That is actually a really cool post Lawrence, thanks for the neat little walk down memory lane. As for the shape of that computer... "Hey Alexa, how do I make a cube consume as much desk space as possible"? :-D E -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, at 21:37, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

I’ve been browsing through a few more of those old issues of Byte magazine, up to its shutdown in 1998. In the final, July, issue, among the items promised as “coming up in August”, was a “software lab report” on “free Unixes”: “We test Linux and FreeBSD to see how they measure up against their commercial cousins as servers and development platforms”.

Presumably as per the typical magazine publishing pipeline, that report had already been done and written up by that point; I wonder if it ever got published anywhere ...

Linux had been getting a few small mentions in the prior issues, along with other free software such as Perl for website development. Though the writers kept referring to these as “freeware” ...

Also in that issue was a mention of an unusual new PC design, called the “Rock City”, from a company called the Panda Project. It was the shape of a cube, balanced on one corner (where the stand was attached).

Hunting around, I found a short item, with one small, intriguing-looking picture, here <https://www.fatsofa.com/rockcity.html>. The actual company website is of course long gone; I tried looking for copies at archive.org, but while the text of the website back to 1998 is there, the pictures are not. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list -- wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz | To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/postorius/lists/wlug.list.waikato.ac.nz