HPR0647: How I Got Into Linux

Linux-specific content starts at the 15min mark. Until then is all the computer geekery that led up to my first linux exposure. Feel free to skip forward if you don't want to hear about old systems like the Commodores, TI, 5.25" floppies, FidoNet BBS, etc.

URLs referenced in this episode

• FidoNet
  https://www.fidonet.org/
• Apple data stored on audio cassette tape at 1200 baud:
  https://www.pagetable.com/?p=31
• Xubuntu (w/xcfe lighter desktop environment):
  https://www.xubuntu.org/
• fluxbox lightweight window manager:
  https://www.fluxbox.org
• Puppy linux:
  https://www.puppylinux.com/
• Tiny Core - brutally small, not for beginners::
  https://www.tinycorelinux.com/
• antiX, a light distro:
  https://antix.mepis.org/
• Linux on Eee or under virtualbox:
  https://muedemaus.blogspot.com/search/label/linux

Clarifications and corrections:

The Apple ][e setup I describe was almost exactly $2000.

I still own the TI 99/4A and BASIC manual; I cranked it up a few years ago. The thing that sticks out is how terrible the keyboard is -- it's almost unusable but seemed fine at the time..

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