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This also reminds me of a Softlanding Linux System (SLS) boot floppy disk set that was our gateway into Linux. It served the use case that people would use Live ISO images now. You booted a PC off floppy and used a single floppy for the root system image, and could use the typically available second floppy drive to save some user files. This let you preview Linux on a system without the leap to wipe and reformat the HDD.

Seeing multiple virtual consoles with login prompts on your first PC was a revelation if you had been amazed by the multi-user systems in school labs and assumed PCs were inherently single user.

Maybe Slackware could be used that way too, but I never tried. By the time we started downloading Slackware floppies, we planned to wipe a system and do an HDD based install to get all those extra packages that would never fit in a single floppy.