It's been a long time going back to a BBS and boot up the old mac just to go on BSS boards.

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Madhar3 to All on Tue Oct 07 2014 01:54 am

It's been a long time going back to a BBS and boot up the old mac just to
go on BSS boards.

Greetings! SyncTerm runs on new macs (http://syncterm.net/).

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #75:
Michael Swindell still has the "Synchronet Blimp" in his possession.
Norco, CA WX: 74.4øF, 35.0% humidity, 2 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Madhar3 to All on Tue Oct 07 2014 01:54 am

It's been a long time going back to a BBS and boot up the old mac just to go on BSS boards.

How old is your mac? Describe it, I love old computers. For example I bought a used Apple ][gs a few weeks ago, just tried it out last night, happy to say it turns on! Gotta find a PC interface for it now. Need me some Oregon Trail!

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Android8675 to Madhar3 on Wed Oct 08 2014 08:12 am

How old is your mac? Describe it, I love old computers. For example I bought a used Apple ][gs a few weeks ago, just tried it out last night, happy to say it turns on! Gotta find a PC interface for it now. Need me some Oregon Trail!

Ah! You have a ][GS! Those are sooooooo nice.

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Digital Man to Madhar3 on Mon Oct 06 2014 11:53 pm

Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Madhar3 to All on Tue Oct 07 2014 01:54 am

It's been a long time going back to a BBS and boot up the old mac just to go on BSS boards.

Greetings! SyncTerm runs on new macs (http://syncterm.net/).

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #75:
Michael Swindell still has the "Synchronet Blimp" in his possession.
Norco, CA WX: 74.4øF, 35.0% humidity, 2 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

what about the OLD macs!?

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Froggyme to Android8675 on Wed Oct 08 2014 09:05 pm

Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Android8675 to Madhar3 on Wed Oct 08 2014 08:12 am

How old is your mac? Describe it, I love old computers. For example I bought a used Apple ][gs a few weeks ago, just tried it out last night, happy to say it turns on! Gotta find a PC interface for it now. Need me some Oregon Trail!

Ah! You have a ][GS! Those are sooooooo nice.

yeah, i loved those suckers. i used to use my uncle's computer and he
had every game they put out for the iigs

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Ah! You have a ][GS! Those are sooooooo nice.

Cool!

I had a ][gs back in the mid to late 80s. About a year before Apple decided to
drop the Apple ][ line, completely. It was that day that I ditched all things Apple and never went back.

I did like all the Apple ][ systems that I had over the years back then. I owned several ][c systems in addition to the ][gs.

- Mark

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Mark Hofmann to Froggyme on Sat Oct 11 2014 10:18 am

Ah! You have a ][GS! Those are sooooooo nice.

Cool!

I had a ][gs back in the mid to late 80s. About a year before Apple
decided to drop the Apple ][ line, completely. It was that day that I ditched all things Apple and never went back.

I did like all the Apple ][ systems that I had over the years back then. I owned several ][c systems in addition to the ][gs.

you guys are making me want to get one.
but i would only buy one that's working and comes with a lot of games and apps.

those were such perfect little computers. i miss them
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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Jas Hud to Digital Man on Sat Oct 11 2014 03:47 am

Greetings! SyncTerm runs on new macs (http://syncterm.net/).

digital man

Is this because macs now have intel processors?
Just curuius~~~~~~~~~~~ ichael Swindell still has the

"Synchronet Blimp" in his possession. Norco, CA WX: 74.4øF, 35.0% humidity, 2 mph WNW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24

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Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Hustler to Digital Man on Sat Oct 11 2014 05:25 pm

Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Jas Hud to Digital Man on Sat Oct 11 2014 03:47 am

Greetings! SyncTerm runs on new macs (http://syncterm.net/).

Is this because macs now have intel processors?

No, it's because someone (Deuce) took the time to port it to OS X.

digital man

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you guys are making me want to get one.
but i would only buy one that's working and comes with a lot of games and apps.
those were such perfect little computers. i miss them

My BBS started - running on an Apple //c. Somewhere around late 1984 I think -
but don't quote me.

Most people that ran BBS systems back then on Apple // systems, ran them on //e
systems. The //c was too new and not much worked with it - BBS wise.

I ran Apple-Net 2.x back then. It wasn't until around 4 years later that I went PC and over to WWIV.

I remember watching the modem lights and floppy disk access when people would call the BBS in the middle of the night.

Before going PC, I had (2) Apple //c systems and a //gs. They were not cheap systems back then, but most computers were not cheap.

- Mark

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Mark Hofmann to Mro on Tue Oct 14 2014 07:07 pm

I remember watching the modem lights and floppy disk access when people would call the BBS in the middle of the night.

I lived alone when I started the BBS, and used to keep the BBS in a walk
in closet with the modem turned down low so I could still hear it when the room was quiet. Remembered all of the overseas calls at night, and the clatter of two MFM hard drives when processing mail on a 286.



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I lived alone when I started the BBS, and used to keep the BBS in a walk
in closet with the modem turned down low so I could still hear it when
the room was quiet. Remembered all of the overseas calls at night, and
the clatter of two MFM hard drives when processing mail on a 286.

Mine started on an Apple //c with (2) floppies. You could watch the floppy drive light go on/off, along with the modem lights all night long.

When I went to WWIV and a 286 years later with the 40 meg MFM, that was HUGE space at the time. The system was busy just about 24/7. I got very used to falling asleep with the lights flashing since both systems were in my bedroom when I was growing up.

Even when I moved out, it originally stayed in the bedroom of my first apartment. It wasn't until later that it moved into a room setup for computers
in the basement of my first single family home.

These days, it lives on a VM on my ESXi cluster which is in the basement under the steps with the rest of my "network room" stuff.

- Mark

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Mark Hofmann to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Oct 25 2014 09:48 am

When I went to WWIV and a 286 years later with the 40 meg MFM, that was HUGE space at the time. The system was busy just about 24/7. I got very used to falling asleep with the lights flashing since both systems were in

I remember falling asleep to the lashing lights and whirring of the hard drive when I had my first board up. I could tell when people were reading message areas or posting just by listing to the hard drive. :) Kinda miss that. :)

|01-|03nolageek


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I remember falling asleep to the lashing lights and whirring of the hard drive when I had my first board up. I could tell when people were reading message areas or posting just by listing to the hard drive. :) Kinda miss that. :)

Same thing here. I reemember those days like they were yesterday.

The BBS made less noise when people posted when I moved from my Apple //c (with
floppy drives) to a 286-16 PC with a 40 meg MFM hard drive. You could still hear the disk access, but it was much faster.

I could even tell when someone was downloading by just looking at the modem status lights!

- Mark

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Mark Hofmann to Poindexter Fortran on Sat Oct 25 2014 09:48 am

When I went to WWIV and a 286 years later with the 40 meg MFM, that was
HUGE space at the time. The system was busy just about 24/7. I got very used to falling asleep with the lights flashing since both systems were in my bedroom when I was growing up.

Oh man, me too. After my bouts with my TI computer and TRS-80, I got a used IBM
8088 XT that served as my first PC. It had a 20MB MFM hard drive, and ran DOS like a champ. I had no problems running minix on it too. My dad ended up scoring a Mac SE/30 that I'd use too.

Then I later got a 386 computer at my mom's house, and I'd stay up so late using it, falling asleep to the lights flashing too (and the TV tuned to KTEH where old Doctor Who reruns would play in the wee hours of the night/morning). This is the same computer that would have The Dark Knight BBS for a few years running Telegard and later Renegade.

I still stay up late... usually because of work or insomnia (my wife hates it)... but I never fall asleep to the blinking lights anymore :)

Knight

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Knight to Mark Hofmann on Tue Nov 04 2014 03:06 pm

I still stay up late... usually because of work or insomnia (my wife hates
it)... but I never fall asleep to the blinking lights anymore :)

With 2 kids in the house, I've become a night rat. BBSing to me was never a daytime thing, best done in a dark house.

Netflix doesn't help, I've gotten into the habit of serial binge-watching shows at night.

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Poindexter Fortran to Knight on Wed Nov 05 2014 08:36 am

I still stay up late... usually because of work or insomnia (my wife hates
it)... but I never fall asleep to the blinking lights anymore :)

With 2 kids in the house, I've become a night rat. BBSing to me was never a daytime thing, best done in a dark house.

I'm in the same boat. Between running 2 companies (one is my consulting practice) and 2 kids, I really only get any good work done late at night after the kids are tucked away and the wife has fallen asleep. I need quiet.

But because I do so much work at night, it's hard to find enough time for BBSing. I want/need more time to do that :)

Netflix doesn't help, I've gotten into the habit of serial binge-watching shows at night.

Yeah, me too. I'm also in the habit of falling asleep in the wee hours of the morning to NetFlix or YouTube.

Knight

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: nolageek to Mark Hofmann on Sun Nov 02 2014 11:31 pm

I remember falling asleep to the lashing lights and whirring of the hard dri when I had my first board up. I could tell when people were reading message areas or posting just by listing to the hard drive. :) Kinda miss that. :)

Miss those days as well! Weapon of cboice back in those days was Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer ("COCO") that I ran my board on. Had one of those "Plug n' Power" devices connected to it that sends X10 signals through house wiring to turn on appliance receivers. Used it with a string of green Christmas lights above my work area. When callers paged me, it ran a subroutine that activated them. Perfect ambiant light to see the keyboard. Seems so silly now, but thought it was so cool at the time. lol

Cheers,
Misfit

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I still stay up late... usually because of work or insomnia (my wife hates it)... but I never fall asleep to the blinking lights anymore :)

Only reasons I stay up late occationally these days is because of work, too. All the flashing lights and servers are in my basement in a spot under the stairs. The hard drives are the only lights flashing and I would rather not sleep in the basement under the steps, but the server white noise is relaxing. :)
- Mark

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Mark Hofmann to Knight on Sat Nov 08 2014 09:14 pm

under the stairs. The hard drives are the only lights flashing and I would rather not sleep in the basement under the steps, but the server white noise is relaxing. :)

On nights when my wife was away, I'd sleep in the downstairs BBS room/kids play room/home office. hearing the white noise reminds me of when I had the BBS in a studio back in the day. I, too, found the white noise pleasing.

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Re: Re: Greatings from sunny Miami
By: Poindexter Fortran to Mark Hofmann on Mon Nov 10 2014 01:31 pm

On nights when my wife was away, I'd sleep in the downstairs BBS room/kids play room/home office. hearing the white noise reminds me of when I had the BBS in a studio back in the day. I, too, found the white noise pleasing.

These days I put on a frequency with POCSAG on an SDR and enjoy the sweet sounds of 1200 and 9600 baud data packets that are remarkably similar to modem handshakes.

Since you're in my area, tune a scanner, SDR, or ham radio w/ wide receive to 153.834 or so.

Knight

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when I had the BBS in a
studio back in the day. I, too, found the white noise pleasing.

There is plenty of white noise in the data center at my work.

On the occational late night at work doing an upgrade of some sort, I try to stay out of there due to that fact. Makes we want to go to sleep.

- Mark

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