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   Message 951 of 1,530   
   Kurt Weiske to Stan Hosdar   
   Re: what's classic now?   
   27 Jun 21 08:04:00   
   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 master/b81540481 May 18 2021 MSC 1928   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 master/b81540481 May 18 2021 MSC 1928   
   BBSID: REALITY   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   -=> Stan Hosdar wrote to All <=-   
      
    SH> i dug up a IBM 365ED laptop, a modem, dialing up into this bulletin   
    SH> board that I discovered is a FIDONET hub.. and here I am   
      
    SH> while I think this is better in the DOS/WIN95 subs, but is this   
    SH> considered classic?   
      
      
   Works for me - congrats on the Thinkpad find, I love those old laptops.   
      
      
    SH> I've been learning more and more about computer history, and im   
    SH> inrtigued how much CP/M (and DOS) have borrowed fro the PDP-11, my   
    SH> minicomputer eperience is next to nill with them having been largely   
    SH> abandoned in places where I could play with them...   
      
   Have you seen the 3d-printed PDP faceplate driven by a Raspberry Pi? Looks    
   like you could get your PDP fix without having to run old iron.   
      
   One of my first computer science classes was assembler on a PDP, I'm tempted    
   to fire up an emulator and type in my old programs.   
      
    SH> (save for a VT-100 terminal or an old teletype / printer that we used   
    SH> in CS class)   
      
   I lament the loss of Weirdstuff Warehouse - it was a store that, back in the    
   '90s to 2010 or so was a treasure trove of old hardware. Stacks of Sun Pizza    
   box systems, old HP Apollo and DEC Alpha systems, old rackmount servers, and    
   you could usually find a serial terminal or two lurking in the back, most    
   likely a Wyse 50.   
      
      
   ... Consider different fading systems   
   --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52   
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