[mythtv-users] OT: Old Linux (was MythTV : Thank You)

[Tom Lichti]

Scott Alfter wrote:
> Tom Lichti wrote:
>> Brian Wood wrote:
>>> On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chris Pinkham wrote:
>>>>> If you want a really old distro, check out the wikipedia page for SLS
>>>>> and an archive of SLS v1.03, circa the fall of 1992.
>>>> I can one up you on that, I started on Yggdrasil Linux, sometime in
>>>> 91-92. :P
>>> I was going to mention that one but I couldn't remember how to spell  
>>> it :-)
>>>
>>> Now, what CPU were you running. I seem to recall upgrading from a 486  
>>> to a Pentium-I in 1993 (and getting one of the originals with the  
>>> FDIV bug). I had to fill out some sort of form for Intel stating that  
>>> I actually had a need to do floating point division in order to get  
>>> the replacement. Pretty stupid huh? Like having to prove a need to  
>>> type an "F" in order to get a bad keyboard replaced.
>> Most likely a Cyrix 486 class proc. Couldn't afford a Pentium. :) I 
>> recall RAM was about $100 a MB at the time...
> 
> Luxury!  My first Linux box was a 25-MHz 386SX with 4 MB of RAM, a 120-MB hard
> drive, and a 256K VGA card driving a monochrome monitor.  I think I might still
> have a copy of SLS on 5.25" floppies somewhere.

VGA? VGA? Pure luxury. Try an overclocked 16MHz (from 12MHz) 286, 256kb 
RAM, single 5 1/4" drive, with a monochrome TTL display. That was my 
first PC...my first computer was a VIC-20, aside from the Commodore PET 
I used at elementary school...

Tom