[olug] "I remember when..."

Tue Apr 28 20:20:10 UTC 2009

Count me in,

Chris from Kearney

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>> > in
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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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>> --
>> -Todd
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