On 05/31/2010 05:57 PM, Bob Ackley -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 BA>>> The C: drive in Bob's Boneyard BBS cr*pped out last Sunday morning.
 BA>>> The box was a 486/66 with a whopping 16MB of RAM in it. The 'new'
 BA>>> box is a Compaq Deskpro (PIII, 650Mhz, 256MB of RAM) that I rescued
 BA>>> from a local junk yard. The only thing wrong with it was the power
 BA>>> button on the front, but the former owner just threw it away rather
 BA>>> than fix it; I replaced that button with one I'd salvaged from an
 BA>>> old Gateway box and it came right up. Took all of 30 minutes to
 BA>>> figure out what was wrong with it and another hour to dig out and
 BA>>> install the replacement part (it's a big pile of 'parts'), cost
 BA>>> $0.00. The 'new' box is just a teensy bit faster than the old one...
 BA>>> 

 EH>> Welcome back. Don't get a bloody nose from all that speed. :-)

 BA> The point was that I do 'dumpster diving' for computers and parts - and
 BA> have
 BA> done it for years. 'course, there's notoby here to tell me to get rid of
 BA> all my
 BA> 'stuff.' In any case, the system still has 'issues' .

There is nothing wrong with dumpster diving for computer parts. I've found
working systems people have tossed. I have turned around and given and/or
sold (mostly given) those to people that had nothing.

 BA> Same version of OS, same software (except for Binkley, the new box uses a
 BA> different vwsion) and the scripts don't all work the same way - go figure.
 BA> Among other discoveies is the fact that Binkley wants its *.?LO files in
 BA> the outgoing directory, not in a separate fidonet.zone directory. I
 BA> still don't
 BA> know if the script that loads the BBS works and have no way to test it.

They do that to keep you on your toes. :-)

Ed

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