<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">>Just the simple change from "running this may destroy your</div><div dir="auto">>monitor" to "it just works out of the box" for X is huge.</div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU"><div id="gmail-:2ra" class="gmail-ajR" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></div></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Much of this was due to the change of ISA bus to PCI bus and the associated changes to the functionality of the hardware.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">There was not much information handed back when the CPU probed a card on the ISA bus, so you had to edit the config file to supply that information.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The monitor being destroyed was mostly due to lack of power limiting circuitry. As the scan rate increased more and more power was pulled through the circuitry eventually heating it up to flames. This happened more times after the monitor was separated from the system it was designed for and was paired with other controller boards which would attempt to drive it at higher scan rates. Later "multi-scan" monitors eliminated that problem.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">md<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:23 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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>
<br>
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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