4 gig? Whoothewhat? For a 128?

I'm thinking 4MB.

I still remember modding hard drives from MFM to RLL, doing a low level format and changing out the controller to turn a 20MB drive into a MASSIVE 30MB Drive.

When 1G drives came out, I was thinking "who would use that much space?!??" That was around the time of BBS's, and downloads were still small, Windows came on 10 3 1/2" disks, and most all software fit on a single 3 1/2" disk.

 

I see we all got stuck in Memory Lane. This was my fist PC, advancing from the C64.

I had an extra CRT monitor. I still have it, in my parents attic. This was a fantastic piece of work.

 

I see we all got stuck in Memory Lane. This was my fist PC, advancing from the C64.

I had an extra CRT monitor. I still have it, in my parents attic. This was a fantastic piece of work.

COOL!

I was the host/ran a BBS for 2 years on one of those in college! By the end, I paid $1100 for 2 9600 baud modems! Had a fidonet internet email gateway and everything. If it weren't for donations, I'd have gone broke since 3 phone lines were RARE in residential areas back then.

 

what's BBS

 

what's BBS

Bulletin Board Service (or System)

It was like a big database, before the World Wide Web. You could call it with your computer and download gif, apps, games etc. The best BBS had multiple phonelines in, so many people could call and DL stuff.

There were many BBS around the world, but they started to die away in 1993 I guess. When the NET as we know it started to grow.

 

COOL!

I was the host/ran a BBS for 2 years on one of those in college! By the end, I paid $1100 for 2 9600 baud modems! Had a fidonet internet email gateway and everything. If it weren't for donations, I'd have gone broke since 3 phone lines were RARE in residential areas back then.

The SysOp - System Operator

The SigOp - Is Signal Operator, but the people under the SysOp that handled specific parts of the BBS (News, games, apps, etc) were called SigOps.

thatoneguy was a nerd.. I mean a sysop!

Actually, I ran one from 11pm to 5am for a few weeks, until my folks got the phone bill from the FidoNET frontdoor calling long distance.

BWTP -- Boy Were They P!$$__

 

My BBS is still active, though barely. Given the expense of a phone line I now have hours, and it is temperamental whether it answers the phone or not.

11:00PM - 6:00AM CMT
The Mars Den BBS
974-494-4424

 

You forgot to add
8N1

Now about that 4 gig drive?! Was that a typo, or gig you drop your lottery winnings building a huge array?

 

OK..so what is "BS"

 

My BBS is still active, though barely.

If I only had a phone...

and a modem...

and Telix...

OK..so what is "BS"

Could "BS" be something coming out in the back end of a bull?

 

Eeeeeeeeeeep!!! Sorry... I get it.

 

Look up hyperterminal ... that would work to access a BBS.

Of course you would need a com port .... phone line, modem, et.al.

 

http://bbslist.textfiles.com/417/

I ran QuickBBS with FrontDoor on a DTK 8088, then 80286 with dual Practical Peripherals 14.4 LCD Modems. Typical monthly telephone bill was $400.

I’m still amazed how fancy and detailed ASCII art could be!

joe

 

I’m still amazed how fancy and detailed ASCII art could be!

There was alot of TTY art back in the day of 5 level baudot. Not that any of it showed up much on the offical circuits.

 

You forgot to add
8N1

Now about that 4 gig drive?! Was that a typo, or gig you drop your lottery winnings building a huge array?

Creative Micro Devices

The company still exists (I think), but has long left the Commodore scene. They were direct competition for the Lt. Colonel drives. It was primarily a SCSI drive with one really good OS, it was a close match for how Commodore 1541/71 did things, including the BAM.

 

But it was 4 GIGs?

I didn't think the operating system could handle FATs for that big of a drive.

Or was that just max file size?

 

Do you remember the old commodore BAM file (similar to the FAT file)?

You could have 256 partitions, and each partition could be 16 Meg max. The OS could also have partitions emulate 1541, 1571, and 1581 floppies, for software that really, really cared (such as Q-Link). It was very cool, if it had come out a little sooner it might have extended Commodore's life a few years.

 

Q-link was awesome. I remember waiting at a friends house every night till 9pm when his mom would finally let us "take-over" the phone lines.

We dialed into q-link.

It was quite fascinating back then.

 

ProComm Plus ... was my favorite general purpose comms program. It even had a built in BBS ... nothing too fancy though.

 

Now that this turned into BBS... Did anybody else buy the MobiTurbo Z modem protocol to add into Procomm+? It added a good 10cps boost.

I still use it in SSH transfers to linux boxes with SecureCRT, pretty cool to have a protocol that scales perfectly from 2.4kps to 100kps.