Subj : HCF Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Mike Powell
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun May 17 2020 08:50:07

On 5/14/2020 5:16 PM, between "Mike Powell : AUGUST ABOLINS":

 AA>> I dragged myself through episode 3 (1st season). There was stuff in there that
 AA>> seemed unnecessary and a bit of a distraction.

 MP> There is a lot of stuff like, too.  IIRC, it almost did not come back for a
 MP> second season.

I can probably see why.  It probably caters to a very narrow demographic.

I really enjoyed the episode were the principal BIOS programmer loses the backups due to a degaussing and the panic that ensued.


 AA>> A couple years later, I had a 286/AT AMD based. I started
 AA>> goofing around with RBBS BBS software on that.

 MP> RBBS is supposedly open source now (may have been then,
 MP> too). I have thought about playing around with it some one
 MP> day, but never seem to get around to it.

I started using it when it was included as a file in one of the computer magazines I picked on the magazine stand.  Or, may it was something you could mailorder - I don't recall exactly.  Or maybe it was via download on Compuserve.

Anyway, RBBS-PC was available with source right from the very beginning.  I really enjoyed modding it and compiling it. The official mods where well managed distros too.

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