Subj : Re: Current MS-DOS
To   : mseifert
From : hyjinx
Date : Tue Feb 09 2021 19:15:11

Hey!

 ms>  Mo> Hi all,
 ms>  Mo>     Out of curiosity how many folks have a machine running MS-DOS
 ms>  Mo> currently? Any of the original versions.. No DOS-BOX or such.. just
 ms>  Mo> Microsoft.
 ms>  Mo>     If so, what are you using it for? I miss it for sure. It just
 ms>  Mo> struck me that someone may still be using a copy of it for some reaso
 ms>  Mo> or another.

So my normal machine is an IBM 5160/XT, but at the moment I've just acquired
a 5170/AT, so I'm playing with that. Both of them have network cards and I'm
using Michael Brutman's wonderful mTCP software to connect to BBS's with
Telnet. I also run ftpsrv on it to transfer files between my Windows 10/Linux
boxen to it. There is still a surprisingly large amount of things one can do
with it. You can cheat and combine it with something like a Raspberry Pi and
from then your world is your oyster; text mode email, browsing, even ANSI
based JPG/GIF file viewing! Not to mention reddit clients, news readers and
more. 

If you're not cheating, and using it stock, I still really enjoy using that
wonderful Model F or Model M for wordprocesing (for example, I wrote the
first draft to the new BBS documentary, "Back to the BBS" on my XT). Of
course there are games and other stuff like that which I play from time to
time.

You'll find my adventures in geeking out with all things old computers on my
YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/alsgeeklab

Cheers!
Al

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