Hi,
So today is
April 1st! No fool here.
Interview with Patrick Volkerding: April 1st, 1994 by Phil Hughes
That may days ago! I've read the interview again today.
Thanks to
Slackware 1.0 Released. Even though
Interview with Patrick Volkerding is in
SlackwareŽ-Links I had not re-read it in a while.
Started thoughts down memory lane again. I know what was going on at the time in 1994. Sitting in the Lab looking at a screen and thinking OMG. Immediately starting a download session. At the time the University network was the way to get things fast over a T1. Burning that many floppies was another story and a long one at that. At the time floppies were a big pain in the a$$. Good floppy media was not cheap for 1.44MB.
Once the disk sets were created then the fun began by feeding that IBM clone machine's floppy drive to get to a console. Was that ever fun.
Actually after the install not everything was good to go. Big learning curve to find my way around the install. But worth it!
Now I had a UNIX like, well at least at the time it was a big thing not to pay a License fee. Sure, education(Lab) provided a UNIX for my machines but personally I had a UNIX-like at home for the cost of floppies and download time at the LAB. 3b1/3b2 from AT&T were abundant because of grants. Even had a 3b2 at home for a while, I was first in the area to get broadband locally back then at home. Even though speed was no where near what I've got today. It was better than dial-up.
Seventeen years latter I'm sitting at home in my lazyboy writing on a Slackware -current based laptop via wireless about a sample of what was going on then. Things are a changin! At least a change that I can live with. Where's that new release? 13.37 is change to the good life!
Happy Saint Fools day! Still working off that beer from back in March/011.
