Re: Tethering and Linux

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

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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