[ale] Ancient desktop

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Tue May 9 08:34:56 EDT 2023


First X Linux I ran was some custom stripped down Linux on fat file system
very similar to zipslack. I believe is called Monkey Linux.

Ole Unisys PC someone gave me 16 Mhz 386SX with 4 megs ram.

Exciting times of experimenting and figuring out stuff. You needed
patience.

On Tue, May 9, 2023, 07:55 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Found the old slackware package entry.
>
>
> https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-8.0/pasture/pasture-sources/tkdesk/tkdesk-1.1.lsm
>
> Yeah. Good times. I think I ran this on a 486dx or maybe that slot 1
> Pentium with the f00f bug.
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023, 7:31 AM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm gonna look at the v 1.3 I found in their downloads. My testing of it
>> was from '95-97 time frame. Many thanks!
>>
>> On Mon, May 8, 2023, 10:34 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I was just installing slackware 4 for fun and there is a package called
>>> tkdesk.tgz. Maybe is what you looking for.
>>> Created by Christian Bolik.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 19:45 Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Skeumorphism FTW!
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:42 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for the very ancient desktop my swiss cheese brain is
>>>>> calling "tkdesktop". I recall it literally was a large desk that filled the
>>>>> screen. Files were in the drawers and directories were file folders. The
>>>>> phone was used to dial the modem. It was written in TCL/TK.
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