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  • Re: New BBS User!

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Jimmy Anderson on Sun May 11 22:23:13 2025
    Re: Re: New BBS User!
    By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 11 2025 08:12 pm


    Nice! :-)

    I liked building my own so I could repair/replace or even upgrade stuff
    as needed.



    i'm past that. i dont even want to open up my case to add new harddrives.
    i use a drobo clone.

    when my next computer is bought it will be one of those little baby ones and i'll jack everything in via usb. the days of the big cases with the water cooling,etc are gone.
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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Mon May 12 19:47:13 2025
    In 1994 after reading Computer Shopper Magazine and reading about VESA BUS I told the builder of my 486DX33 to get a Orchid Faherinheidt(sp?)
    VESA Video Board for it and a BIG 330MB HDD.
    (Back then ads for computers had 120 or 220MB HDD's).
    Ed
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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to Mortar on Tue May 13 04:46:28 2025
    Re: DIYPC
    By: Mortar to Jimmy Anderson on Sat May 10 2025 11:37 pm

    You never forget your first build.

    I did...

    however I guess my "first build" was not really a build but rather a modification to my original IBM PC in 1985. I replaced the 8088 CPU with a NEC v20 and replaced one of the full height floppies with a 10mb hard disk and added an AST card to expand the memory to a whopping 640k. What a beast...

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ed Vance on Tue May 13 18:34:50 2025
    Re: Re: New BBS User!
    By: Ed Vance to MRO on Mon May 12 2025 07:47 pm

    In 1994 after reading Computer Shopper Magazine and reading about VESA BUS I told the builder of my 486DX33 to get a Orchid Faherinheidt(sp?)
    VESA Video Board for it and a BIG 330MB HDD.
    (Back then ads for computers had 120 or 220MB HDD's).
    Ed

    i have no idea why you are telling me this.
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  • From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Wed May 14 08:20:00 2025
    Re: Re: New BBS User!
    By: Ed Vance to MRO on Mon May 12 2025 07:47 pm

    i have no idea why you are telling me this.
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    Again I failed to Quote the post in my Reply to You.

    I was writing about what you told Jimmy Anderson about your preference for a new computer would be a tiny one and not being water cooled .
    The 486 I was writing about is the only one that I had someone build for me. The other pcs I got were Factory Made.

    Ed
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  • From Misfit@VERT/EMERALD to Jimmy Anderson on Sat May 17 16:45:14 2025
    Re: Re: New BBS User!
    By: Jimmy Anderson to Misfit on Fri May 09 2025 10:22 am

    My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had

    Nice to run into another old school CoConut all these years later. :-)
    Yeah, I started with a CoCo2 likewise, then by the time I was at the apogee of my coco days I was running a 512K CoCo3, OS9 Level II, and MultiVue. My dream was to add a HDD, but only the super rich could afford them in those days, lol.
    So, I just made do with 5.25" swappping. Still, it was pretty cool running a true multi-tasking, windowing, RTOS, on just an 8bit computer! :-)

    Cheers!


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  • From jimmylogan@VERT/DIGDIST to Misfit on Sat May 17 20:08:54 2025
    Misfit wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

    My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had

    Nice to run into another old school CoConut all these years later. :-)

    LOL - haven't heard or thought of that in a LONG time! :-)

    Yeah, I started with a CoCo2 likewise, then by the time I was at the apogee of my coco days I was running a 512K CoCo3, OS9 Level II, and MultiVue. My dream was to add a HDD, but only the super rich could
    afford them in those days, lol.

    Oh wow! Yeah, you did more than me. :-)

    So, I just made do with 5.25" swappping. Still, it was pretty cool running a true multi-tasking, windowing, RTOS, on just an 8bit
    computer! :-)

    I wasn't multitasking or windowing. :-) The FDD was basically, for me,
    a faster cassette. LOL



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