Subj : Hi, mixed
To   : Lesley-Dee Dylan
From : Barry Blackford
Date : Sun Jul 09 2000 05:40 pm

Hello there Lesley-Dee!

08 Jul 00 at 00:39, Lesley-Dee Dylan writes to Barry Blackford:

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

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

Hmmm, now that you mention it we (a friend and I) ran a very part ime bbs on a 
C=128 on two floppy's (not to be beat except by Malcolm who took the cake! 
plate and all!!).

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

Ah! them was the days!!

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

I bet it was close though, if he wasn't NEC........!

Best Rgds, Bazz
barry@glonet.co.nz
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