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Good old days. I remember trying to shoehorn Slackware onto an IBM PS/2 m55 with 2.9mb RAM. Unluckily for me, it was an MCA system with an ESDI disk, with the MCA support very experimental, and I ended using a parport ZIP100 to help with a minimal install. One day I got back from school and some dude from one of the Usenet groups called me on my land line asking for the steps.

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Argh, in college I had an old Microchannel IBM that I installed linux on. I could never get the (coax) ethernet working properly. Pretty sure I used a parallel port zip drive to install, too. Ah, the good old days of having seven computers in one tiny dorm room.

Nowadays if you said "this random stranger got in touch on the internet then fingered me" the response would be somewhat different.

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