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echo: classic_computer
to: JIMMY ANDERSON
from: MIKE POWELL
date: 2020-02-10 18:11:00
subject: Re: Hello!

> Very cool! My first BBS dialer was also an 8088 - monochrome monitor - dual
> floppy. Had a 14.4 in it and it was BLAZING fast! LOL But I had to slow it
> to 9600 to upload. ;-)

> I remember the fun of using DOS 3.3 to make a boot disk for downloading
> and another for uploading. :-)

Mine came with a 30MB HD... that seemed so large back then... but only had
a 2400 modem in it.  I eventually tried to upgrade the serial card so that
it would support a 14.4k external but that never really worked.

It also came with DOS 3.3.  :)


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