 I think.  No monitor, used a little b&w tv set.  Had a cassette drive for storage, took forever going backward and forward, just like the mainframe tape drives you saw in the movies.  Taught myself BASIC.

I just spent three days going through a bunch of distributions.
I have three different wireless adapters, all of them are operable under Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows.
None of them worked out-of-the-box.  One I knew had restricted drivers (Broadcom) I would need net access to activate, one has an iffy history with linux, but the last was tried and true. I don't have access to a cable connection, so it was lots of fun having to boot back into Windows to access the net. I finally went back to 10.04, it was good to see a functional linux again.  Three days was enough.  I want an OS, not a hobby.
The problem is with drivers for certain Ralink-based adapters (two of mine are).  Of course, it trickles down into all the Ubuntu-based distributions. A lot of people out there are going to have to learn to compile drivers and fiddle with the kernel. Cries for help with this are filling the community/support boards. I'm sure it's going drive a lot of them to swear off the linux idea and run back to Windows.  Way to go, Ubuntu!
Yeah, some day I may go back and try the kernel mods again, or maybe ndiswrappers, but I've had enough for now.
I tried the Debian-based distros but at installation they refuse to see my external hd.

No hoax, just use your replicator.
"Tea.  Earl Gray.  Hot"

Bad naming.  "Axis" as in WWII?  Axis of Evil?  Or maybe Axis, Bold As Love?

Probably named by kids who have no knowledge of any of the above.