Subj : Re: The Downfall of OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : paulie420
Date : Sun May 14 2023 11:30:59

 Ni> There used to be a store in my area that sold used computer software  Ni> (they closed down after a little while - I think the practice of a store  Ni> selling used computer software was a legal grey area). I had bought a  Ni> used copy of OS/2 there, and I remember it being on floppies and some of  Ni> the disks were bad.. 

I sure miss the local-owned computer stores of yesteryear... data has basically changed everything. At every speed bump, we've gained so much compute - but lost a lot in that process, too.

I also miss the local computer clubs. In the 80/90s you could find one in almost every town and city across the United States... my 'contribution' was that I used to socially engineer AOL for disks - they'd send me 100 at a time, as I was to pass them out @ the computer club... little did they know that another guy supplied label-printing and we used those disks for sharing softwarez. :P The good ole days...

 Ni> I ran my BBS in Desqview for a bit once I learned how to set it up.  I
 Ni> only had one phone line for my BBS, so I used the second node to log in
 Ni> locally when there was a user on my BBS already.

Yep... DV finally gave me my computer back - well, actually it helped the bbS get a lot faster; I was running my bbS on an older 286 b/c I wanted the shiny fast 486 for my computer needs... after DV I ran the bbS in the background and could still use the PC - w00t w00t!!



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