Subj : Hi, mixed
To   : Barry Blackford
From : Lesley-Dee Dylan
Date : Fri Jul 07 2000 05:39 pm

 SL> if in the 80's there were only 360kb disks and less...

 BB> In the late 80's I ran the bbs on one 20mb HDD, soon 
 BB> upgraded to TWO 20gb drives blah blah <     :-)

And I started on two 720K floppies and an Atari 520 ST.  One floppy held the 
BBS software and stuff like that, the other held the message base (note the 
singular on that).  Every couple of days, I'd have to copy the message base 
onto a new floppy.

Then it was the twin 20megger MFM hard drives.  At that time, I was able to get 
into networking the BBS with other computers, with the Fnet Atari-specific 
network.  Continued with that for some time, then added Binkley and got into 
Fido while still running the ST.  Our then NEC Phillip Catt came over to my 
place for a visit one day, fiddled with the computer, and killed the hard 
drives, forcing me to switch to a 386-40DX, with a half gig hard drive.  That 
was big time back then.

Phil survived.  I still have the computer tucked away in storage.  Hard drive 
wound up in the trash.


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