Ancestors

Written by Matthew Sparby on 2024-12-19 at 04:24

30 years ago, this small classified ad in the back pages of Unix Review Magazine got me started in the world of Linux. Ever since then, I have had at least one computer running Linux pretty much 24x7.

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Written by Matthew Sparby on 2024-12-19 at 04:30

And I still have the CD they sent.

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Toot

Written by Matthew Sparby on 2024-12-19 at 04:32

(It was Slackware)

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Descendants

Written by Matthew Sparby on 2024-12-19 at 04:46

I installed it on my 386DX/40 which had a whopping 16MB RAM, a ~400MB hard drive, and a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive. I have all the components to recreate that system now. I should do that soon.

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Written by Matthew Sparby on 2024-12-19 at 04:48

I connected it to the internet with a SLIP connection via a 28.8kbps modem.

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