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Ah, you were right in the groove I wanted to be back then with the more modern hw. 14.4 or 33.6 modem?
By the time I upgraded from my XT in early 1998, it was a 386 SX16 with maybe 8mB ram and WFWG 3.11....and NO modem. I picked up a 286 AT from a streetside curb that looked like a bunch of old stuff they were throwing out. The floppy drive would not work, there was no hdd, but it had an old 1200 baud modem stuck in one of the slots, so that became my modem for the 386. I spent the next couple of months ' catching up ' on what BBS's were available (not many) and how to email etc. Back then they sent you an AOL CD like every month with 50 or so free hours on it, and believe it or not, the early aol I think 3.0 loaded up on WFWG 3.11 and the 386, slow with the 1200 modem, but I was like - WOW ! Hearing the guy say "you got mail ' was like the highlight of the day.
When those free hours ran out, I spent lot of time connecting to whatever BBs's I could to learn more about the evolution of the internet. I DL'd 32 bit object length extensions to get it to behave more close to a 486, and there was a terminal called Ripterm that displayed gif's and jpg's I think when you connected to special BBS's. Fidonet was also still up, and I used that alot along with the SBA.GOV (small business administration) which had free access and one free email address they gave you, and you needed a .QWK
type message reader like Uniqwk or Big Blue to read the message posts or read any email. I remember calling lots of BBS numbers during the late evening hours, and many were disconnected or no one answered. One time a woman picked up the phone, and I said, sorry I thought this was a computer I was calling, and she said, 'who is this'?
By the time I upgraded from my XT in early 1998, it was a 386 SX16 with maybe 8mB ram and WFWG 3.11....and NO modem. I picked up a 286 AT from a streetside curb that looked like a bunch of old stuff they were throwing out. The floppy drive would not work, there was no hdd, but it had an old 1200 baud modem stuck in one of the slots, so that became my modem for the 386. I spent the next couple of months ' catching up ' on what BBS's were available (not many) and how to email etc. Back then they sent you an AOL CD like every month with 50 or so free hours on it, and believe it or not, the early aol I think 3.0 loaded up on WFWG 3.11 and the 386, slow with the 1200 modem, but I was like - WOW ! Hearing the guy say "you got mail ' was like the highlight of the day.
When those free hours ran out, I spent lot of time connecting to whatever BBs's I could to learn more about the evolution of the internet. I DL'd 32 bit object length extensions to get it to behave more close to a 486, and there was a terminal called Ripterm that displayed gif's and jpg's I think when you connected to special BBS's. Fidonet was also still up, and I used that alot along with the SBA.GOV (small business administration) which had free access and one free email address they gave you, and you needed a .QWK
type message reader like Uniqwk or Big Blue to read the message posts or read any email. I remember calling lots of BBS numbers during the late evening hours, and many were disconnected or no one answered. One time a woman picked up the phone, and I said, sorry I thought this was a computer I was calling, and she said, 'who is this'?
Originally posted by R00k
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, one of my friends introduced quake to me and told me about quake.mint.net, im thinking it was 96 or 97 something like that..
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