I had the expensive 9600 baud modem and waited till the 2x burner was
down to $150. I still have it in a box somewhere.... :-)
On 1/16/07, -ray <ray@ops.selu.edu> wrote:
>
> Ah yes, I remember those days! Except my 486 had a new $500 2x cd-rom
> drive! And downloading all the floppies at 2400baud was just painful
> haha. So I bought a slackware book that came with a CD! No floppies for
> me haha. But then i couldn't install linux with only 4 megs of RAM. So i
> saved up and bought a $200 8-meg SIMM. Kernel 1.2.8 was on the CD but i
> quickly upgraded to 1.2.13...ah those were the days. :)
>
> ray
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
> > Dude, I so remember that! I was in high school with a friend of mine,
> > Jason, and he was the one with the 486. So we bought Slackware,
> > installed it via a million floppies, and spend several days figuring
> > out how to manually configure XFree86. Ah, memories.. ;-)
> >
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