drama... I just had to get off. Now I'm only really on Discord on servers with people I know, lol. But Discord is going downhill, so who knows how long I'll stay on there (friends and I have joked about using Slack instead, lmao).
Do you mean 8 MB for the soundfont? As Windows 98 was a 32-bit OS, it would have only been able to handle 4GB (and Google says it actually only supported up to 1GB of RAM).Ah, yeah. I meant that, lol. Sorry
Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-
Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into a working PC... Did it
for family when they needed a new computer. Save them some money; I learned a lot. :-)
Before the days of the $100 HP/Compaq that is...
Foriest Jan Smith wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Yeah. It was the whole addictive nature to it I deeply disliked; the shallow drama... I just had to get off. Now I'm only really on Discord
on servers with people I know, lol. But Discord is going downhill, so
who knows how long I'll stay on there (friends and I have joked about using Slack instead, lmao).
I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to
back then to find a system that Linux supported...
IRC is still IRC...
Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.
...if you want to say something, you have to��
SAY something. :-)
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest Jan Smith on Sat May 10 2025 08:24:06
IRC is still IRC...
I actually plan to look into IRC once I figure out how to do it securely--and run an IRC server with friends if it's easy enough to do, securely, without needing too much major kit.
Foriest Jan Smith wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-I followed the instructions here and got up and running pretty easy.
@MSGID: <[email protected]>
@REPLY: <[email protected]>
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest
Jan Smith on Sat May 10 2025 08:24:06
IRC is still IRC...
I actually plan to look into IRC once I figure out how to do it securely--and run an IRC server with friends if it's easy enough to do, securely, without needing too much major kit.
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Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-No, you don't forget!
@MSGID: <[email protected]>
@REPLY: <[email protected]>
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan
Smith on Fri May 09 2025 10:22:42
Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.
My first build a 486DX, 33mhz system. I remember being nervous as
hell, particularly when I was installing the CPU (careful you don't
bend the pins, make sure it's oriented correctly, only use a dab of thermal paste!). Once I got past that, everything else was a breeze.
For me, "plug and play" ment plugging the power cord into the wall and praying nothing blew up. When that didn't happen and I heard the "DING" followed by the BIOS msgs, I was thrilled ("Yes! Yes! YEEEESSSS!").
You never forget your first build.
That site has instructions on how to set up
many services, for those that like to self-
host.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-
Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into a working PC... Did it
for family when they needed a new computer. Save them some money; I learned a lot. :-)
Before the days of the $100 HP/Compaq that is...
Yeah, I liked the corner computer stores in San Francisco in the '90s, they'd build white-box servers and desktops to spec and usually just charge their usual markup on parts. If you bought a server, you could
buy their burn-in service.
I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to back then to find a system that Linux supported...
Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 10:22:42
Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.
My first build a 486DX, 33mhz system. I remember being nervous as
hell, particularly when I was installing the CPU (careful you don't
bend the pins, make sure it's oriented correctly, only use a dab of thermal paste!). Once I got past that, everything else was a breeze.
For me, "plug and play" ment plugging the power cord into the wall and praying nothing blew up. When that didn't happen and I heard the "DING" followed by the BIOS msgs, I was thrilled ("Yes! Yes! YEEEESSSS!").
You never forget your first build.
Nice! :-)
I liked building my own so I could repair/replace or even upgrade stuff
as needed.
You never forget your first build.
In 1994 after reading Computer Shopper Magazine and reading about VESA BUS I told the builder of my 486DX33 to get a Orchid Faherinheidt(sp?)
VESA Video Board for it and a BIG 330MB HDD.
(Back then ads for computers had 120 or 220MB HDD's).
Ed
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Mon May 12 2025 07:47 pm
i have no idea why you are telling me this.
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My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had
Misfit wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had
Nice to run into another old school CoConut all these years later. :-)
Yeah, I started with a CoCo2 likewise, then by the time I was at the apogee of my coco days I was running a 512K CoCo3, OS9 Level II, and MultiVue. My dream was to add a HDD, but only the super rich could
afford them in those days, lol.
So, I just made do with 5.25" swappping. Still, it was pretty cool running a true multi-tasking, windowing, RTOS, on just an 8bit
computer! :-)
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