From: Matt Rudge <mrudge@ubuntu.com>
To: Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:20:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAErawUPB8dsHhNFFFoeu0ySiAKtNQE9=C3t8QtSnrz4vRyKVLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56623FD9-B886-46C2-A32D-6B4B2AC20F3E@alchemistowl.org>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 10:55, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo@alchemistowl.org>
wrote:
>
> On 15 Oct 2019, at 06:27, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> > Clearly you weren't installing Interactive UNIX/386 from floppy, like
> > my first experience. It was like pulling teeth.
>
> Not to mention Xenix/286… the never ending 5”1/4 “HD” floppies… the ones
which somehow were almost readable but not quite… then you started the
install again and a different floppy failed.
>
I can remember having to reinstall Xenix on a Wang PC-002. The floppy disks
had been kept in a folder next to a radiator, and I had to clean the floppy
drive with compressed air before we could start. Surprisingly the reinstall
went smoothly, but very slowly! The real issue was getting the serial
terminal board working again!
Matt
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-15 0:28 [TUHS] What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment? Pat Barron
2019-10-15 1:19 ` Andrew Warkentin
2019-10-15 4:06 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-15 4:27 ` [TUHS] Simple Unix install? (was: What was your "Aha, Unix!" moment?) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2019-10-15 9:03 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-10-16 3:20 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-16 8:20 ` Matt Rudge [this message]
2019-10-16 3:50 Pat Barron
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