Yeah - social media is not something I care for. I see too many people
(my wife included) swipe - swipe - swipe away. Now that's fine if that's what someone wants to do. Heck I'm 'swiping' through messages on echonets, but it's much easier to avoid the drama here. :-)
Foriest Jan Smith wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 08:48:18
Yeah - social media is not something I care for. I see too many people
(my wife included) swipe - swipe - swipe away. Now that's fine if that's what someone wants to do. Heck I'm 'swiping' through messages on echonets, but it's much easier to avoid the drama here. :-)
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).
Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 08:48:18
Yeah - social media is not something I care for. I see too many people (my wife included) swipe - swipe - swipe away. Now that's fine if that's what someone wants to do. Heck I'm 'swiping' through messages on echonets, but it's much easier to avoid the drama here. :-)
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).
As for the shallow drama and such, you are right on target! And at least with BBS's you have to TYPE to express yourself! No quick 'like' or
heart or whatever. And if you want to say something, you have to
SAY something. :-)
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 toÜÜ
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: <681FE9EA.3713.dove-general@enigma-bbs.com>
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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!
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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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