[lug] For love or money: 1994 Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux CD
Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com
Wed Sep 17 17:37:45 MDT 2008
David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
>> A friend is very very interested in finding an installation CD or
>> .iso for the Yggdrasil Linux Release circa 1994.
>
> Well, shoot. My first Linux CDs were the Linux Internet Archives
> (4CDs!) from 1995. But no Yggdrasil. I remember considering Yggdrasil
> though.
You're giving me flashbacks to trying to download all that crap over a
modem line. Stop that! (GRIN)
(And it drove me to go figure out how to order BRI-ISDN to my condo,
which was a couple of months long story in and of itself... then early
SDSL -- CopperMountain CopperRocket "modem", I do remember that part --
from whoever that provider was that only did SDSL, then later we moved,
and I was in Qwest coverage for ADSL... and now Comcast on a commercial
account...)
12Mb down/2 Mb up sure beats the old modem.
During the ISDN days, it was 64Kb/s plus "bonding" if the Zyxel ISDN
device decided that I was filling the 64K pipe for more than a couple of
seconds...
Then it would bond the other 64K in, and if someone called on the phone,
the second B-channel would drop off and back to 64K... until the phone
call was over.
:-) Painful days. I remember buying various distro CD's online from
cheapbytes to avoid the hours of downloading later on, too...
Nate
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