On Thursday 26 February 2015 09:22:57 Jim Lewis wrote: > > On 26.02.2015, Dave Stevens wrote: > >> was it even on CD? My first slackware came from walnut creek on > >> diskettes > >> (20 of 'em!) > > > > I second that! > > Well there is no way it was on CD, we didn't have those yet. In case > anyone is interested I still have my original copy of Minix, PC/AT > Version, by Tanenbaum. Spent weeks compiling and tweaking it on my poor > little 286 machine until it gave up and died. > > Jim Lewis OMG, memory jog. My first venture into this area was also with Minix on a 50MB external SCSI HDD running on my Atari ST. It came pre-installed on the HDD :-) My first Linux was much later, Red Hat 3 installed onto a 386 with a massive 100MB HDd which came on floppy but I can't remember how many. Probably in the region of 20 too. I think back then I was still using Compuserv, before the internet really became the internet. That was I think our company's first ever mail server, when only about 4 people in the whole company had email, and our network was thin-ethernet connected to the thick ethernet used by our ICL mainframe. What a pain that was if someone removed a terminator lol We still collected our emails hourly using a dial-up modem connection as did everyone else who wasn't in education or the military. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
