xyar
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join:2001-06-21
Portland, OR | reply to SuperJoker
Re: Heresy!
Uh, whoah! |
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SuperJoker
join:2005-11-21
Yermo, CA
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said by xyar  :Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!! Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squealing sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("Mom, hang up the phone!!!!!") So Your Mom did that too? I'd tell Her I'm on the phone and She'd not connect the noise and Me, Boy was she dumb as She'd do It from time to time thinking She could call somebody, Explaining a computer download to Her would have been waste of time and yep I'd thought about It too, Her idea of the phones use was for the phone only to be used for talking by voice and nothing else, So why bother trying to educate Her. She would today object to Me using a Dishwasher to clean a heatsink of dust and dirt, Of course I pre-clean the heatsink of any heatsink compound including Arctic Silver as I don't want that stuff in the dishwasher at all, Of course the heatsink was in the upper rack and the dishwasher was set on Normal with both soap dishes filled, It came out warm, steamy, wet and most importantly nice and Shiny Clean of any swamp cooler deposited crud(crud=moisture+dust) that normal cleaning would not touch, The Vigor Monsoon II heatsink and fan shroud had to separated so that both would come clean, But It was easy to do, Of course the fan had to go in the wash too(hardwired), the fan looks fine afterwards and is dry now, This Tuesday I'll install It after removing the old one and the motherboard, The Ultra ChillTEC that I have(in another PC) will not require this extreme removal step of course just to install a clean heatsink and I may get another one or two in the future.
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thederf
join:2007-05-20
Scranton, PA | reply to pabster
TriBBS, Wildcat....good memories. now I remember why I never went out any-ware. But it was still a good social life, No freaks to worry about online |
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA | reply to Matt
HSLink, that's it. Thanks MattE  |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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Jamestown, NC
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said by pabster :Damn what was that bi-directional protocol... Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK. Anyone remember RIP? HS-Link.  |
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AnonProxy
Proxy of Anon
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join:2001-05-12
ß | reply to flyingjoey
The War Board Highland Park NJ
Sporting 4 USR Courier HST Dual Standard Modems
No Ratios!
Adult Section
0 Day Warez bitches!
Members Only Section
Trade Wars
FidoNet Relay |
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xyar
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join:2001-06-21
Portland, OR
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Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!!
Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squeeling sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("mom, hang up the phone!!!!!") |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
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I remember Zmodem being one of the best things I ever used - at the time. So much better than Ymodem and tons better than Xmodem.
I'm really stretching deep down, back into the depths of my brain to remember all this shit I used to download porn with. Kids have it so easy these days with "the web". |
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA | reply to John Galt
Rusty 'n Edy |
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA | reply to Jeffrey
Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...
Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.
Anyone remember RIP? |
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA
·Mediacom
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Doesn't anyone remember TriBBS?
Man Wildcat! really brings back the memories. I used to be SysOp of a 4-line board locally here back in the day.
Oh, and WWIV sucked. God I hated that software. PCBoard too. |
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John Galt
Forward, March
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join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
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For all you pr0n hounds out there, here is a bit of nostalgia...
I happened to meet someone during the normal course-of-business and then one day I saw this:
»www.totse.com/en/law/high_profil···ust.html
»www.loundy.com/CDLB/AABBS.html
»venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/rim···proposal
HAHA! Big tits at 300 baud. How long does it take to D/L a pair of 42DD's at 300 baud...??
Turns out that this person and his wife were the operators of the "Amateur Action BBS"...one of the first pr0n BBS's on the Internet. Well, it wasn't even the Internets at that time.
Ah, the nostalgia of the look backwards. We were SO very much simpler then...
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roc5955
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join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY
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What, you have a hard wired modem?!?!
Not a 75 baud telephone coupler.
I have an old US Robotics 1200 bps modem at "Ye Olde Computer Museum" in my cube at work. I also have a colorful bunch of punchcards (never used). An 8" hard drive from one of our old mini computers. A 5 1/4' good ol' Seagate ST-251 drive. A couple of assorted ISA, EISA, VESA Local Bus cards, an old Hayes 2400 bps modem, and a newer USR 28.8. I have floppy drives and diskettes of the 8", 5.25" and 3.5" variety. There is a copy of OS/2 Warp, DOS 5.0, DOS 3.1, and Windows 3.0 all in their own original shrinkwrap! There's even a slide rule and an abacus, both fully functional! Sometimes people come to stop and stare.
When I start to think about all the stuff I used to mess with, I come to the realization that I have probably forgotten more than some of our younger techs and programmers know!
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to flyingjoey
"If your toaster has a microchip in it, someone somewhere has probably ported Kermit to it".
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_%28protocol%29 |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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said by gaforces :Yep, Kermit, ZModem, YModem, and XModem. Everything was text directories, when picture's came it was a BIG deal. I think I used Mosaic back then. Haha yep thats it. 20+ years ago. Crazy I even knew what the hell I was doing back then. Parents got me a 2400 baud modem with Prodigy and I somehow wound up on BBR 20 years later. Go figure.
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And so castles made of sand, slip into the sea, eventually.
I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to Jeffrey
Yep, Kermit, ZModem, YModem, and XModem.
Everything was text directories, when picture's came it was a BIG deal. I think I used Mosaic back then. |
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flyingjoey
join:2005-11-07
Jersey City, NJ | reply to Jeffrey
cool... hey if you're going to fire up your BBS, do you have anything to download... I'm just dying to go back to download files using Kermit.
But if you can't support Kermit I'll use ZMODEM, YMODEM, or even XMODEM. |
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Jeffrey
too dark too early
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Dix Hills,NY
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said by gaforces :I used procomm for home BBS, and I was a member of Angst BBS. Angst was the first BBS to hook me up to the newly born internet Remember all those transmit protocols or whatever they were? Kermit, Z-something, C-something. Man it's been a while.
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And so castles made of sand, slip into the sea, eventually.
I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. |
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to Jeffrey
I used procomm for home BBS, and I was a member of Angst BBS.
Angst was the first BBS to hook me up to the newly born internet |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
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quote:
WWIV or nothing.
Totally. I'm WWIVNet node 8852.
- Phantom Lord 1@8852 (WWIVNet)
Fade To Black BBS (1990-1997) |
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