• const_void@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    First distro I ever used. Downloaded it from a BBS onto about 40 floppies. Fun times.

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      1 year ago

      Same, same, still remember the install process, and how hard it was to get x11 working, plus how you ended up with twm after.

      And of course having to reboot to escape vim.

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      1 year ago

      I was just going to post the same thing. I actually split downloading duties with a friend of mine when we both had 1 (or maybe 2?) hr / day on our ISPs.

      We even used coloured floppies to colour code the package sets.

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      I used to go into the Sun lab at my university to download floppy images to take home. Good times.

      I remember copying the window manager config files from the Sun workstations and using it on my home computer ( still a 486 if I recall ). What a rush it was just to seeing the screen look the same as those super expensive machines.