My First Computer and Intel's NUC

The NUC with WiFi and Bluetooth is cute.

My first computer is huge, hravy, beast of  a behemonth.

I cannot lift it's RAM is only 4MB.

It boots up with only a Floppy Drive and I cannot believe all my research work was done on it.

This may be the first research work done on a computer (earlier it was done on paper and a tyoewriter) in my university and University did not have a computer (I did the pioneering work on the network of computers having 16MB computers discarded from America).

By the way nework does not need lot of memory and the server did provide the workload. 

For my research work I used Windows 95 and Office.

The office with bad macros could not get my paper output for publication of the reasrach thesis and print out (I bought a dot mat printer and later Cannon Large printer and still later a digital scanner from my pocket saving from UK. University had none).

They all are in working order and filling my bedroom. 

This piece is about my entry into Linux distributions. 

Since my paper out put was bad I used Sun Solaris OpenOffice 1 for my research work.

It removed all Micrisoft macros and I got the paper layout of my research thesis in A4 papers amount to about 180 pages.

Then I did some search and found Debian, Sues, Mandriva, XandrOS and Redhat boot Floppy disks and booted them on a 10 GB hard disk.

Multiple distributions in one PC.

I never looked back on Microsoft  again after my research work was accepted by the University.

Original hard disk was only 3GB.

I revived the computer and stuck a 80 GB hard disk and would try to install Debian on it today (only one Floppy) and others need at least 3 floppies for installation.

Windows had about 40 odd floppies.

I won't  bott windows at all.

HDD (Parallel) to  serial SATA was a long jouney and I love the NUC with 8GB RAM and 320 SATA inside and 320GB on an external case.

I have Mint(Ubuntu replacement), Debian, Emmabantus and Ubuntu installed and they are running smoothly on 18 WATTS out put and without noise.

What a turn around in my life with Linux.

I do that just before Christmas and I did it by 3rd October and I have three month holiday from Linux.