Big Blue and Cousins' BBS circa 1995
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UnaClocker · 2016-12-03 16:02

I think that's way earlier than 95. Those horizontal desktop cases
were long gone by 95. I'd be surprised if that's even in the 90's.

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mowrawn · 2016-12-03 16:44

Could be old hardware. BBSs didn't take too much power and it's
certainly cheaper to buy a bunch of retired hardware.  In the last 80s
my basement had a multinode bbs running on CP/M boxes from much
earlier.

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mowrawn · 2016-12-03 16:45

Actually, towers were catching on in 1995 but the horizontal cases
were still sold.  Packard Bell at least had them.

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ShooterJennings · 2016-12-03 17:07

I had a horizontal desktop in 95. Even though you may be right (this
was documented at this date), you do have to consider this BBS went up
in 1983 and probably added slowly as the next 12 years went on --
probably adding machines/nodes every couple years. I don't doubt it
could be accurate, but it is possible that it is not.

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beigemore · 2016-12-04 00:46

They still make horizontal deskop cases.  I have several ATX cases
like that.

I believe Enlight still made a lot of them through the late 90s and
early 2000s before they went away.

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lagmonst3r · 2016-12-04 02:25

There are some hints to dates in the pics.  Look at the modems.

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TheHobbitryInArms · 2017-01-29 16:32

I had a 286 in a mini tower in '91 and later upgraded to a 486sx.

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[deleted] · 2017-01-29 17:32

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mowrawn · 2017-01-29 17:33

Yep, they were available.  It just took longer before they were the
standard