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minus-squarecomador @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoSimilarly, I ordered floppies for Slackware from Walmut Creek. Spent weeks screaming at my system for not being able to get a 256k Tulip VLB ISA video card to init into X before I found my first Linux BBS on I think DalNET… times were… different.
minus-squareBluewing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 hours agoBut the sheer joy you felt when finally you got it to work made you really feel like you were a real haxzor. I do not miss that.
Similarly, I ordered floppies for Slackware from Walmut Creek. Spent weeks screaming at my system for not being able to get a 256k Tulip VLB ISA video card to init into X before I found my first Linux BBS on I think DalNET… times were… different.
But the sheer joy you felt when finally you got it to work made you really feel like you were a real haxzor.
I do not miss that.