1. Forum
  2. Fidonet
  3. MEMORIES

  • Storage

    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Jul 14 05:36:18 2022
    Daryl wrote --

    Microsoft keeps putting stuff on to slow it down, so you'll buy
    a newer, faster computer.

    Yep.

    Remember all the rush when Windows 95 first came out??

    I have a 95 disk in my collection.

    So many found out the truth of "being guinea pig beta testers" for the operating system (I wasn't one of them, thankfully). <G>

    I got a almost new pc with 95 on it, cheap. Well, actually free. The
    case was damaged in an accident but the innards still worked just fine. The business just tossed it and I was standing by the dumpster catching it.
    Had it for several years.
    That replaced my 286 I brought used, which replaced my Commie.
    Joe
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
    * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392)
  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Jul 14 13:13:00 2022
    Joe,


    I got a almost new pc with 95 on it, cheap. Well, actually free.
    The case was damaged in an accident but the innards still worked just fine. The business just tossed it and I was standing by the dumpster catching it.

    When Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock was discarding all their
    old computer hardware, a friend of my brother's (I didn't know him at the
    time) got an 8088 XT, with 640K of RAM, a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive,
    a monochrome green monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard, with DOS 3.2 on it.
    That became the birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS in May, 1992.

    That replaced my 286 I brought used, which replaced my Commie.

    Was that a computer from Russia?? <G>

    Daryl

    ... Don't lend people money. It causes amnesia.
    === MultiMail/Win v0.52
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (1:2320/33)
  • From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Fri Jul 15 07:08:08 2022
    Daryl wrote --

    When Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock was discarding all their old computer hardware, a friend of my brother's (I didn't know him at the time) got an 8088 XT, with 640K of RAM, a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy

    Marshall has semi-annual yard sales where items that had been replaced
    are offered for sale to the public in a silent auction.
    One time I was in a open on four sides building to get something for parking. (The building housed mostly mechanical equipment such as mowers, plows, etc).
    In one area were pallets of old computers, keyboards, etc. I asked why
    they were there and told "for the yard sale". Sheesh. Stuff sitting in
    pretty much open area of dirt, dust, rain, etc and they expected to sell those.
    A fella who ran a pc repair shop I know (knew him from his bbs years
    ago) would buy some of pc's to part out. About all they were good for after a week or so.
    I brought some stuff from the sales.
    One is a heavy as iron four drawer maple desk from a dorm room, $5.
    My computer desk, with hutch, $15.
    And a few other odds and ends.
    One time they had something like 100 new in the box, never been opened, iPads that were given to the university and never used. Missed out on one
    of those.

    That replaced my 286 I brought used, which replaced my Commie.

    Was that a computer from Russia?? <G>

    Yep. Could only write in Cyrillic. :)
    Joe
    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
    * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392)