student <student@linuxbox.anom.com> wrote:
My the subject line is not confined to Slackware, I still have a hard
drive (currently out of service) that dates back to the SLS distro from
circa August 1992. I remember installing it during a preseason NFL game
involving the Steelers (that's why August 1992 is still top of mind).
It was from a 386/33 mHz computer with 4 megs of RAM. IIRC, the kernel
around that era was .096 pl12. Like you, I got the base floppy set via a
1200 baud Hayes modem -- from a BBS in the Dallas area.
- I still have that hard drive around and most recently fired it up back
around 1999 just out of curiosity. Many of the files still bore
datestamps from 1992 but the system has been upgraded with ad-hoc
modifications up to the point I retired it in early 1995. Since the
drive was so small (seems like it was around 20 megs?), I opted just
to keep it ``as is'' when I finally replaced it.
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