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    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Tony Langdon on Sunday, April 22, 2018 18:13:54
    Re: Re: Syncterm packages
    By: Tony Langdon to Dmxrob on Sun Apr 22 2018 07:40 pm

    Dmxrob wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Seems like only yesterday I was booting up to the then new MS-DOS 2.11 on my Tandy 1000HX

    I wouldn't say that, but time does fly when you're having fun. I had a Tandy 000 once. Was a reliable machine.


    i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.
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  • From Dmxrob@VERT/GUARDIAN to MRO on Sunday, April 22, 2018 19:22:56
    Re: tandy
    By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Sun Apr 22 2018 06:13 pm

    I wouldn't say that, but time does fly when you're having fun. I had a Tandy 000 once. Was a reliable machine.
    i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.

    They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate, their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the time, very pioneering.

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  • From Marisag@VERT to MRO on Monday, April 23, 2018 06:03:52
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    To: MRO
    Re: tandy
    By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Sun Apr 22 2018 18:13:54

    I have a website for those old 8bit (and some 16bit) servers at https://8bits.amigacity.xyz - looking for new members...

    Marisa
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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to MRO on Monday, April 23, 2018 16:24:00
    MRO wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.

    They were expensive, but the quality was there, at least.


    ... Just my opinion (but I'm right!).
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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Dmxrob on Monday, April 23, 2018 16:45:00
    Dmxrob wrote to MRO <=-

    They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate,

    Yes, the sound and graphics were ahead of other IBM clones. I had almost forgotten about that. :) The graphics was also better behaved than a lot of CGA boards of the day, not creating "snow" when you directly wrote to display RAM, unlike "real" CGA boards. In those days, directly writing to the display hardware was used to optimise speed.

    their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the
    time, very pioneering.

    I didn't use Deskmate a lot, because I was already an old hand DOS user who had graduated from CP/M. :)


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  • From Dmxrob@VERT/GUARDIAN to Tony Langdon on Monday, April 23, 2018 18:39:43
    Re: Re: tandy
    By: Tony Langdon to Dmxrob on Mon Apr 23 2018 04:45 pm

    I didn't use Deskmate a lot, because I was already an old hand DOS user who had graduated from CP/M. :)

    Deskmate had its heyday, and the Deskmate runtime even powered the original version of AOL (called PC-LINK). I think if Windows had not come along when it did, Deskmate would have continued on. Just Tandy got themselves into this corner they couldn't get out of -- and of course, today, all of Radio Shack is history :-(


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Dmxrob on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 12:36:00
    Dmxrob wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Deskmate had its heyday, and the Deskmate runtime even powered the original version of AOL (called PC-LINK). I think if Windows had not

    Interesting, well over here, AOL didn't come along until the Windows era, but they never gained traction.

    come along when it did, Deskmate would have continued on. Just Tandy
    got themselves into this corner they couldn't get out of -- and of
    course, today, all of Radio Shack is history :-(

    Yes, trends and technology moved on. And Radio Shack is gone, Tandy is gone, and in Australia, Tandy's last buyer - Dick Smith is also gone. Dick Smith were a great eleectronics and ham radio store in the 70s - 90s, then they decided to move into consumer electronics and drop the hobbyist lines, which alienated much of their customer base, and it was downhill from there. :(


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  • From Hawkeye@VERT/MASHBBS to Dmxrob on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:49:34
    Re: tandy
    By: Dmxrob to MRO on Sun Apr 22 2018 19:22:56

    They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate, their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the time, very pioneering.

    For this reason I sometimes use my Commodore Amiga 2000... a wonder machine for that time, now my mobile phone is more powerful, but fun to see where we came from and where we are today.

    HAWKEYE

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to MOJO on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 21:44:00
    QEMM I remember that i used that al the time for my bbs back in the day befor M>thwe internet.

    Oh, the memories...

    Ain't it the truth?? And, when you had a 9600 or 1440 baud modem
    before anyone else, you thought "you were smokin'"!! <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Static@VERT to Daryl Stout on Thursday, April 26, 2018 01:16:15
    On 04/25/18, Daryl Stout said the following...

    Ain't it the truth?? And, when you had a 9600 or 1440 baud modem
    before anyone else, you thought "you were smokin'"!! <G>

    That feeling wore of pretty quickly after realizing there was nobody else to connect to at that speed yet.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to STATIC on Thursday, April 26, 2018 09:33:00
    Ain't it the truth?? And, when you had a 9600 or 1440 baud modem before anyone else, you thought "you were smokin'"!! <G>

    That feeling wore of pretty quickly after realizing there was nobody else to S>connect to at that speed yet.

    Yeah, that's true...but it didn't take long for folks to upgrade.

    Years ago, when we had BBS user/Sysop gatherings in the Little Rock
    area...at that time, there were at least a dozen BBS's in the area. Now, there's 2 BBS's in Little Rock, and one in Mayflower, about 18 miles
    northwest of Little Rock.

    But, we'd have a large contingent of users and Sysops there (several
    Sysops would process prospective users on the spot...and the adult BBS
    Sysops (there were 2 in the area) carding potential uers.

    Yet, the one moment I remember, is where a former Sysop (I think he
    died a few years ago), broke out a fancy new laptop computer at the
    table. The conversation STOPPED, and all eyes gravitated to his new
    "toy", as if to say "Wow!!". :)

    Daryl

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Daryl Stout on Thursday, April 26, 2018 09:41:07
    Re: Re: BBS Memories
    By: Daryl Stout to STATIC on Thu Apr 26 2018 09:33 am

    Years ago, when we had BBS user/Sysop gatherings in the Little Rock area...at that time, there were at least a dozen BBS's in the area. Now, there's 2 BBS's in Little Rock, and one in Mayflower, about 18 miles northwest of Little Rock.

    I'm Fido RC10 for California and Nevada, living out along the coast, and curiously, I have a couple of sysops within a few miles of me. You'd think they'd be a little more spread out.

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  • From Daryl Stout@VERT/TBOLT to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Thursday, April 26, 2018 17:34:00
    I'm Fido RC10 for California and Nevada, living out along the coast, and PF>curiously, I have a couple of sysops within a few miles of me. You'd think PF>they'd be a little more spread out.

    I have a bulletin on my BBS with "long gone central Arkansas BBS's".
    One that had shut down several years back has come back online...but
    mine is the "longest running". Now, there were times it was down for maintenance, hardware upgrades, power/internet outages, and weather (thunderstorms can be real numerous in Arkansas at times during the
    year)...but at least it's still around.

    Every so often, another area BBS Sysop and I will gather at a local restaurant for lunch for a time of food and fellowship. But, with work schedules, it's hard to find a good day and time.

    Daryl

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