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

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Steve Werby wrote:

> 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).

Wow...I ran a bbs on a TRS80....it had 256k of ram AND 4 5 1/4 inch
floppies.  That was a quantum leap from the cassette tape drive.One day
one of my users brought me a large chunk of iron...it was a 5 Megabyte 
hard drive....so, I knew that some day someone would make
some off-handed remark about no one needing more than 640k of memory.

> CAD program and vice versa, ran files using a compression utility which I
> believe was called Stacker

Which had to cut your speed down by at least 50 percent(g).  I still have
my registration information for stacker...and it's installed on a 386-dx40
box that runs as a uucp gateway system (g).

So, there are a few of us Olde Pharts on the list.

thom
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