What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?
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Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Thanks for all the posts, keep them coming! I'll periodically check on the thread and will continue to upgrade members as they post; no guarantee on how long that offer will last though. The following members will be upgrade to Contributing Members.
Honerable mentions (also upgraded to Contributing Member)
sollon - 8 inch floppy
Note that while the CD I posted was from early 1996, I upgraded anyone who posted a CD from 1996 or earlier. Now, on to the winner. It appears we may have a 2 way (and could have been 3 way, as HaveQuestion never uploaded a pic) tie, with thyrsus and spernoga both having "Fall of 1993" CDs. As Yggdrasil was also my first distro (and I think the Fall 1993 CD was actually the one I had), I am going to buy you both something from the LQ Merchandise Store. Please pick an item and contact me offline.
If I missed anyone or you spot an error, please let me know.
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I still have my The Linux Bible Second Ed. by Yggdrasil, no pub date. "Fun" artifacts to look at.
At 10*8*1.75-In*3 ; it defines the "thud-book" early technology days.
And, What a name? How would you like to have to sign checks with that?
Finally, thanks.
This is the second time I've been bestowed non-meritorious honors; just for being old.
The first when I started receiving Senior discounts at the Golf Course & Amtrack.
Here is what I uncovered at my school. They were actually two separate items. One is Windows 3.1.1, the other is MS-DOS. Both are still in their original factory plastic shrink-wrap. (Side note: I remember hearing that unopened copies of DOS are worth something, can anyone confirm or deny this?)
AstroGeek definitely beat me - my first meeting with Linux was in 2000 courtesy of Corel, who badged a version of Debian. My first "*nix"experience, OTOH, was in 1974 - in Queen Mary College, University of London. The manual was photocopies of the man pages, shipped over from the US along with the distro tape for the PDP-11 we were running it on! Here are (hopefully) some pictures!
Mike
PS The photos are scans of photos (which are too large to upload). The single is the OS, the other is the OS (including source disc), Word Perfect Suite, and Corel Draw, all for Corel's Debian Linux 2000
I also have a copy of the textbook that introduced Minix, which in a sense was the prototype for Linux. The second half of the book is the source code listing for the OS so I think you can count that as a "distribution".
The code was written for PCs in real mode in 1987. I bought the book at a used bookstore. I don't remember when, but it is a real treasure.
Xenix was a derivative of AT&T and BSD Unix code; I worked with it in 1983, before Linux was a twinkle in Linus's eye (nope, don't have media from then).
Remember these? I had a Xenix book too (with the plastic spiral binding), but it has seemingly disappeared. Anyway, none of these were "Linux" but it is interesting to stop for a moment to remember the prenatal days of the Internet revolution.
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