Subj : Re: Workbench 1.3
To   : Charles Stephenson
From : Don Lowery
Date : Thu Apr 23 2020 22:20:09

 CS>  DL> Bought a used Lenovo ThinkCentre for $50. Upgraded to 12 GB & a 1 TB 
 CS>  DL> laptop drive I use for running ArcaOS. Got both at the same time as I
 CS> Sounds like the perfect system for running a BBS on. I also have a
 CS> Lenovo, it's the Tiny Form Factor. I love it!

It's small...sits on its side just beside my monitor which is sitting on an
Allsop stand. Outta the way...access to the DVD drive & USB ports. Even using
a USB KVM switch to go between the two systems.

It came with an 8 GB SSD I took off it & added another 8 GB stick for about
$35 for a total of 12 GB. My desktop has just been upgraded to 2 8 GB sticks.
The great thing about these systems is they were used in retail outlets...so
we get them super cheap for doing exactly what I'm doing. For that
matter...thought about getting another RPi...but that would've cost me
more...even though I have a 3B+ & a Zero I bought at the holidays.

 CS> ago was a older Intel Pentium system. After I transfered everything over
 CS> to the Lenovo that PC has been collecting dust. I was planning on making
 CS> that into either a OS/2 PC or a Amiga one. It has 2 modems in it. I'm

I was looking for a P4 system...but for the cost of 1 of those...I can buy at
least 2 of these POS systems.

That didn't occur to me about using a stock ThinkCentre as an Amiga PC with
WinUAE. As stupid as prices are for actual hardware...I could get 10-12 of
these systems for the cost of an actual Amiga system which might not even
work.

 CS> I did install a older version of ArcaOS on that unused desktop. I'm not
 CS> even sure where I downloaded it from, but it was a old version. Even
 CS> with that, it looks pretty good.  I did have some boot issues. It would
 CS> hang on occasion so I put playing with it to the backburner.

It does have some hangups once in a while...but whenever I get the board up &
running...am going to let it run by itself.

Even found a Hobbes OS/2 CD set I got from Archive.org from 1995. Put that
up...along with 4.52 to get others to start running it as well.

 CS> For sure, I'll be bugging you guys very soon!

NP!!! This has been a dream of mine to run a BBS under OS/2 with
Renegade...but with a native OS/2 version of Telegard...no reason to look at
RG. Add to that if another version of Mystic for OS/2 comes out...will be
running that...since TG/2 also does JAM message bases.

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