<div dir="auto">Ah. Old slackware floppy images. Needed 7 to get a working OS plus enough network bits to use the modem and get more.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I LITERALLY learned scripting because my wife would pick up the phone to see if I was online :-) </div><div dir="auto">I could get 1 floppy per night. </div><div dir="auto">Now I can get 5gbps into my house. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:24 AM Boris Borisov via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">There is some ancient stuff here:<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:07 Boris Borisov <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><a href="http://slackware.cs.utah.edu" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">slackware.cs.utah.edu</a></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:05 DJPfulio--- via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 5/9/23 07:31, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:<br>
> I'm gonna look at the v 1.3 I found in their downloads. My testing of<br>
> it was from '95-97 time frame. Many thanks!<br>
> <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Life these days with Linux is 1000x easier.<br>
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