Re: Re: First Computer That Ran Synchronet BBS
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Feb 05 2022 12:38 pm

 PF> I can't resist computers that clients offered me. I was given a little 
 PF> toaster-looking HP Pavilion, circa 2004. It was a couple of years old,
 PF> when all computers had to have CD cubbies and clear doors over the optical
 PF> drives and two-tone cases with wings, and proprietary speakers that hung
 PF> off of a monitor in a matching two-tone scheme. That thing had 512mb of
 PF> RAM, a 500 mhz celeron and ATA-33 drives. But, it ran the BBS perfectly
 PF> for the next 7 years.

PCs with proprietary parts always bugged me.  In early high school, I had a friend who had a Packard Bell computer (a popular model at the time), and the most obvious thing was its proprietary case.  It had a horizontal case, and one time we were looking inside it, and I saw it had a riser board for the expansion cards to be installed horizontally rather than vertically, and if I remember right, it also had an expansion card that was a modem and sound card in one.  I thought it was pretty weird.

Nightfox

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