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  • Re: Night Owl

    From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to Kurt Weiske on Wed Apr 13 20:19:19 2022
    |03Quoting message from |11Kurt Weiske |03to |11Kevin Nunn
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 07:08:00|03.

    Kevin Nunn wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    Oh the excitement of putting a Night Owl CD online for the BBS. Uber Leet!

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h I wanted that back in the day...



    yeah, i wanted one too. i was so pathetic!

    ... Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours.

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to Kevin Nunn on Wed Apr 13 20:20:01 2022
    |03Quoting message from |11Kevin Nunn |03to |11Dan Clough
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 15:21:18|03.

    DAN CLOUGH wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

    Having 5 CDROMs online was really a nice thing back in those days. T "swimsuit GIFs" were very popular... LOL

    Oh those were popular. I remember having a file transfer program that
    would show the images as they came in. That was so cool. Can't remember
    the name of it though.


    i think qmodem for windows did it. is that a nipple or elbow?
    time will tell.

    ... Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fool... - King Lear

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to T.J. Mcmillen on Wed Apr 13 20:20:50 2022
    |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Kurt Weiske
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 16:27|03.

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h I wanted that back in the day...

    I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in hay day. That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 disc online at once.

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.



    yeah but most of those cds were all junk and the same stuff over and over again. then they were filled with cruddy shareware.

    ... Whips & chains? Sorry, thats a hardware problem.

    --- Renegade v1.30r3/Exp
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  • From Glenn Rossi@1:275/301 to Jas Hud on Wed Apr 13 22:30:48 2022
    On 4/13/2022 4:20 PM, Jas Hud wrote:
    |03Quoting message from |11T.J. Mcmillen |03to |11Kurt Weiske
    |03on |1113 Apr 22 16:27|03.

    We had a system at work with one of those CDROM changers - it was the size
    of a 5 1/4" full-height drive and had a cartridge that took 5 disks. Oh, h
    I wanted that back in the day...

    I had 2 of those, 2 hard drives and 4 panasonic cd-roms in my BBS tower in
    hay day. That was 4 discs online, plus the 2 4 disc changers, made 8 disc
    online at once.

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online at times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.



    yeah but most of those cds were all junk and the same stuff over and over again. then they were filled with cruddy shareware.

    ... Whips & chains? Sorry, thats a hardware problem.

    --- Renegade v1.30r3/Exp
    * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)

    Imagine this monstrosity... at one point I had a dual SCSI controller
    with 2 5-disc changers and 8 single drive CD-ROMs. All external. What
    a cabling nightmare. Internally there were 2 IDE 500MB drives and 2 1GB
    SCSI drives. I also had a pair of glacier-slow 2GB "tape-disk" drives.

    Needless to say, free drive letters were scarce.

    I had an IDE CD Changer that held 3 discs, but it was always jamming up.
    --- SBBSecho 3.10-Win32
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Kevin Nunn on Thu Apr 14 07:07:00 2022
    Kevin Nunn wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    One of my OS/2 clients who was a CPA had all those CPA books on
    CD/PDF and he had a big CD changer to handle that stuff. I drooled over
    it everytime I was at his place. That was in the 90s.

    When I was a telecom manager, I would have loved to have all of the Northern Telecom PBX documentation in a changer. The NTPs, as they called them, originally came in a dozen or so spiral bound books, and later on a handful
    of CDs.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to T.J. Mcmillen on Thu Apr 14 07:20:00 2022
    T.J. Mcmillen wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    Now that I just downloaded the images, I have 152 shareware CDs online
    at all times. I wish I had this kinda space back in the 90s.

    You and me both. I keep thinking about all of the messages that have gone since 1988, when I started running BBSes instead of calling them. I was a co-sysop for a BBS, and managed a handful of networked bases. Started my own BBS in 1991.

    We were a bunch of naive kids, and we learned about life as we went, and documented our lives on the BBSes like a community journal.

    We had a couple of people go through their first big romances on the BBS,
    and their first breakups. Callers dating callers. Callers breaking up with callers. First jobs. First firings. Many other firsts.

    The text file writers went through a Hunter S. Thompson phase in the early '90s, I'd love to revisit those messages.

    Back then, I had 3 32mb hard drives, then a 120, then a 320. Would have
    been great to be able to afford historical backups. As it is, I have one partial backup from 1994 and one from 1999.




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