[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

[Chris Fowler]

I have kept all my  old Linux CD's including the Hi-Tech subscription. 
If anyone needs and old disti, let me know.

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:04, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> Ray Knight wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:23, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>Joe wrote:
> >> > (My first Linux install was on a 120MB drive,
> >>
> >>>which seemed bloody enormous at the time... But that was before there
> >>>were "distributions".)
> >>
> >>I'm curious, since you mention your first effort.  I think my first 
> >>Linux install was around 1995.  It was cdrom based though.  Slackware.
> >>
> >>I can still remember at marveling at the login prompt...
> >>
> >>How about others??
> > 
> > 
> > Mid 1994 - Slackware from diskette.  Installed on a homemade box with
> > AMD 40 Mhz 386 processor, a whopping (for the time) 16MB Ram, 120 MB
> > Maxtor hard disk, ATI VGA Wonder XL graphics.  I still have the system
> > in my closet.  It ran a firewall on a floppy distribution back in 1999
> > when I still used dial-up access to the Internet.
> > 
> 
> Whoa! That sounds frighteningly scary/familiar.  About the same time....Slackware w/0.99 kernel (floppy distro) on a Northgate 385/25+FPU, 8M, 2x 65M RLL drives and the very same ATI VGA "Wonder" XL.  I still have the mobo mounted on the wall back in my house in Atlanta.
> 
> -- 
> Lost in Tokyo,
>    Keith
> 
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