Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Paulie420
From : Moondog
Date : Thu May 14 2020 01:17:00

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Paulie420 to Dumas Walker on Tue May 12 2020 04:08 pm

 >   Re: Re: Home Lab
 >   By: Dumas Walker to PAULIE420 on Tue May 12 2020 12:39 pm
 > 
 >  >> For BBS stuff, I came a little later - so DOS (and the FreeDOS)
 >  >> project now - where my heart lies... I want to setup two boxes, and
 >  >> 8088 AT IBM machine and powerhouse 486 system.... thats my hayday.
 > 
 >  DW> Yeah, my nostalga systems would be the 8088 and a 386 DX-40. Those were
 >  DW> first two clone machines.
 > 
 > Yep... my Uncle was an engineer @ IBM world headquarters in New York. So we 
 > A upgrade on that PC...
 > 
 > Later came a Tandy that sucked, but my parents paid big bucks for... ugh. Ha
 > t point, I knew everything and was a super computer hacker and was always in
 > 
 > Man I miss those times.
 > 
 >    |08Paulie|15420
 >    |15M|08@|15STERM|07i|15ND
 > |14AmericanPiBBS|04.com|07
 > 

I find it interesting there is no stopping point in learning as technology
advances.  As you stated, DOS and pre-plug and play systems required savvy
with regards to making devices play together, plus having to adjust
autoexec.bat and config.sys settings so everything ran at it's best.  With
Win 3.x, it was the .ini files.  With Win9x and above, knowledge of the
registry became important.  When I began experimenting with linux 15 years
ago, it reminded me alot like DOS and Win 3.x because of the system config
files.  It was fun to take a so-called "pc expert" and sit him down in front
of something other than Win XP or newer, especially linux.

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