▲ 7 ▼ To celebrate Slackware turning 30, I put on my 13.37 release t-shirt! (lemmy.ca) submitted 3 years ago by troyunrau@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments Anyone old enough to remember using v1.0?
[–] _thebrain_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) I installed 1.0... all 23 discs that I downloaded at 2400bps because I couldn't afford a faster modem. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Does the math. 24 disks, 1.44 MB each. 34.5 MB total. That's 34,500,000 bytes. 2400 bps is actually 300 bytes per second, assuming no bits wasted on error correction or something. So 115k seconds. Or about 32 hours. Assuming no errors, blips, kids pickup up the phone, etc. Probably at least three days if you can only use your modem during off-peak hours like most of us dial up users of the era. Do you remember it fondly? Or do you shudder in pain? ;) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] morain@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Before CD distros? Ma Bell loved us lots ... or at least our wallets. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca [S] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children) Does the math. 24 disks, 1.44 MB each. 34.5 MB total. That's 34,500,000 bytes. 2400 bps is actually 300 bytes per second, assuming no bits wasted on error correction or something. So 115k seconds. Or about 32 hours. Assuming no errors, blips, kids pickup up the phone, etc. Probably at least three days if you can only use your modem during off-peak hours like most of us dial up users of the era. Do you remember it fondly? Or do you shudder in pain? ;) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] morain@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Before CD distros? Ma Bell loved us lots ... or at least our wallets. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] morain@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago Before CD distros? Ma Bell loved us lots ... or at least our wallets. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LucyLastic@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks. permalink fedilink source parent