Subj : Re: Hello!
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sun Feb 09 2020 21:12:00

-=> Mike Powell wrote to Josh Allen-Clark <=-

 MP> Welcome back to BBSing.  Hope you find it as enjoyable as you did back
 MP> then.  The first machine I called a BBS on was a 8088 XT clone with a
 MP> 2400 baud modem that was usually more reliable at 1200.  That was also
 MP> the first machine I ever hosted a BBS on.  I still have that BBS
 MP> online, but it is no longer on the XT.

Very cool! My first BBS dialer was also an 8088 - monochrome monitor - dual
floppy. Had a 14.4 in it and it was BLAZING fast! LOL But I had to slow it
to 9600 to upload. ;-)

I remember the fun of using DOS 3.3 to make a boot disk for downloading
and another for uploading. :-)




.... Auto correct has become my worst enema.
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