Re: Tethering and Linux

[Scott Duensing <scott@jaegertech.com>]

Hey, I never said my first OS - just first Linux distro!  I've got an
Osborne in the basement somewhere.  :-)  Doesn't beat your S100
machine, but hey, it's CP/M!

Scott


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> I can top that. My first OS was CP/M 2.0 in 1979. All documentation was
> mimeographed and/or Xeroxed (TM). No compiler -- everything was done in
> 8080/Z80 assembler. Debugging and patching was done first with Dynamic
> Debugging Tool (DDT), and later with RApid Interactive Debugger (RAID).
> The entire OS fit into the first three tracks of a single-sided 315K
> Micropolis 5" floppy with 15 hard sectors. My first printer was an Epson
> MX80 -- darned near serial number 1. My first modem was a D.C. Hayes
> MicroModem 100 card for the S-100 bus -- 300 baud dial-up! Hot stuff.
>
> --Doc
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 21:26 -0600, Scott Duensing wrote:
>> Floppies?  The first "distro" I installed was a stack of printouts
>> telling me what to download from where and compile!  Only took two
>> days.  :-)
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:04 PM,  <tjc@mvp.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Why, I remember Slackware and 13 floppies and... whoops, sorry, I'm
>> > old.
>> >
>> > No, you're a youngster.
>> >
>> > Slackware took 140 floppies when I loaded it.  Still have some of em
>> > somewhere.
>
>
>
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