[ale] Ancient desktop

[Boris Borisov]

slackware.cs.utah.edu

On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:05 DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 5/9/23 07:31, Jim Kinney via Ale 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!
> >
>
> I kept an old Walnut Creek 6-disc Linux collection. Used to buy $15
> updates from Microcenter every 6 months during most of the 1990s.
>
> Can probably find a Slackware 0.96 disc somewhere here.  I didn't have a
> CDROM at the time, so I'd buy 50 floppies and stay late at work to use the
> CDROM drive on my workstation there to build the floppies from the CDROM.
>
> I was living outside Houston then and it was a 45min drive on Sunday
> morning to get to the "PC area" of town. It was a full day to head over
> there and visit NewEgg, Microcenter, CompUSA, and a few others that have
> long died.
>
> Life these days with Linux is 1000x easier.
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