Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Nightfox
From : scarface
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 10:58:26

 Ni> What kind of Apple?  I think the Apple 2 was a bit rudimentary compared
 Ni> to a DOS PC, though the Macintosh was a bit more advanced than the
 Ni> typical DOS PC when the Mac came out.

I think apple 2 by the looks of it. I think this was perhaps after we had windows 3.11, but uncertain. I guess I found the gui just slow and clunky. I guess I knew on windows if I couldn't do it there, I could most likely hack around in dos to get something I wanted.

We also had linux machines, unsure if it had a gui or not. I think we had a freesco floppy disk router. All connected with a coax cable that required terminators on the ends. with a 14.4kbps modem, then a 56kpbs. Had a second phone line, and I downloaded a lot. I believe around 17G per month. When we moved to ADSL I had to buy a new harddisk quickly!!

 Ni> 5200).  My high school also had a computer lab with some DOS PCs in it.

My highschool mainly had windows 98 windows 2k windows xp through the years. we learnt Logo turtle programming, BASIC, visual basic, then java. I may have gotten more than most as I showed an trait to picking up stuff quick. Wrote a wee chat program before I knew about others. ran it in our lab. Had a "backdoor" that let me shutdown ppl's computers (with a warning), really just any command, as a prank. Kids... The teacher thought I was hacking the network :D I disabled the backdoor and we were still allowed to "test" the chat program during class.

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