Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: The Decline of PCs
From:    Rob Mccart
Date:    Sat Jan 03, 2026 09:35

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RM> Ha..  For ages I had a huge Server system with 5 full sized bays but
RM> the hardware eventually got too oldto 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.

PF>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.

Sounds similar to mine, although I didn't have casters onmine or a
locking front door. Mine was a 386 system originally. I would have
had two 5.25 floppy drives in it and I think a 32 meg (updated from
a 10 meg) hard drive. I remember having to custom make my own cables
so I could get a Mouse to work on it..

This would have been around 1988 or 89.

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