[olug] "I remember when..."

[T. J. Brumfield]

Yeah, yeah!  Well, Babbage got his first prototype from me!  (I kid,
but I'm always worried that these discussions will lead to a pissing
content of geek cred.)

We have a C64 family computer when I was a kid, but my first computer
of my own was a 286 TURBO AT model.  I believe the turbo button jumped
the computer up to a lightning fast 6 megahertz.  I had a 1200 baud
modem that I adored.

All this discussion of community projects (like the colocation
project) and old-school geeks here has got me thinking we should
perhaps consider putting together a Synchronet BBS on a Linux box.  I
don't know if anyone here still has licenses for old door games, but
some of them have gone freeware, and some of us might be willing to
chip in a few bucks to buy licenses for the few that aren't freeware.

I do miss the BBS days.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, adunlop <techworld.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no idea of the model (I was 6 or so) but I first had some
> generic console (literally, it was about 1.5' tall, and 2' wide) that
> my parents picked up from some insurance company.  It didn't have disk
> drives so you had to build everything every time it was powered on.  I
> remember the upgrade to the Apple IIe and TRS-80 machines fondly.
> Amazing the innovation of disk drives :)
>
> Aaron
>
> On Apr 24, 2009, at 10:19 AM, James Ringler wrote:
>
>> I have a  Macintosh 512k Enhanced computer and an ImageWriter II
>> printer
>eek > both in the boxes in my office..   our parts guy had them in his
>> basement..
>> and dumped them on me..
>>
>> When people complain that their pc is slow, I threaten them with Big
>> Mac.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>> David Walker
>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:15 AM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: Re: [olug] "I remember when..."
>>
>> I had the Commodore Vic 20 at school and ended up with a Commodore 128
>> at home.   Later I had Amiga 500, 600, and 3000.  I do miss them but
>> not
>> enough to fire up UAE.