Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My IBM PS/2 Model 30 (286 is all I remember) was about $3,000 in September
> 1987.

I also bought a PS/2 (perhaps model 40?) in June 1991.  It was 10mhz, had a
30MB HD and I believe it had 2MB of RAM ( I remember in 1994 I was
considering purchasing an additional 4MB for about $200).  I ran a BBS off
of it from my dorm room and since our network was connected to the internet
the BBS had visitors from as far away as Australia (I was at Virginia Tech).
Of course they could only connect one user at a time, but back then that was
extremely cool; today it's taken foregranted.  To free disk space I also
removed as much of DOS as possible, deleted Word whenever I needed to run my
CAD program and vice versa, ran files using a compression utility which I
believe was called Stacker and kept a floppy in the drive that contained
games and other files users downloaded - that was annoying b/c I could hear
the drive clicking as I tried to sleep, but it was balanced out by the
pleasure that someone somewhere else was downloading a file off my pathetic
pc.  Ah, those were the days.

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