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  • Re: New BBS User!

    From Ed Vance@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MRO on Monday, May 12, 2025 19:47:13
    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 Tuesday, May 13, 2025 04:46:28
    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 Tuesday, May 13, 2025 18:34:50
    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 Wednesday, May 14, 2025 08:20:00
    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 Saturday, May 17, 2025 16:45:14
    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 Saturday, May 17, 2025 20:08:54
    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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