Re: Heresy! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19783564 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:50:16 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:50:16 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19798598 xyar : Uh, whoah!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19798598 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:47:49 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19793669 SuperJoker :
said by xyar See Profile :

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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(25.92GHz crunching for SETI with the PC Perspective Killer Frogs)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19793669 Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:10:46 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19786146 thederf : 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 ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19786146 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:03:57 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19786097 pabster : HSLink, that's it. Thanks MattE :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19786097 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:39:37 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785989 Matt :
said by pabster See Profile :

Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...

Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.

Anyone remember RIP? :D
HS-Link. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785989 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:31:11 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785297 AnonProxy :
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785297 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:44:30 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785232 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 squeeling sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("mom, hang up the phone!!!!!")]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19785232 Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:30:22 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784838 Jeffrey : 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". :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784838 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:56:17 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784829 pabster : Rusty 'n Edy :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784829 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:54:39 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784808 pabster : Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...

Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.

Anyone remember RIP? :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784808 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:51:51 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784795 pabster : 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. :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784795 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:50:11 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784422 John Galt : 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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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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»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_%28protocol%29]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784238 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:08:57 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784237 Jeffrey :
said by gaforces See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784237 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:08:55 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784229 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784229 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:06:55 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784226 flyingjoey : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784226 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:06:11 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784204 Jeffrey :
said by gaforces See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784204 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:00:11 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784197 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 :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19784197 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:58:53 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783837 djrobx :
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WWIV or nothing.

Totally. I'm WWIVNet node 8852.

- Phantom Lord 1@8852 (WWIVNet)
Fade To Black BBS (1990-1997)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783837 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:02:00 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783670 Jeffrey :
said by backness See Profile :

I always like the TAG BBS the best
I'm not sure I remember that one. I'd have to see some screen shots or something.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783670 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:31:29 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783631 backness : I always like the TAG BBS the best]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783631 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:26:20 EDT Re: Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783564 Jeffrey :
said by pnh102 See Profile :

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We're disconnecting our surfboard for the weekend and playing trade wars 2000 via our 300 baud Hayes Compatible and Apple IIgs on a Wildcat! BBS.


WWIV or nothing.
Ah, the Wildcat! BBS. Between that and PCBoard, that's all of the BBS software I remember from back in the day.
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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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783564 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:17:32 EDT Heresy! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19783549 pnh102 :
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We're disconnecting our surfboard for the weekend and playing trade wars 2000 via our 300 baud Hayes Compatible and Apple IIgs on a Wildcat! BBS.

WWIV or nothing.
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