Subj : Old BBS printouts found!
To   : Sam Alexander
From : Finnigann
Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 07:57 am

-=> Sam Alexander wrote to All <=-

 SA> Hey Guys --

 SA> I was looking through my closet of old computer parts and junk, and I
 SA> ran across a little brown file.  Upon opening the file I found all my
 SA> printouts I made and kept from the first year or so when I started
 SA> using BBSes in 1989.  I got a modem and printer both at the same time,
 SA> so I printed EVERYTHING!  I have literally my first dial into a BBS
 SA> printed out along with the magazine I got my first BBS from.

 SA> What's neat is I have TONS of printouts from other BBSes, and dang I
 SA> forgot what just black and white ASCII text lookedl ike back then.
 SA> These printouts were all done on my TRS-80 Coco 2, direct connect
 SA> 300bps modem, and my Tandy DMP-106 dot matrix printer.  Dang these
 SA> brought back memories!!!

You now need a scanner and you can publish some of the more interesting ones.


 SA> Something else funny is my fiancee works with a lady who's hubby used
 SA> to run one of the more popular local boards, and I found all sorts of
 SA> printouts from his board from Dec 1989.  I'm making copies for him :)

 SA> Anyone else have such memorabilita from the days of past still laying
 SA> around?  Other then my first PC (an 8088 Samsung clone), I still have
 SA> every computer, modem, etc I've used in a closet.  I'd love to pull'em
 SA> out and see if I can get them back up.  Don't know why, but might be
 SA> fun :)

And a digital camera (or a digitizing service) and you are almost a museum.

I think I got the LAST XT made. Everyone else had long ago gone to AT's or 386.
But I managed to find an XT. I even tried to tell friends about the discount
availible on the COMMODORE 40HD w 5-1/4 floppy and a 3-1/2 floppy. I thought I
was getting bleeding edge technology as it said recently upgraded to/from... I
shudder to thing what that same $600 would buy today...

Yeah, you have a gold mine there. Hope to be able to see some of it online
sometime.



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