[olug] "I remember when..."

Tue Apr 28 20:10:01 UTC 2009

Again I want to throw out there and ask, is there any interest in all
this nostalgia perhaps to put together an olug-community-run Linux
based telnet BBS?

Synchronet (www.synchro.net) runs great on Linux and is free.

-- T. J.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Todd Wittenmeier <magitoddw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had an Old Epson XT when I was very young and don't remember a ton about
> it, except that it ran PFS First Choice on top of DOS and my father paid I
> think $6 a month to get us onto the General Electric GEnie BBS..  2.4kbps
> and 64k (I'm a little fuzzy on that) was all I needed.
>
>
> I don't think they could pry me off of of it until i was a Teenager.
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Jordan Fox <vmifox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> aha, It was the compaq... from 1982, I didn't have the thing until 95 or
>> 96....
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Sounds like a Osborne or Compaq luggable?
>> > http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html
>> > http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>> > Jordan Fox
>> > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 8:43 PM
>> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> > Subject: Re: [olug] "I remember when..."
>> >
>> > Apple ][e at school and ][gs at home - we had two floppy drives, 5 1/4
>> and
>> > 3
>> > 1/2!  Then moved to the 486 and then pentium with win95 16mb RAM and
>> 1.6GB
>> > HDD.  Neither was much to talk about at the time because they were hand
>> me
>> > downs from my dad's business and were already several years old when we
>> got
>> > them.  First programming language was logo ;)  I, humbly, can't remember
>> > what "my" first computer was... it was one of the original "portable"
>> > computers.  It was about the size of a desktop.  My dad found it
>> somewhere
>> > from one of his friends and I asked for it.  Monochrome green crt, the
>> > keyboard snapped onto the front to cover the crt, had two floppies, I'm
>> not
>> > sure what OS.  I never really did much with it because it was probably 10
>> > years old, we already had the pentium, and I didn't know what OS it had
>> and
>> > was too busy at the time to learn much about it.  In 1999, I got a dell
>> > laptop: pII 366, with 192MB RAM and 14 GB HDD for college- awesome.  And
>> it
>> > only cost 3 grand from the refurbished site!
>> >
>> > Jordan
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>> > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:15, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org>
>> > wrote:
>> > > >> I'm in the younger crowd I guess.  First computer was a clunky green
>> > > Acer
>> > > >> Aspire with Win 95.  They had an "even friendlier" interface that
>> sat
>> > on
>> > > >> top
>> > > >> of the win 95 desktop and sloooowed everything down. I didn't love
>> it
>> > > so, I
>> > > >> don't really remember it :-)
>> > > >>
>> > > >> - John Hobbs
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > You mean "MS-Bob"?
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > No, Bob was the 3.1 days, IIRC.  I think what he's talking to was
>> > > Acer's "custom" UI for Windows back around 95-96.  My gf, now wife,
>> > > bought one and it SUCKED.  OMG it was horrible.
>> > >
>> > > My first computer that I worked with was an IBM PC, then the XT, PC
>> > > jr, then the PC "portable."  My Mom quit the job where they had those,
>> > > and bought a Panasonic Sr. Partner because it had a 20 MB HD and the
>> > > PC's were only 10 at the time.  That old tank lasted me a good 8-9
>> > > years.  I think it got "borrowed" from my Mom and never returned.  Ah
>> > > well, it probably still works for someone.  Those old TTL chips were
>> > > nothing if not sturdy.
>> > >
>> > > http://www.vintage-computer.com/panasonicsr.shtml
>> > >
>> > > Bill
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>> >
>> >
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>> > of
>> > God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
>> > in
>> > Christ Jesus."  Phil 4:6-7
>> >
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>> > between your knees and the floor."  Anonymous
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>> "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
>> petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace
>> of
>> God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds
>> in
>> Christ Jesus."  Phil 4:6-7
>>
>> "The shortest distance between a problem and a solution is the distance
>> between your knees and the floor."  Anonymous
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