Board:   bttfbbs public messages
Subject: Calling in from 386
From:    jnt
Date:    Sun Dec 16, 2018 18:25
Tags:    greetings

Hi guys!
How are you?

I got my flux capacitor working, managed to generate 1.21GW of power from a lightning and got back to the future with a new computer:
CPU: Am386DX 40MHz
RAM: 8x 4MB 30pin simm
GPU: Cirrus Logic 5424 (1MB)
SND: Sound Blaster 16
NIC: 3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509-TPO)
FDD: 1.44MB floppy drive + GoTek emulator of 2.88MB drive
HDD: 4GB Compact Flash (divided into 2x2GB partitions)

I have done some heavy memory management so that i have all drivers loaded
(from mouse to ethernet card) and still have around 630KB of conventional
memory + around 80KB of upper memory.

Back when BBS stuff was popular, unfortunately i was a bit too young and also didn't have access to internet contected computers. (My internet experience started on 2002) But i do have have went through different computers starting with 286.
For the good old times, i'm trying to put together the most pimped up 386, 486 and Pentium 1 computers as they all are really different - ISA vs VLB vs PCI, 30p vs 72p vs 168p RAM, DOS vs Win3.11 vs Win95 as op.sys. etc.
If this message is coming through, then it seems that my 386 computer is pretty much complete.

Oh, i my favorite BTTF is the original. You can't never beat the original.

Really cool BBS, hope to arrive back here soon. :)

J.

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