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echo: classic_computer
to: MIKE POWELL
from: JIMMY ANDERSON
date: 2020-02-13 00:05:00
subject: Re: Hello!

-=> Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 > 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. :-)

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

 MP> It also came with DOS 3.3.  :)

Mine was a hand me down from my sister. Didn't have a modem at all until
I put in that 14.4 - and it was an INTERNAL! :-)




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