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

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] (OT) Posting to the list In General


> "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.
>
> --
> Steve Werby
> President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
> http://www.befriend.com/
>

Steve,

then you may remember some of these.

Wildcat
Litehouse
PCBoard
Telix
Trancer
etc...

I've still got an OLD archive from my BBS that has at least 10 differant BBS
solutions.  Man those were the days. hehe.

chuck