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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    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 894.classicc@1:218/700 253dd202       REPLY: 1:229/426 07CED5B7       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        * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 14/0 18/200 30/0 80/1 90/1 102/401 103/705 105/81       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/131 129/305 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 401 410 601       SEEN-BY: 218/700 802 810 840 850 860 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 428 452 700 981 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/1       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 261/38 280/464 282/464 1038 292/854 301/0       SEEN-BY: 301/1 101 113 317/3 322/757 341/66 342/200 633/280 712/848       SEEN-BY: 920/1 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 218/700 301/1 229/426           |
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