[TriLUG] Speaking of Technology

[Ric Moore via TriLUG]

On 05/10/2018 08:45 PM, Ken M via TriLUG wrote:

> The point is it is amazing to me how EASY linux has gotten since I started. I
> remember 20 floppies to install Debian on an old 386 (literally 386) to build a
> print server. Those 20 floppies for me a CLI, the end. I remember the days of
> fighting with ndiswrapper and wifi cards.



I paid almost $500 for a PAS16 audio card and almost SCSI cdrom. THEN 
you had to roll a kernel to make it go. I too first installed from a 
stack of Slackware floppies.  Ah I was much younger then!! Ric

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..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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