• Testing

    From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to All on Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:24:00
    Testing connection. Please respond.

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  • From Mordor@VERT to Gryphon on Friday, December 19, 2014 10:32:23
    Re: Testing
    By: Gryphon to All on Thu Dec 18 2014 11:24 am

    Testing connection. Please respond.

    Yep. Got it here in Brisbane Australia.

    Jeff

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  • From Gryphon@VERT/CYBERIA to Mordor on Friday, December 19, 2014 16:05:00
    On 12/19/14, Mordor said the following...

    Re: Testing
    By: Gryphon to All on Thu Dec 18 2014 11:24 am

    Testing connection. Please respond.

    Yep. Got it here in Brisbane Australia.

    Jeff

    Cool. Thanks.

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  • From Jahmas@VERT/JAHMAS to All on Thursday, May 28, 2015 17:50:00
    I just configured Mystic for DoveNet and was able to download some messages.
    I am wondering if the outbound is working now. With regards

    Jahmas

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  • From Underminer@VERT/UNDRMINE to Jahmas on Thursday, May 28, 2015 19:22:13
    Re: Testing
    By: Jahmas to All on Thu May 28 2015 17:50:00

    I just configured Mystic for DoveNet and was able to download some messages. I am wondering if the outbound is working now. With regards Jahmas
    Looks good from here.
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  • From Mark Hofmann@VERT/TCP to Jahmas on Friday, May 29, 2015 09:57:27
    I just configured Mystic for DoveNet and was able to download some
    messages. I am wondering if the outbound is working now. With regards

    Looks like it is working.. Welcome!

    - Mark

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  • From Jahmas@VERT/JAHMAS to Mark Hofmann on Friday, May 29, 2015 17:24:00
    Hey Mark! I have had this Mystic sitting on the back burner for a couple of months as we discussed in the WWIVnet forum. Leslie Given showed me how to configure the script to install DoveNet. It didn't work at first and I
    looked into the config plumbing and saw that it needed some tweaking and then it works. I'm delighted.

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  • From Mark Hofmann@VERT/TCP to Jahmas on Saturday, May 30, 2015 13:15:41
    Hey Mark! I have had this Mystic sitting on the back burner for a couple
    of months as we discussed in the WWIVnet forum. Leslie Given showed me how to configure the script to install DoveNet. It didn't work at first and I looked into the config plumbing and saw that it needed some tweaking and then it works. I'm delighted.

    I had did a bit of testing my Mystic myself awhile back. I wouldn't mind running it as a second BBS, but one is enough for the time being.

    - Mark

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  • From thumper@VERT/THEWASTE to All on Wednesday, December 06, 2017 15:38:46
    Well, after a computer fried, I'm now having to run Synchronet under
    VirtualBox and having a few issues. Testing to see if this works and gets through.

    -=Thumper=-
    Sysop
    The Wastelands BBS
    Copperopolis, CA.

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  • From jagossel@VERT/KK4QBN to thumper on Wednesday, December 06, 2017 20:31:27
    Re: Testing
    By: thumper to All on Wed Dec 06 2017 15:38:46

    Well, after a computer fried, I'm now having to run Synchronet under VirtualBox and having a few issues. Testing to see if this works and gets through.

    It came tgrough here! ... Like everything did.

    -jag
    Code it, script it, automate it!

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to All on Saturday, June 27, 2020 11:50:00
    Testing gating from Mystic QWK to Telegard FTN.

    Jay

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Warpslide on Saturday, June 27, 2020 11:44:51
    Re: Testing
    By: Warpslide to All on Sat Jun 27 2020 11:50 am

    Testing gating from Mystic QWK to Telegard FTN.

    I see your message here. Cool to see a Telegard BBS around.

    Nightfox

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  • From Scott Styles@VERT/SLIPSTRM to ALL on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 21:07:00
    Testing Network tag and origin line... it does not seem to be working.

    Scott
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  • From styles@VERT to Scott Styles on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 18:13:51
    Seems to be fixed now :)

    Cheers,
    Scott

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Scott Styles on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 21:14:00
    On 14 Jul 2021, Scott Styles said the following...

    Testing Network tag and origin line... it does not seem to be working.

    Scott
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    Working this time! :)


    Jay

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  • From Captain Kiwi@VERT/BLACKSUN to All on Thursday, August 26, 2021 01:28:00
    Setting up DOVE-Net on my Mystic board. Hopefully this works out. :D

    CK
  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Captain Kiwi on Thursday, August 26, 2021 07:56:00
    On 26 Aug 2021, Captain Kiwi said the following...

    Setting up DOVE-Net on my Mystic board. Hopefully this works out. :D

    Got you here, but your message doesn't have a tear or origin line. Make sure your message base is set to "Echomail" or "Networked" and they'll be added.


    Jay

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  • From Ennev@VERT/MTLGEEK to Captain Kiwi on Thursday, August 26, 2021 08:39:55
    On 2021-08-25 9:28 p.m., Captain Kiwi wrote:
    Setting up DOVE-Net on my Mystic board. Hopefully this works out. :D

    CK


    It does :-)

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  • From Brian Rogers@VERT/CARNAGE to Captain Kiwi on Thursday, August 26, 2021 10:42:00
    Captain Kiwi wrote to All <=-

    Setting up DOVE-Net on my Mystic board. Hopefully this works out. :D

    CK

    I received it here but your various infolines aren't showing. I fully quoted what I received.

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  • From Snow Panther@VERT/PCAVEBBS to All on Saturday, September 18, 2021 03:48:24
    New BBS testing outgoing messages.

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  • From Warpslide@VERT/NRBBS to Snow Panther on Saturday, September 18, 2021 11:18:00
    On 18 Sep 2021, Snow Panther said the following...

    @QSRC VERT
    New BBS testing outgoing messages.

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    Got you here.


    Jay

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  • From Hexabit@VERT/CODELAND to Snow Panther on Saturday, September 18, 2021 19:55:49
    Re: Testing
    By: Snow Panther to All on Sat Sep 18 2021 03:48:24

    New BBS testing outgoing messages.


    Read you loud and clear here in Sweden. :D

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  • From Mickey@VERT/MICKEY to Snow Panther on Saturday, September 18, 2021 22:12:00
    On 18 Sep 2021, Snow Panther said the following...

    New BBS testing outgoing messages.

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    Got you up here in remote Canada. Welcome. :-)

    Mick Manning
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Snow Panther on Saturday, September 18, 2021 22:45:04
    Re: Testing
    By: Snow Panther to All on Sat Sep 18 2021 03:48 am

    New BBS testing outgoing messages.

    use the sysop echo for that. that's how it's normally done.
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  • From Brian Rogers@VERT/CARNAGE to Snow Panther on Sunday, September 19, 2021 08:55:00
    Hello Snow Panther;

    Snow Panther wrote to All <=-

    New BBS testing outgoing messages.

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    I got you here in New England

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  • From Grud@VERT/PHASED to Mickey on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:57:00
    Wow, GOPHER... Haven't thought about that in years..!

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  • From Mickey@VERT/MICKEY to Grud on Wednesday, September 22, 2021 19:38:00
    On 22 Sep 2021, Grud said the following...

    Wow, GOPHER... Haven't thought about that in years..!

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    Yup. Never give up. Kinda like bbsing. :-)

    Mick Manning
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Grud on Thursday, September 23, 2021 02:59:37
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: Grud to Mickey on Wed Sep 22 2021 10:57 am

    Wow, GOPHER... Haven't thought about that in years..!

    yep back in the day i used gopher all the time.
    i really had to work to get my bbs files.
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  • From Grud@VERT/PHASED to MRO on Thursday, September 30, 2021 10:16:00
    yep back in the day i used gopher all the time.
    i really had to work to get my bbs files.

    I remember using Gopher, IRC, Usenet. The web came along and having a "shell account" enabled you to use Lynx browser and the like to do WWW in text. Fun stuff.

    Oh and SLIP on dialup with winsock on windows 3.1

    The bad old days. I would say BBSes have actually aged pretty well.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Grud on Thursday, September 30, 2021 11:05:31
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: Grud to MRO on Thu Sep 30 2021 10:16 am

    I remember using Gopher, IRC, Usenet. The web came along and having a "shell account" enabled you to use Lynx browser and the like to do WWW in text. Fun stuff.

    I didn't use a shell account very often, but I liked having one. One thing I found is that if my download speed was slow for a certain site, sometimes I'd get on my ISP shell account and download the file there (which would usually go faster), and then I'd download the file from my ISP space.

    It seems funny to think that there used to be shell accounts offered with internet service. These days, I think most people wouldn't know what to do with a shell account.

    Nightfox

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  • From Grud@VERT/PHASED to Nightfox on Friday, October 01, 2021 14:43:00
    With a shell account you could run all the cool IRCII scripts like LiCe.

    It was pretty damn hard to run your own Linux distro back then, like say Slackware.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Nightfox on Friday, October 01, 2021 06:09:00
    Nightfox wrote to Grud <=-

    It seems funny to think that there used to be shell accounts offered
    with internet service. These days, I think most people wouldn't know
    what to do with a shell account.

    Around 1994/1995, the cutting-edge BBSers discovered shell accounts, usenet, MUDs, and FTP repositories in obscure countries. Trek Filk written in Esperanto, that kind of stuff.




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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, October 02, 2021 21:28:24
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Oct 01 2021 06:09 am

    It seems funny to think that there used to be shell accounts offered
    with internet service. These days, I think most people wouldn't
    know what to do with a shell account.

    When I got my 1st Internet account in 95 it was a shell account with a company called Xmission, then I bought an Internet phonebook so I could get to websites.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Denn on Sunday, October 03, 2021 08:04:00
    Denn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    When I got my 1st Internet account in 95 it was a shell account with a company called Xmission, then I bought an Internet phonebook so I could get to websites.

    Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, October 06, 2021 12:39:36
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Denn on Sun Oct 03 2021 08:04 am

    Denn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    When I got my 1st Internet account in 95 it was a shell account with a company called Xmission, then I bought an Internet phonebook so I could get to websites.

    Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

    What is that?

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vlk-451 on Friday, October 08, 2021 06:48:00
    Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

    What is that?

    Netcom was a shell provider - you'd dial into a *nix shell. Not sure what
    they used back then...

    You'd have Elm and PINE for email, tin for news, and gopher clients. And
    FTP. A tilde web space if you were lucky (http://netcom.com/~username)


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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, October 08, 2021 20:52:47
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Fri Oct 08 2021 06:48 am

    Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

    What is that?

    Netcom was a shell provider - you'd dial into a *nix shell. Not sure what they used back then...

    You'd have Elm and PINE for email, tin for news, and gopher clients. And FTP. A tilde web space if you were lucky (http://netcom.com/~username)

    ICG becomes Level 3, someone aquired someone else and it all became something else at some point.

    þ Crystal Palace, Orbitsville þ

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  • From Vlk-451@VERT/INREALM to poindexter FORTRAN on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 21:52:19
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vlk-451 on Fri Oct 08 2021 06:48 am

    Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Around here, all the cool kids had @netcom.com accounts, and that became a requirement for cool.

    What is that?

    Netcom was a shell provider - you'd dial into a *nix shell. Not sure what they used back then...

    You'd have Elm and PINE for email, tin for news, and gopher clients. And FTP. A tilde web space if you were lucky (http://netcom.com/~username)

    *nix as in Unix/Linux, or something else entirely? Sounds like they get a fair bit set up for you, especially if they provided a web space.

    þ Crystal Palace, Orbitsville þ

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Vlk-451 on Thursday, October 21, 2021 06:27:00
    Vlk-451 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    *nix as in Unix/Linux, or something else entirely? Sounds like they get
    a fair bit set up for you, especially if they provided a web space.

    *nix was a term from back then for a Unix/Linux system, basically a POSIX environment to bang on...


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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to All on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 20:10:06
    This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and ended up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system disks for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation device on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

    Hope you are all doing well!

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Andeddu on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 01:51:00
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to All on Tue Jan 25 2022 08:10 pm

    This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and end up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system di for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation devi on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

    Hope you are all doing well!

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy
    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial
    is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 21:13:12
    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

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  • From Lux@VERT/T0KERZ to Andeddu on Thursday, January 27, 2022 00:02:48
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

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  • From Lux@VERT/T0KERZ to Andeddu on Thursday, January 27, 2022 00:10:40
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.
    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

    I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img.
    The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS you can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

    Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 06:55:00
    Moondog wrote to Andeddu <=-

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)


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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, January 27, 2022 13:24:09
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
    A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

    I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Thursday, January 27, 2022 23:28:42
    Re: Re: Testing
    By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 27 2022 01:24 pm

    Re: Re: Testing
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
    floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
    A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

    That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

    I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.


    then one disk was bad!
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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Andeddu on Saturday, January 29, 2022 14:23:00
    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

    Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary d is used to change disk images.

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than t device I am currently using.

    Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features. Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
    I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy
    would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

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  • From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to Lux on Saturday, January 29, 2022 14:31:00
    Re: Testing
    By: Lux to Andeddu on Thu Jan 27 2022 12:10 am

    Re: Testing
    By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

    bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotar

    It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.
    That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper tha the device I am currently using.

    I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img. The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS y can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

    Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D


    Another option you can try is finding a stand alone IDE controller with it's own BIOs configuration. You would go in your motherboard BIOS, and shut off the hard drives. When the pc boots, a prompt will pop up from the controller card asking to press a key to set up, then show which drives it detects.
    That is how the SCSI drives used to connect. You might be able to get away with a CF-IDE adapter with an IDE card

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  • From Andeddu@VERT/AMSTRAD to Moondog on Monday, January 31, 2022 01:30:32
    Re: Testing
    By: Moondog to Andeddu on Sat Jan 29 2022 02:23 pm

    Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features.
    Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
    I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

    Cheers, I'll look into it. I have been interested in floppy disk emulators as floppy disk drives themselves are fragile and don't tend to survive long periods in storage. I have a bunch with damaged mechanisms and broken gears that require a lot of TLC which can be time consuming.

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  • From Charon@VERT/RIVERSTY to All on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 21:32:00
    Good evening!

    Testing out the sub.

    Charon

    ... A Skydiver is taken by the gravity of his situation.
  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to Charon on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 19:07:00
    On 17 May 2023, Charon said the following...

    Testing out the sub.

    Looks pretty darn good to me, nes-pa?


    Mickey
    http://centralontarioremote.com

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to CHARON on Thursday, May 18, 2023 18:18:00
    Good evening!

    Testing out the sub.

    Charon

    ... A Skydiver is taken by the gravity of his situation.

    Looks like maybe your origin line is missing?


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  • From Luis Silva@VERT/MSMACBBS to all on Friday, August 11, 2023 19:16:06
    Hi Everyone

    Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
    Testing

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  • From Ewing@VERT/MORTAL to Luis Silva on Saturday, August 12, 2023 11:49:52
    Re: Testing
    By: Luis Silva to all on Fri Aug 11 2023 07:16 pm

    Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
    Testing

    Got you here in Australia :)

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  • From Luis Silva@VERT/MSMACBBS to Ewing on Saturday, August 12, 2023 14:06:47
    Txs for the reply

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