Subj : Day to day uses for retro computers
To   : Bob Worm
From : Roon
Date : Thu Aug 03 2023 19:39:39

Hello Bob,

03 Aug 23 18:00, you wrote to All:

 BW> Hi, all.

 BW> I'm curious to hear what (if any!) day-to-day tasks people are
 BW> performing using their retro computers.

 BW> I'm in the middle of restoring a 90s Acorn A3020 I saved from a skip
 BW> (dumpster?) around 20 years ago so at the moment hardware repairs and
 BW> finding / writing software to get a usable system is keeping me busy.
 BW> Now that the serial port is working I have even done a *little* bit of
 BW> BBSing on there, but to be honest it's not very good at it (quirks
 BW> with the ANSI support, etc). I never owned one of these back in their
 BW> heyday so I don't long for any particular games, however I love the
 BW> system and would really like to put it to good use.

i'm using two c64s in the studio, one with MSSH cartridge and cynthcart, one with a SFX sound expander. in the studio the synths are synchronized by my Atari ST1040. i also have a vic-20 with vicmidi cartridge.
i am having c64 and a c128 (at home): i parctice some assembly and playing games.

i have a 386dx40 with linux (testing the slowlyness) and dos (gaming).
i have my dual p166 for my os/2 bbs. i am reaching this via telnet and using golded ;)
and i have a p3 for playing win98 games :)

plans for this autumn/winter:

in the summer i also got some other vintage (pc) hardware and the plan is to build a Netware and a Windows NT network, just for learning. also i would like to create network-bootable dos images, so i don't need all the hard disks to the dos machines.

i have an other atari a c64 and an amiga 500 as well, i would like to experience some bbsing with it, installing ratsoft to the atari and maybe cnet on the 500 and maybe image or color on the c64. i didn't decide which software(s) to use, have to read more about this, because i am new on non-pc bbsing.

Regards,
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