Heh. I used to be the sysop for the MCB BBS fpr almost 9 years. PCBOARD with up to ten users. Those were the days. I miss them. -- charlie Crawford. At 06:29 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote: >Of course I remember most of those pkgs... I've been running a bbs for >over a year now. > >-- >A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up >yours!" >On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Scott Howell wrote: > > > Ah, this reminds me of a very interesting problem I ran into. > > Mind you this is from the days when most chips were socketed and > > actually cost some money. Yes, this was an old 386-SX 25 I was running > > my bbs and Fidonet mail service on. > > I bet some of you remember Fidonet, BinkleyTerm, node lists, RBBS, > > Maximus, Opus, and so on. Hell does anyone remember bonk and the node > > list mungers? > > In any case this old 386 was crankin' for its time, but it had one > > incredibly odd problem. You could put a floppy in, read, copy from it, > > and all that no problem. If you attempted to write to it the trouble > > would start. Files on the disk would disappear or the disk would just > > turn out trashed. Months went by with every possible diagnostic trick > > done and never did find the problem. I ended up deciding it was the DMA > > chip on the board, but never got a chance to replace it. Ended up > > tossing the board or giving it away I can't remember, but upgraded to a > > screamming 386-DX 33. > > And to think I ran that bbs on an AST 286 with 130Mb hd and that was > > considered one of the largest bbs systems in the area. Oh yes screamming > > along at 9600 baud.<grin> > > I've not heard a story yet that has surprised me about hardware > > failures. I can remember when failures were common whereas now they are > > rear. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
