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Sarah_Jayne

05-21-2009 04:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zorgman (Post 15874637)

What was that email type system in the BBS's. FIDO or something right?

I still have real life friends that I originally met on Fidonet.

Fletch XXX

05-21-2009 04:26 AM

"logging on" to the internet

rowan

05-21-2009 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zorgman (Post 15874637)

What was that email type system in the BBS's. FIDO or something right?

Fight-o-net (Fidonet) is still around, although it's pretty small compared to its hey day. Many nodes use TCP/IP to transfer mail packets now.

rowan

05-21-2009 04:41 AM

I remember reading about a project in BYTE in the early-mid 80s where you could make a camera from memory chips that had a metal lid rather than being encapsulated in a monolithic plastic case. With a clear lid the dynamic RAM matrix became light sensitive and could be read out as grey levels. The whole thing was fiddly and required a LOT of circuitry for interfacing.

Now you just buy a $10 webcam and plug it into your USB port...

SilentKnight

05-21-2009 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash (Post 15874651)

I still have real life friends that I originally met on Fidonet.

Same here.

And if memory serves, we used BlueWave as a mail packet reader.

efp	05-21-2009 05:22 AM

basic, pascal command line programs.
.com extension executables!

optimizing autoexec.bat and config.sys to free up some RAM to run "newer" games.

feeling that 128 mb is A FREAKING LOT of diskspace!

considering it a big jump in capacity to change from 5.25" disks to 3 1/4"

the good old times :1orglaugh

Raf1	05-21-2009 06:02 AM

I remember using my apple macintosh where you had one floppy with the system and the other with the application you wanted to use. That was in the early 80's I think

buyandsell

05-21-2009 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Nautilus (Post 15872259)

Editing autoexec.bat

batch files in general

damn they were usefull
I actually used a batch file to process folders of content for my first adult sites!

MaDalton

05-21-2009 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilentKnight (Post 15872456)

Designing ansi graphics for BBSes.

Telix for DOS (then later came Procomm for Windows).

My first copy of Nutscrape Navigator came on four 3.5 floppies (which took an hour to install on a PC-XT with 640k ram and a whopping 20mB harddrive.

Anyone remember the 'Turbo' button on the front of the PCs?

I still remember payin' $300 for an HP Colorado Travan tape drive back in the early 90s (which I later sold at a garage sale for $20 bucks, hehe).

My first USRobotics 14.4 modem card was longer than the motherboard itself.

we bought a double speed CD Burner for the music studio i was working at that time (early 90ties). it had the size of a 19" 2 HE server and cost 5000 german marks at that time which is nowadays about $3500 USD

TrainWreckContent

05-21-2009 07:55 AM

anybody remamber zip drives from the 90's? I think the first ones cost around $200 and held 100mb

HELMY

05-21-2009 08:16 AM

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...1530-c2n_1.jpg

having to wait 20-30 minutes to load a video game using the Commodore cassette player.....................................

LOL :1orglaugh

pimpware

05-21-2009 08:21 AM

MaDalton

05-21-2009 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by riggo (Post 15875301)

anybody remamber zip drives from the 90's? I think the first ones cost around $200 and held 100mb

yeah, and completely unreliable. every third cartridge lost its data after a couple of weeks

Sebastian Sands

05-21-2009 09:43 AM

CompuServe, Paltalk.. those were good days

AdultSoftwareSolutions

05-21-2009 09:49 AM

Before you could double click to launch a program there was

LOAD "MYPROG", 8
SYS 49152

Tom_PM

05-21-2009 09:56 AM

I still have my version of Telix all loaded on my XT. Ready to log on to the past, lol.

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