I started out downloading floppies at work - as I only had I think 9600bps to OzEmail. I think all of BHP at that had a 384kbps link (via our research labs in Melbourne). Of course you'd get to the 13th floppy at home and find it not working. SLS become Slackware. The "Y" distro was probably Yggdrasil - I might have tried it once or twice.
I then started ordering those InfoMagic and Walnut Creek CDs (after I had bought a "multimedia" upgrade - a 2xSpeed CD-ROM and SoundBlaster card for about $1000). I bought the PC with 4MB of RAM, but fairly quickly maxxed it out with 8M!! Eventually it got a 486 100Mhz CPU. (The promised Pentium Overdrive chip never surfaced, or was too dear something). 4 years later we moved to a Pentium 233MHz system. Fun times. Regards, Martin [email protected] On 6 April 2013 12:24, Michael Chesterton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Heracles <[email protected]> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Ah! The early days! I must have started a little later than you - either > > late 92 or early 93 - as my version was on 11 5 1/4 inch floppies. I had > > to boot on disk 11 and then install using the other 10 floppies. The > > install was awkward but what a sense of achievement when you got it > > working. My system was a 386SX16 with 1 MB RAM. > > I was so impressed with the speed of Linux I have used nothing else > since. > > Heracles > > > > My first install was in about 95-96, there was some distro starting with y > that i have no idea how to pronounce or spell, I think slackware was > my first install, but I ordered a midnight magic cd and tried them all. > A colleague recommended debian and I switch to that. > Full time linux at home was pretty quick afterwards, and full time at > work as a desktop was probably sometime in the naughties. > I ran lotus notes under wine, which ran really well. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
