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.