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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject: Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 10:15:38 GMT
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> T-Mobile commenced the shutdown of 2G on 9 Feb 2025...
>
>I'm on T-mobile and my old phone definitely stopped working when they
>shut off 3G here.  Is it possible that the phone didn't have 2G?

Possibly, or 2G only on the same frequencies as 3G, and those were
then repurposed.

>I can run older and smaller distros on those machines reasonably well, I
>think.  That's fine for text editing but it's not so feasible to browse
>the web with them.

That probably depends on the part of the web that you want to browse.

>It's also hard to get PATA solid state disks for
>them

In the meantime, yes.  I have an iBook G4 (from 2004) that killed two
HDDs, so I eventually replaced it with an SSD.  At that time (maybe
2010) PATA SSDs were available.  Some still are
<https://geizhals.at/?cat=hdssd&xf=4832_16>, at the sizes of the time,
and also near the prices of the time
<https://geizhals.at/?phist=898986&age=9999>.

- anton
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