Subj : Hi, mixed
To   : Lesley-Dee Dylan
From : Mark Timbers
Date : Mon Jul 10 2000 02:01 pm

Lesley-Dee Dylan wrote in a message to Barry Blackford:

 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 <     :-)

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

I started the BBS back in '86 with an Atari 800XL with 360k of drive space 
spread over two 90k floppies and two ram drives. Upgraded the Atari to a 360k 
floppy and three 720k floppies (5.25) before making the big jump to a 10 meg 
full height drive. Paid $120 for the drive used. Times and prices have changed. 
Still have that drive around here some place...

Mark Timbers 

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