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Anyone remember,,
by Dirty Pirate - 2/19/06 2:00 AMAnyone besides me remember the FIDOnet and BBS's. Was reading an article that kindda triggered fond memories.
I do...
by kevinpmil - 2/19/06 7:03 AM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty Pirate....and I also remember getting busy signals waiting to connect to the message boards cause only one person could connect at a time.
My how times have changed.
But, it was still fun times.
I definitely do
by barret55 - 2/19/06 7:53 AM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty PirateI remember getting on all the Commodore 64 BBS's in my area. We also would have picnics and get-togethers. Man, such fun times!
AOL remembered
by MacHugger - 2/19/06 12:42 PM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty PirateI remember America Online being one of the few "Mac friendly" BBS type services among all of the Prodigy and CompuServe type ISPs (before they were ISPs). I think Prodigy (and maybe CompuServe) supported the Mac but it wasn't really Mac standard. Whereas AOL's software was closer to what we were used to.
Back in the day, I worked within a mile of the AOL office in Dulles (Sterling) Virginia and it was peculiar watching it explode from a little dial-up service to a gigantic mega-corp with a huge facility in what seemed like just a couple of years.
Then again, my mind tends to stretch and shrink the timescale of events at a completley random rate.
-Kevin S.
Floppies to CDs
by MacHugger - 2/19/06 12:55 PM In reply to: AOL remembered by MacHuggerSomething I remembered...
With the rise of Mega-AOL, I remember never having to buy another floppy for years leading up to Macs discontinuing them. It seems like I got a new one every week from AOL that I just erased and used for data.
Then along came AOL on CD and all they are good for are party tricks if you turn off the lights, throw it into a microwave for 3 seconds and watch it arc into a web of electricty as it fries the aluminum coating.
-Kevin S.
Yes!
by rtemp - 2/19/06 1:08 PM In reply to: Floppies to CDs by MacHuggerAOL CD's are great fun. In addition to the ever-fun (albeit bad smelling) trick of microwaved CD's, there are other fun things that my friends and I have engaged in, including, but not limited to:
frisbees (and disc battles)
coasters (I'm using one like that right now)
make art in the form of scratches
What would life be like without AOL?
Compuserve
by beelissa - 2/19/06 1:26 PM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty PirateYes, I remember this, and I remember being able to connect to CompuServe without their software -- you'd get a DOS-like menu list, and use that to navigate. There were free areas that didn't charge time, so you could use them as long as you could connect (email was one of those) and there were areas where you were limited or charged time -- they gave you a certain amount each month, I never went over that so I can't remember how it worked.
Then one day and AOL disk appeared in the mail. I remember thinking how easy it was. You didn't have to think, or know anything about how to get your computer to dial a number using the modem, etc., you just put the disk in the machine and poof! it did everything for you. This was on our very first computer -- we had to buy the mouse and Windows separately. First, after you turned it on, you installed DOS. Then we installed the mouse and Windows. When you turned it on, you had to type in WIN to get into Windows. I remember my (now 14 year old) son trying to type WIN on the library's computer (set up to only searh for books using some dedicated software) -- he was only 3 at the time, I thought he was pretty smart.
Me too
by pkscout - 2/19/06 4:24 PM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty PirateI sure do. I was on Compuserve. I was even a beta tester for AOL. Please don't hit me. Everything they did after launch was definitely *not* my fault. They didn't listen to any of my feedback anyway. 
don't feel bad
by beelissa - 2/20/06 10:30 AM In reply to: Me too by pkscoutI think AOL was really great, at first. I liked it, in the beginning. What ruined it was all the ads that started to be downloaded, and also the spam. Someone actually found a way to redirect spam to make it look like it was coming from my email address. It was a nightmare. AOL actually investigated it and fixed it, though I will never again pick a 4-letter screen name on a common ISP.
BBS
by bozeman - 2/20/06 8:57 AM In reply to: Anyone remember,, by Dirty Piratelong live the 300 baud modem!
<ahem>
first computer
by beelissa - 2/20/06 10:35 AM In reply to: BBS by bozemanI still remember my brother's first computer. A Leading Edge, that was the brand name. 2 5-1/4 inch floppy drives, no hard drive, just a basic text monitor. It didn't come with a modem, so I went down to the computer store and bought him one for Christmas. It cost around $100 and I think it was 1200 baud, but I could be wrong.
I remember finding a big round styrofoam ball and putting the modem in the bottom of a cardboard box with the styrofoam ball sticking out the top and then wrapping the whole thing. He could not guess what it was!
First Computer
by bozeman - 2/20/06 5:42 PM In reply to: first computer by beelissaya, I remember when hard drives first were really affordable, boy am I dating myself! I stay young as most of my friends are in their early mid20s though! Hard to find people in their 30s nowadays that can keep up =P
My first computer was a Texas Instrument, TI-99/4A, I still remember the Bill Cosby Commercials. Used to program TI-Basic into the wee hours of the morning before my parents caught me.
I had the TI-99/4A too
by acedtect
- 2/20/06 8:27 PM
In reply to: First Computer by bozeman
Did a bunch of programming and saving games to Maxell cassettes.
Also played a lot of Parsec and TI Invaders.
TI-99/4A
by bozeman - 2/21/06 6:01 AM In reply to: I had the TI-99/4A too by acedtect
It was a good little machine, better then the Commodore 64 IMO. I still have my cassettes and that's it. TI-Doom and Parsec were my favorites for games. I went the route of TI-99/4a, Commodore 64, then PC. But it was the machine that got me coding.
A couple years ago, my mother was cleaning the old store room, found my TI, and threw it out. (Thought I collected everything I owned over the years, oops.)Then I told her how much I saw one on eBay go for, so she meekly replied, well I save the Commodore 64? ugh
So now I run an emulator under Mame for both.
Took the exact same route
by acedtect - 2/21/06 3:36 PM
In reply to: TI-99/4A by bozeman
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First computer I ever touched: Apple ][
First computer: TI-99/4A
First second computer: Timex Sinclair
Traded TI for: Commodore 64 with TWO floppy drives
In college bought an IBM PS/2 30286
Out of college bought a Packard-Bell 486DX
Sold that to get: Acer Pentium 100
Sold that to get: Hewlett-Packard Pentium 266
Bought a Compaq AMD 500
Bought a Dell Pentium 1.2 GHZ
Sold Compaq
Bought wife a Titanium PowerBook
Bought a ThinkPad T42
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