[ale] Ancient desktop

[Jim Kinney]

Ah. Old slackware floppy images. Needed 7 to get a working OS plus enough
network bits to use the modem and get more.

I LITERALLY learned scripting because my wife would pick up the phone to
see if I was online :-)
I could get 1 floppy per night.
Now I can get 5gbps into my house.

Kids these days have no idea how much easier things are now. Just the
simple change from "running this may destroy your monitor" to "it just
works out of the box" for X is huge.

On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:24 AM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> There is some ancient stuff here:
>
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/
>
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:07 Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> slackware.cs.utah.edu
>>
>> On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:05 DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/9/23 07:31, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>>> > I'm gonna look at the v 1.3 I found in their downloads. My testing of
>>> > it was from '95-97 time frame. Many thanks!
>>> >
>>>
>>> I kept an old Walnut Creek 6-disc Linux collection. Used to buy $15
>>> updates from Microcenter every 6 months during most of the 1990s.
>>>
>>> Can probably find a Slackware 0.96 disc somewhere here.  I didn't have a
>>> CDROM at the time, so I'd buy 50 floppies and stay late at work to use the
>>> CDROM drive on my workstation there to build the floppies from the CDROM.
>>>
>>> I was living outside Houston then and it was a 45min drive on Sunday
>>> morning to get to the "PC area" of town. It was a full day to head over
>>> there and visit NewEgg, Microcenter, CompUSA, and a few others that have
>>> long died.
>>>
>>> Life these days with Linux is 1000x easier.
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