Howard, I always spelled Packard-Bell like this: T-R-A-S-H On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Howard Coles wrote:
> I used a BBS on the early nineties (93 I think it was) called Stinger. I > still have the "dhcolesj" at stinger dot org address. My first PC was an IBM > clone 8086 with DOS 3.3 and a 32 Meg hard drive. And, I upgraded it to DOS > 5. My first modem was a 9600 baud Internal that came with my shiny new 286 > packard-bell. (Can't remember if that's the right spelling or not). > > See ya' > Howard Coles Jr. > John 3:16! > > Choose Life! > > >> On Feb 6, 2010 7:04 PM, "Howard White" <how...@usit.net> wrote: >> >> David R. Wilson wrote: >> My first computer was the Apple II. I found it had 3 programs on the >> disk I wrote for a mainframe when I was in High School (in 1972). >> That was around 1979. It had 48K of memory and I purchased one of the >> floppy drives and a Micromodem (110 / 300 baud) almost as soon as they >> were available. Cliff ought to chime in about now with some tales of >> Cromemco, Pet, and other boxes he adopted at about that time >> frame :-). >> >> My turn to speak up :) >> >> I've had this email address since 1996. I moved to my present address in >> January of that year. When I called BellSouth to establish voice service, >> the order taker told me that calls to Nashville would be local. We had been >> living in Hopkinsville, KY where there were no local points of presence by >> which to connect to the internet. Who'd a thunk my moving from Hopkinsville >> (population 25K or so) to Cedar Hill TN (population 250; 500 if Jo Byrns has >> a home football game) would gain me access to the internet! >> >> My first computer was an Apple ][+ with the language expansion (bumped >> memory to 64K). Shortly thereafter I got a 5mb Corvus harddisk. Ran Pascal >> and connected to "The Source" with the Hayes 300 baud modem. Never really >> did any email. Did "surf" a few bulletin boards as well. When I got my >> first IBM PC XT, I gave the Apple ][ to my in-laws and they used it for >> several years. When I upgraded the in-laws to a Windows PC, I took the >> Apple ][ back and it sits in my basement as we type along with an Apple ][e >> I got from Sean Jewitt (many remember his area 51 storage space full of old >> crap; my getting the Apple ][e predates area 51). I have since acquired a >> SCSI interface card that allows me to hang a hard disk on the Apple ][ >> computers. I only have drivers for ProDOS of which I have no use. Would >> really love to find how to get a driver to allow me to run the Pascal system >> on the SCSI interface. >> >> Back to email. My first extensive use of email was at Consilium, Inc. in >> the late 1980s. They had a cluster of seven MicroVax computers. Two >> guesses what the system names were. We used whatever mail program was in >> VMS. Somebody wrote a program to look at the inbox of whatever user to see >> how many unread messages said user had. My boss routinely had 700 or 800 >> unread messages. Part of the culture problem was that somebody would send >> an email to four or five people. Each of them would take pieces of that >> email, add more and then each would send that on to four or five _new_ >> people as well as the first four or five. The term factorial springs to >> mind... >> >> Howard White >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
