Subj : Re: Thin client PC to run
To   : Gamgee
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Dec 01 2025 07:01:51

-=> Gamgee wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

 Ga> I have often thought that that "era" (let's call it '85 to '97 or so)
 Ga> of computing was my favorite time with computers.  Sure, we now have so
 Ga> much more capability, and Linux, and graphics galore and all....
 Ga> but.... that period of time was when I feel like I "peaked" in many
 Ga> abilities. All the stuff you had to know to maximize MSDOS, and batch
 Ga> files, and putting *so* many pieces of software together to run a
 Ga> complete BBS/Mailer setup.  I think of it as the "Golden Years".  ;-)

Getting a batch file, BBS, utilities and a mailer all working together
was a high point of BBSing in the DOS era. Scheduling mail runs, echo
maintenance, defragging, log rotation and online games was pretty fly.

Did I just type that?


 
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