Re: Re: Test msg from new BBS
By: Buckaroo Banzai to echto on Thu May 10 2012 21:37:42

Actually it was one modem per system. And yes, 386DX 66 systems all with 1 MB of memory and 20MB HD's.

Man those were the days. We used to turn the lights off in the server room and watch the light show.... better than christmas lights!!!

No kidding! So cool! I bet you could sit in there in the dark, start drinking, and loose yourself in the sounds of all the harddrives and blinking lights. We as a race have definitely come a long way technologically speaking,
but man... fun is fun and back then it was! I remember holding my brand new zoom v.32bis modem like a baby kitten when I received it in the mail.

As you said, those were the days. =)




echto

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Re: Re: Test msg from new BBS
By: echto to Buckaroo Banzai on Sat May 12 2012 08:36 pm

No kidding! So cool! I bet you could sit in there in the dark, start drinking, and loose yourself in the sounds of all the harddrives and blinkin lights. We as a race have definitely come a long way technologically speaki but man... fun is fun and back then it was! I remember holding my brand new zoom v.32bis modem like a baby kitten when I received it in the mail.

I started the BBS on a 286 with a 2400 baud modem. I lived in a studio and turned the walk-in closet into a BBS nook. When I kept the closet door open, I could hear the PC fan, and it lulled me to sleep. The chattering of the hard drive would wake me up when the BBS tossed Fido mail during ZMH, and know I'd have echomail waiting for me when I woke up.

When the BBS got popular, I'd wake up to find people halfway around thr world reading messages on the BBS. Good times.

.: poindexter fortran :: pf at realitycheckbbs dot org :.

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Mark!!!! OMG, I remember you. See I told the wife that the memory
wasn't the
first thing to go! (grin)

It's good to hear from you again.

Split Infinity is online and cranking, don't be a stranger!

splitinfinity.wow64.net

That is really incredible that we both are back in the BBS world again. It has
been along time... I remember calling your BBS when I was in my teens (using Weatherman as my alias).

I'll drop by your system soon.

Good to hear from you again!

- Mark

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Actually it was one modem per system. And yes, 386DX 66 systems all with
1 MB
of memory and 20MB HD's.

Man those were the days. We used to turn the lights off in the server
room and
watch the light show.... better than christmas lights!!!

I used to watch all the lights on the BBS system / modems, too. In the really early stages of the BBS (when I was still running on an Apple //c), you could see the floppy drives light up all the time.

I remember drooling over the new external 3.5 drive that could store over one megabyte for my Apple! I added (2) of those which added much more storage for the xfer section!

These days, I considering building a new "cheap man's SAN" that will hold over 12 hard drives to increase my 15+TB of storage..

- Mark

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On 05-11-12, Buckaroo Banzai said...

"No matter where you go, there you are - BB"

Gryphon x Cyberia BBS x cyberia.darktech.org

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