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  • hey i am on a 286 any retro hardare here? <3

    From mary4@21:1/204 to All on Thursday, January 23, 2025 04:23:54
    anyone using retro hardare? <3

    i cant be the onmly retro system on fsx net?

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  • From Bob Worm@21:1/205 to mary4 on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 22:39:22
    Re: hey i am on a 286 any retro hardare here? <3
    By: mary4 to All on Thu Jan 23 2025 04:23:54

    Hi, mary4.

    anyone using retro hardare? <3

    Yup, my daily BBSing machine is an Acorn A3020 - absolutely love it. Ironically I didn't get on with the terminal software I could find for it so I wrote my own - it runs full screen and uses a ROM-dumped VGA CP437 font so I could just as well be BBSing on an old PC... But the keyboard is lovely and it makes a beautiful pan pipe "hoob" sound instead of the PC speaker beep :)

    I also have a BBC micro but that's a bit too limited for all-the-time BBSing. It's mildly exciting visiting BBC based BBSes with it as it has its own way of doing colours and a slightly different character set - you get quite a distinctive experience. It can do 80 cols but only in mono, so not ideal.

    The only time I use modern hardware to BBS is a) on holiday or b) to visit PETSCII boards. And, of course, I use MuffinTerm for that so the experience is still surprisingly authentic.

    BobW
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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to mary4 on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 16:12:58
    anyone using retro hardare? <3

    i cant be the onmly retro system on fsx net?

    At times I dial in on a few systems I have setup and running;

    Apple II
    Dolch PAC 60 486/66
    Windows XP Dell Laptop
    (I sold BOTH my C= systems. :( )
    ... and a few others; Atari 600, 286 monochrome laptop, etc.

    :P I'm not as cool as you ALWAYS calling from my retro's, but I join you a few times a week!!



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  • From slacker@21:3/193 to mary4 on Thursday, January 23, 2025 05:26:10


    anyone using retro hardare? <3

    i cant be the onmly retro system on
    fsx net?

    I'm here with my Atari 800XL that I usually use for BBSing. I'm not sure how many Atari 8-bit ATASCII boards besides mine are hooked up to fsxnet...

    I also use my 486 which I've had since new for BBSing on ANSI boards.



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  • From Utopian Galt@21:4/108 to Mary4 on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 21:55:33
    BY: mary4 (21:1/204)

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    I would love to use retro hardware, maybe an old macintosh. That would be dreamy.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Utopian Galt on Thursday, January 23, 2025 07:54:44
    Utopian Galt wrote to Mary4 <=-

    I would love to use retro hardware, maybe an old macintosh. That would
    be dreamy.

    A Mac IIci, maxxed out with 12 MB of RAM. Cache card and external video
    card. Internal 80mb drive, external 1GB SCSI drive. 14" Sony CRT, Apple Extended keyboard and mouse.

    That was my daily driver for years, outlasted others who moved onto
    Quadras. It never crashed and just did what it was told the entire
    time. Loved that machine.

    If I ever went retro, that's the machine I'd get. Unless I had the desk
    space for a IIfx. :)



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  • From goto_KCM@21:1/218 to mary4 on Thursday, January 30, 2025 14:02:55
    No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

    Regards
    Andreas

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  • From Davenar@21:1/141 to mary4 on Sunday, February 02, 2025 14:21:01
    a hot-rodded Apple IIgs right now, but I have several other ancient computers that I use as well.

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  • From StormTrooper@21:2/108 to Davenar on Tuesday, February 04, 2025 04:26:28
    She a rom1 or a rom3?

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  • From Ed Vance@21:1/175 to goto_KCM on Saturday, February 08, 2025 18:25:39

    No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

    Regards
    Andreas

    ... Kautzner Computer Museum - https://kcm.or.at

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    I looked at kcm.or.at .
    The Cookie popup showed up and I had no idea whether to click the top Bar or the bottom Bar to accept Cookies.

    Is English an option on the Museum?
    Thank You.
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  • From Roon@21:4/148 to Ed Vance on Sunday, February 09, 2025 06:59:08
    Hello Ed,

    08 Feb 25 18:25, you wrote to goto_KCM:

    No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to
    connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11
    Microcomputer.

    Regards
    Andreas

    ... Kautzner Computer Museum - https://kcm.or.at

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    I looked at kcm.or.at .
    The Cookie popup showed up and I had no idea whether to click the top
    Bar or the bottom Bar to accept Cookies.

    alle akzeptieren => accept all
    weiter ohne einwillung => decline

    Is English an option on the Museum?

    Andreas is writing in english, so i guess it's possible, but you have to contact them before you go as they are not open in fixed times (i just read it from the website myself) :)

    ByEbYe
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    Daniel

    telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

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  • From mary4@21:1/204 to goto_KCM on Monday, February 10, 2025 15:11:27
    No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect
    to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

    NICE!! i love the amigas they are amazing machines
    !! <3

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  • From mary4@21:1/204 to Davenar on Monday, February 10, 2025 15:13:30
    a hot-rodded Apple IIgs right now, but I have several other ancient computers that I use as well.

    DUDE APPLE ][GS!!!! FDSANSADHDASHASDJKLA;MKLS I AM JEALOUS! I WANT ONE TOO!
    <3 tell me about your ancient computers!! i am on my custom built 1991 286
    with 25MHz 286 and 16 mb of XMS and 2mb of EMS memory cfdjfjdskjl;dkfkla dude thats so cool!! <3

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  • From mary4@21:1/204 to Ed Vance on Monday, February 10, 2025 15:14:55
    No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

    i forgot to fan girl here the amiga is PREAK MULTI MEDIA AMAZINGNESS!! FDSKJASDFJSD;FSAKFLK <3

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