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Yep I did the same (I worked at BHP the Aussie industrial multinational, and funnily ended up at DEC in '97 and still work there via HPE). Initially I was doing the regular downloads to a SGI workstation and writing the floppy images out on I think on a DOS PC. Eventually I was able to repurpose an unused 386 at work to become my Linux server at work.

For me the first one that sticks in my head is the MCC distrib on ~10 floppies, with (I think) a bunch more for X. Definitely used 0.9[89] before that (late '93) but no solid memory of details.

Kernel version 1.0.8 is burned into my brain though.

I also started with SLS, but got in a little later (late 92, maybe 93?) I think 0.99pl10 was where I started. I remember the 12 or 15 floppy images.