-=> Quoting Dan Ceppa to Leonard Erickson <=-

 DC> On 14 Apr 04  01:28:08, Leonard Erickson got back to Dan Ceppa 
 -> Re: My BBS access
 
 BC> I'm still using a 486 DX2-50 with 20megs of RAM and a 2gig HD. 
 BC> MS-DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11, a 33.3k modem. 
 
 DC> And I thought I was using an antiquated system!  
 
 LE> Hey! 105/50 does dialup and UUCP on a 486DX2-66 with 64 meg of RAM,
 LE> and a 400 *meg* HD. DR-DOS 7.03

 DC> I used to use a 8088 with a 32mb HD, so there!  

Well, a 286XT (Tandy 1000/TL3) system was the "smallest" I ever ran
Fidonet on.
 
 LE> Then again, it keeps all the files on the Netware server which has
 LE> several gig of space. And the box I'm typing on (an OS/2 Warp 4 system
 LE> with an AMD K62-500, OS/2 Warp 4, and 40 gig of HD) is also doing all
 LE> the tossing & scanning.

 DC> I still like messing with the old systems, just because I have tons 
 DC> of archives on 5.5 floppies.  But, it's gotten to the point where 
 DC> never systems are cheaper to buy than it is to repair an older box.  

 DC> And, please, do remember:  It's not often that I get to pick on 
 DC> someone with older equipment than I have!     

Well, if you count *accessing* a bbs, I may have you beat. I logged
into one local BBS (back in 1980) using at TTY at 110 baud.

And as for "personal" gear, I logged into one using a TRS-80 Model I,
16k with a Radio Shack Modem I connected to the *cassette* port (yes,
they actually had it set up so you could do that).

And I did a lot of BBSing with a Tandy Model 100 notebook syste, 8085
CPU, 8, 1 24 or 32k of RAM. Which doubled as *storage*, so you only had
5 k free on an 8k system. :-)

It was great fun the first time I logged into a BBS after an ice storm
and casually mentioned that I was typing by candlelight, because the
power was out. :-)




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