You made me curious. I started w/ openBSD 1.2 in '95. I can't find it anywhere though to see what size it was.

There were some Linux distros in decades past designed to run off of a couple floppies. I struggle to recall any names at the moment.

The classic one was "tomsrtbt" (http://www.toms.net/rb/).

His homepage just brought me SO much nostalgia. Just needs spinning skulls and construction gifs. http://www.toms.net/

And dang he owns toms.net, nice.

His resume on here hasn't been updated since 2002. Looks like he started his career in 1987. This is an interesting looking resume. Tons of skills at the top, goals, Other. I suppose it's cover-lettery.

edit: Oh, nevermind, he has a career page updated in 2019 - http://www.toms.net/career/ - so I guess he's been with Fannie Mae from 2002 - now. Good, I was a bit worried he'd left us.

In 2005 I worked for a small radio shop. Firewall was running Coyote Linux, which booted off a single 3.5" floppy with write protect switched on.