Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: The Decline of PCs
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Thu Jan 01, 2026 09:39

@VIA: REALITY
-=> Rob Mccart wrote to DUMAS WALKER <=-

 RM> Ha..  For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
 RM> the hardware eventually got too old to mess with anymore and for
 RM> a number of years it ended up being an end table beside my main
 RM> computer desk. Sitting on the floor it was as tall as the desk.

One of the BBS's systems in the 90s was a cast-off 486 server that came
in a desktop case as tall as a table. Locking front door, some unreal
number of 5 1/4" drive bays, and casters to move it around. I don't
think I had more than a single IDE drive and a tape drive in it.

I should have kept the case...



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