Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : Weatherman
Date : Sun Nov 20 2022 19:25:50


pF> The first incarnation of realitycheckBBS had 2 30 mb drives and 2 mb of
pF> RAM. Hard to fathom that it did mostly what I'm doing now on a VM with 2
pF> cores, 3 GB of RAM and 100 GB of disk. Of course it would fill up the
pF> disk during a Fido mail run and crap itself, but what the heck...
pF> 
pF> I used to have to unpack Fido mail packets into separate directories per
pF> echomail area, with *.msg files for each message, then import those into
pF> the message base. Took up twice the amount of disk space for what I'd
pF> import.

In my early sysop BBS days, I had a total of (5) message areas and only 20 messages each.  Anything more would fill up the (2) 5 1/4 floppies.

Once I went from Apple to PC and ran an early version of WWIV, I had more storage and a hard drive.  Joining WWIVnet back in the late 80s, I had plenty of storage for all the message areas.  I was not in any FTN/Fido network back then and there was no support for it in WWIV.

It wasn't until around the early-mid 90s when there were programs created to allow FTN networks to work with WWIV.  I was a very early adopter of that with WWIVTOSS (and still use it today).

- Mark
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