[olug] "I remember when..."

Sat May 2 17:59:06 UTC 2009

This brings back memories to me I use to be a Sysop in Hastings 
Nebraska.  I still have Wildcat! 4.10 for DOS here somewhere :)  I hear 
Syncronet is the cats meow now though when it comes to internet based 
boards.  Citadel would be ok but for what? ANOHTER place for us to post 
messages?  I would be pro getting come old door games up and running 
like LORD, Tradewars ..etc :)

T. J. Brumfield wrote:
> Again I want to throw out there and ask, is there any interest in all
> this nostalgia perhaps to put together an olug-community-run Linux
> based telnet BBS?
>
> Synchronet (www.synchro.net) runs great on Linux and is free.
>
> -- T. J.
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Todd Wittenmeier <magitoddw at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I had an Old Epson XT when I was very young and don't remember a ton about
>> it, except that it ran PFS First Choice on top of DOS and my father paid I
>> think $6 a month to get us onto the General Electric GEnie BBS..  2.4kbps
>> and 64k (I'm a little fuzzy on that) was all I needed.
>>
>>
>> I don't think they could pry me off of of it until i was a Teenager.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> aha, It was the compaq... from 1982, I didn't have the thing until 95 or
>>> 96....
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sounds like a Osborne or Compaq luggable?
>>>> http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
>>>> http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Jordan Fox
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:43 PM
>>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>>> Subject: Re: [olug] "I remember when..."
>>>>
>>>> Apple ][e at school and ][gs at home - we had two floppy drives, 5 1/4
>>>>         
>>> and
>>>       
>>>> 3
>>>> 1/2!  Then moved to the 486 and then pentium with win95 16mb RAM and
>>>>         
>>> 1.6GB
>>>       
>>>> HDD.  Neither was much to talk about at the time because they were hand
>>>>         
>>> me
>>>       
>>>> downs from my dad's business and were already several years old when we
>>>>         
>>> got
>>>       
>>>> them.  First programming language was logo ;)  I, humbly, can't remember
>>>> what "my" first computer was... it was one of the original "portable"
>>>> computers.  It was about the size of a desktop.  My dad found it
>>>>         
>>> somewhere
>>>       
>>>> from one of his friends and I asked for it.  Monochrome green crt, the
>>>> keyboard snapped onto the front to cover the crt, had two floppies, I'm
>>>>         
>>> not
>>>       
>>>> sure what OS.  I never really did much with it because it was probably 10
>>>> years old, we already had the pentium, and I didn't know what OS it had
>>>>         
>>> and
>>>       
>>>> was too busy at the time to learn much about it.  In 1999, I got a dell
>>>> laptop: pII 366, with 192MB RAM and 14 GB HDD for college- awesome.  And
>>>>         
>>> it
>>>       
>>>> only cost 3 grand from the refurbished site!
>>>>
>>>> Jordan
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:15, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org>
>>>>>>             
>>>> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>>>> I'm in the younger crowd I guess.  First computer was a clunky green
>>>>>>>               
>>>>> Acer
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Aspire with Win 95.  They had an "even friendlier" interface that
>>>>>>>               
>>> sat
>>>       
>>>> on
>>>>         
>>>>>>> top
>>>>>>> of the win 95 desktop and sloooowed everything down. I didn't love
>>>>>>>               
>>> it
>>>       
>>>>> so, I
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> don't really remember it :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - John Hobbs
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> You mean "MS-Bob"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> No, Bob was the 3.1 days, IIRC.  I think what he's talking to was
>>>>> Acer's "custom" UI for Windows back around 95-96.  My gf, now wife,
>>>>> bought one and it SUCKED.  OMG it was horrible.
>>>>>
>>>>> My first computer that I worked with was an IBM PC, then the XT, PC
>>>>> jr, then the PC "portable."  My Mom quit the job where they had those,
>>>>> and bought a Panasonic Sr. Partner because it had a 20 MB HD and the
>>>>> PC's were only 10 at the time.  That old tank lasted me a good 8-9
>>>>> years.  I think it got "borrowed" from my Mom and never returned.  Ah
>>>>> well, it probably still works for someone.  Those old TTL chips were
>>>>> nothing if not sturdy.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.vintage-computer.com/panasonicsr.shtml
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
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>>>>
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>>>> petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace
>>>> of
>>>> God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
>>>> in
>>>> Christ Jesus."  Phil 4:6-7
>>>>
>>>> "The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
>>>> between your knees and the floor."  Anonymous
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>>> "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
>>> petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace
>>> of
>>> God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
>>> in
>>> Christ Jesus."  Phil 4:6-7
>>>
>>> "The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
>>> between your knees and the floor."  Anonymous
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>> -Todd
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