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New York, NY | TapCIS Anyone remember the old dos program TapCIS? It must have saved me a small fortune in Compuserve charges. | |
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 | | Re: TapCIS Yes - and a similar program from a guy in Iowa who's name escapes me right now. They were kind of clones of a Usenet reader program, tuned for Compuserve forums.
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join:2000-03-03
Pompton Lakes, NJ
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| There were a lot of these. I used to use Golden Compass a multi-threaded program written by Larry Finklestein of NW NJ for OS/2 and Byte Mag called it the application that would make you want to run OS/2 (since it was totally OO programming and totally multitasked with CIS's forums (you could visit multiples at the same time, review the threads while you were online and mark them for download). That was on my first real computer a Zeos wtih a DX-66 processor and 128mb ram, it was EISA. It was my third specialty program for CIS after my Apple IIe retired.....
CIS kept a 1200 half duplex connection/configuration available for me at the Montclair NJ access until the early 90's..... I was a member for 14 years when I retired my account....
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| Re: TapCIS My first x86 PC was a Zeos DX33. I didn't have EISA, but it did have a Vesa Local Bus for video, I think. The video was the Diamond Steath Pro that came with a whopping 4MB of VRAM.
I remember the talk of Golden Compass, but decided to stick to TapCIS, which, outside of games, was the only DOS program I ran in Windows.
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| Re: TapCIS Did the Diamond Stealth Pro really have 4mb of ram? I think I had to change mine to a ATI one for compatibility with some coms card - I ran multiple com lines into the box, and my test was to fax myself from the virtual Windows 3.1 using WinFax Pro to the 'real' OS/2 side with PMFax Pro. but I don't remember the name of the ATI card, I suppose I could go out to the garage and open up the box.... I won't toss the old boxes out..... and still have my original apple and the original chips -- when the IIe came out you could buy the chips to covert the II...
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| Re: TapCIS It's been a very long time. I bought that system in October 1990. It came with 2 MB RAM and a 130 MB HDD and Windows 3.0. I had just moved to Illinois from California after college. Wish I could find the old Zeos ad from Computer Shopper magazine. Bought a Zyxel (??) 2400 baud modem with that computer. I thought it came with a Diamond Stealth Video card. That first card probably only had 1 or 2 MB RAM. I ended up buying a Diamond Viper about 1 or 2 years later. It might have been the Viper that had 4 MB VRAM. When Windows 3.1 was released I upgraded to 8 MB RAM
Fun times. I moved to Europe in 1992 and bought a new Zeos (DX2-66). They were a great company. I stayed in Europe until 1995 and left the computer there with an old girlfriend.
I started working for a company in 2002 that used MicronPC (MPC) hardware, which was the company that bought Zeos back in the 90's. MPC folded this year.
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| adrmanPremium
join:2007-08-23
New York, NY | I forgot about GC. I used to dual boot OS/2 on a Gateway. GC was an excellent program as well.
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Deerfield Beach, FL | Huge user of TapCIS. Thanks for reminding me of those early days. | |
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| Yep, Loved TapCIS. I still have a floppy disk with it. I think there is still a TapCIS forum somewhere with a few of the old members.
That was back in 1991 when I found that godsend software. I moved to Europe that year and the phone charges were worse than back in Illinois.
Man, where have the years gone.
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Anyone remember the old dos program TapCIS? It must have saved me a small fortune in Compuserve charges
Let's not forget OZCIS and OZWIN.
Steve Sneed got divorced and dropped off the scene years ago. His ex apparently did not do well from what Gabe Kingsley told me.
Gabe died of cancer a little over 2 years ago.
I forget who took over OZWIN - he moved to NZ and finally put it to bed when AOL finally gutted all of the good parts of CIS.
Such a shame, CIS was a great place.
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