Quadratic.net history

Pre history

I've had a *nix machine to call my own for a long time.

It started with my parent's cast-off 386 that I swear had a crack in the motherboard. I painstainkingly installed slack via floppy. This was the year I returned from university. 1995 maybe?

At university I had the 386, but it had windows 3.1 on it, and I didn't use it much at all, not network connection, I think I had tried to get FreeBSD running on it, but failed miserably.

And besides I had the university computer labs I could use. They were way better. esp when the pentium 75 labs were opened.

So I returned to Toronto and had this 386, and had a job at UofT surveying the systems and network.

By day I would wander the halls of UofT and return to a cubby hole of a desk to swap floppies, so that by night , I could sit infront of _my own_ computer, and swap floppies.

I did eventually get it to ppp+ chap in