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sefs
November 26th, 2009, 09:30 PM
... and mail tossing.

Show your age and discuss. :)
redrac
November 26th, 2009, 10:28 PM
Bought my first homebuilt pc parts from fidonet. 5x86 amd 133. Was upgrading from my 486sx2 50 packard bell pos. Got fidonet through local college BBS system. Didn't have internet in this town, other then AOL at 2400 baud. Got 28.8 from the BBS's First installed slackware 3.2 on that system. Came in the book Linux unleashed. I got it working but was a real pita.
sefs
November 26th, 2009, 10:58 PM
I recently set up a BBS for old times sake.

Syncrhonet + Windows NT4. Signed up for a Fidonet mail id and its purring like a baby.

Some of the groups are still pretty active.

I've got Legend of the Red Dragon, etc.
diesch
November 26th, 2009, 11:18 PM
I've been 2:2476/480.4 and 2:2476/880.29
sefs
November 26th, 2009, 11:47 PM
I've been 2:2476/480.4 and 2:2476/880.29

Do those still work?
diesch
November 27th, 2009, 12:06 AM
No, I left FidoNet some years ago when 2:2476/880 went offline.
tele_mark
November 27th, 2009, 12:11 AM
Use to be on Fido and Relaynet. Belonged to )(evious BBS and ChannelOne, and a host of smaller ones. My first exposure to the Internet and Unix was on world.std.com. Used to be amused at people getting pissed at ANSI graphics posts.
Daveski
November 27th, 2009, 01:34 AM
... and mail tossing.

Show your age and discuss. :)

scantoss.
As for showing my age, we have people at work who send emails with attachments larger than my first hard disk 8-O
Icehuck
November 27th, 2009, 06:16 AM
Show my age? I have worked with 10.8" hard disk drives and 8" floppy drives.
Exodist
November 27th, 2009, 06:29 AM
Show my age? I have worked with 10.8" hard disk drives and 8" floppy drives.
LOL This.. ^^
Bezmotivnik
November 27th, 2009, 06:51 AM
Show your age and discuss. :)
I first went online on the internet in San Francisco in around '83. 300B acoustic coupler on top of my Actrix "portable" computer with a Western Electric telephone handset stuck in it.

I lived in SF for about fifteen years and knew Tom Jennings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Jennings) casually. He drove a really strange car, I don't remember what...a Nash Rambler that had mag wheels and ran on natural gas or something. He was part of a lot of really strange scenes.
alexcckll
November 27th, 2009, 07:43 AM
I occasionally dialled into a nearby bulletin board from an old Amstrad CPC6128.. never went as far as subscribing - so never sent echomail through it.

But I did look around that board occasionally.. at 1200/75.

Just a humble user running as a glass TTY back then.. Dad had a Prestel account.