Re: Tethering and Linux

[Scott Duensing <scott@jaegertech.com>]

KDE 1.x was amazing back then.  "Is UNIX ready for the desktop?" they
asked.  It is for mine!  As for printing back then, the farthest I
ever got was "lpr is on fire".  :-)

Scott


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Brandon Adams <emidln@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I started on Caldera OpenLinux 2.something. I knew luxuries such as
> KDE 1.x, kppp, and bash. Caldera OpenLinux was even one of the first distros
> to package CUPS so I had an easy printer-installation in 1999. Life must
> have sucked for the rest of you :)
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Charlie Bruce <cbruce8@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I can come close. I started around that time and Kaskaskia Jr
>> College had just dumped punch cards the semester before.
>>
>> 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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>
>
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