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  • Re: The Decline of PCs

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rob Mccart on Thu Jan 1 09:39:26 2026
    Rob Mccart wrote to DUMAS WALKER <=-

    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

    One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
    in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
    number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
    think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

    I should have kept the case...



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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat Jan 3 09:35:57 2026
    Ha.. For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
    the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
    a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
    computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

    One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
    >in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
    >number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
    >think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

    Sounds similar to mine, although I didn't have casters on mine or a
    locking front door. Mine was a 386 system originally. I would have
    had two 5.25 floppy drives in it and I think a 32 meg (updated from
    a 10 meg) hard drive. I remember having to custom make my own cables
    so I could get a Mouse to work on it..

    This would have been around 1988 or 89.

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