Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-

Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into a working PC... Did it
for family when they needed a new computer. Save them some money; I learned a lot. :-)

Before the days of the $100 HP/Compaq that is...

Yeah, I liked the corner computer stores in San Francisco in the '90s,
they'd build white-box servers and desktops to spec and usually just
charge their usual markup on parts. If you bought a server, you could
buy their burn-in service.

I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to
back then to find a system that Linux supported...



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Foriest Jan Smith wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Yeah. It was the whole addictive nature to it I deeply disliked; the shallow drama... I just had to get off. Now I'm only really on Discord
on servers with people I know, lol. But Discord is going downhill, so
who knows how long I'll stay on there (friends and I have joked about using Slack instead, lmao).

IRC is still IRC...

https://xkcd.com/1782/



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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Jimmy Anderson on Sat May 10 2025 08:24 am

I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to
back then to find a system that Linux supported...

come on dude. no you didn't.
the video card was probably a tricky thing but not everything else.
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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest Jan Smith on Sat May 10 2025 08:24:06

IRC is still IRC...

I actually plan to look into IRC once I figure out how to do it securely--and run an IRC server with friends if it's easy enough to do, securely, without needing too much major kit.

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 10:22:42

Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.

My first build a 486DX, 33mhz system. I remember being nervous as hell, particularly when I was installing the CPU (careful you don't bend the pins, make sure it's oriented correctly, only use a dab of thermal paste!). Once I got past that, everything else was a breeze.

For me, "plug and play" ment plugging the power cord into the wall and praying nothing blew up. When that didn't happen and I heard the "DING" followed by the BIOS msgs, I was thrilled ("Yes! Yes! YEEEESSSS!").

You never forget your first build.

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 17:16:00

...if you want to say something, you have to
SAY something. :-)

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Foriest Jan Smith to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 11 2025 02:06 am

Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest Jan Smith on Sat May 10 2025 08:24:06

IRC is still IRC...

I actually plan to look into IRC once I figure out how to do it securely--and run an IRC server with friends if it's easy enough to do, securely, without needing too much major kit.

okay, listen to the master here.

make sure you only run it ssl and use a very non standard port.

once i did ssl only i really lost all my constant attackers. there's some weird shit out there. there's bot nets and those supernets spammers. there's also this one that goes around and creates bridge via relay bots on other irc networks. i'm not sure if that one is still around.

also if you are running on a hosted server they're probably not going to like that you are running an irc server due to botnets.

it might be better and more fun (media linking) to run a private telegram channel.
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Foriest Jan Smith wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

@MSGID: <681FE9EA.3713.dove-general@enigma-bbs.com>
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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Foriest
Jan Smith on Sat May 10 2025 08:24:06

IRC is still IRC...

I actually plan to look into IRC once I figure out how to do it securely--and run an IRC server with friends if it's easy enough to do, securely, without needing too much major kit.
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I followed the instructions here and got up and running pretty easy.

https://landchad.net/irc/

That site has instructions on how to set up many services, for those
that like to self host.

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Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan
Smith on Fri May 09 2025 10:22:42

Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.

My first build a 486DX, 33mhz system. I remember being nervous as
hell, particularly when I was installing the CPU (careful you don't
bend the pins, make sure it's oriented correctly, only use a dab of thermal paste!). Once I got past that, everything else was a breeze.

For me, "plug and play" ment plugging the power cord into the wall and praying nothing blew up. When that didn't happen and I heard the "DING" followed by the BIOS msgs, I was thrilled ("Yes! Yes! YEEEESSSS!").

You never forget your first build.

No, you don't forget!

I still remember putting it together with friends. It was a Pentium
III equivalent, and we got a shock when the CPU temperature in the
BIOS was reported as 199C!

We immediately turned it off, thinking we had fried the CPU, but it
wasn't that hot? Ahhh, faulty sensor on the motherboard!

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Boraxman to Foriest Jan Smith on Sun May 11 2025 22:15:00

That site has instructions on how to set up
many services, for those that like to self-
host.

That just sounds sooo wroung, LOL!

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Jimmy Anderson wrote to Foriest Jan Smith <=-

Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into a working PC... Did it
for family when they needed a new computer. Save them some money; I learned a lot. :-)

Before the days of the $100 HP/Compaq that is...

Yeah, I liked the corner computer stores in San Francisco in the '90s, they'd build white-box servers and desktops to spec and usually just charge their usual markup on parts. If you bought a server, you could
buy their burn-in service.

You know, I forgot about burn in! :-)

I custom-spec'ed a Pentium from a store and got to select everything
from the number of memory sticks to the brand of video card. Needed to back then to find a system that Linux supported...

Nice! :-)

I liked building my own so I could repair/replace or even upgrade stuff
as needed.


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Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Foriest Jan Smith on Fri May 09 2025 10:22:42

Oh man - I used to LOVE to assemble parts into
a working PC...I learned a lot.

My first build a 486DX, 33mhz system. I remember being nervous as
hell, particularly when I was installing the CPU (careful you don't
bend the pins, make sure it's oriented correctly, only use a dab of thermal paste!). Once I got past that, everything else was a breeze.

ZIF sockets - :-)

For me, "plug and play" ment plugging the power cord into the wall and praying nothing blew up. When that didn't happen and I heard the "DING" followed by the BIOS msgs, I was thrilled ("Yes! Yes! YEEEESSSS!").

LOL

You never forget your first build.

Agreed! And I really do miss those days... Using two HDD's so you had
to use jumpers for 'master' and 'slave.'


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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun May 11 2025 08:12 pm

Nice! :-)

I liked building my own so I could repair/replace or even upgrade stuff
as needed.

i'm past that. i dont even want to open up my case to add new harddrives.
i use a drobo clone.

when my next computer is bought it will be one of those little baby ones and i'll jack everything in via usb. the days of the big cases with the water cooling,etc are gone.
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In 1994 after reading Computer Shopper Magazine and reading about VESA BUS I told the builder of my 486DX33 to get a Orchid Faherinheidt(sp?)
VESA Video Board for it and a BIG 330MB HDD.
(Back then ads for computers had 120 or 220MB HDD's).
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Re: DIYPC
By: Mortar to Jimmy Anderson on Sat May 10 2025 11:37 pm

You never forget your first build.

I did...

however I guess my "first build" was not really a build but rather a modification to my original IBM PC in 1985. I replaced the 8088 CPU with a NEC v20 and replaced one of the full height floppies with a 10mb hard disk and added an AST card to expand the memory to a whopping 640k. What a beast...

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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Mon May 12 2025 07:47 pm

In 1994 after reading Computer Shopper Magazine and reading about VESA BUS I told the builder of my 486DX33 to get a Orchid Faherinheidt(sp?)
VESA Video Board for it and a BIG 330MB HDD.
(Back then ads for computers had 120 or 220MB HDD's).
Ed

i have no idea why you are telling me this.
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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Ed Vance to MRO on Mon May 12 2025 07:47 pm

i have no idea why you are telling me this.
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Again I failed to Quote the post in my Reply to You.

I was writing about what you told Jimmy Anderson about your preference for a new computer would be a tiny one and not being water cooled .
The 486 I was writing about is the only one that I had someone build for me. The other pcs I got were Factory Made.

Ed
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Re: Re: New BBS User!
By: Jimmy Anderson to Misfit on Fri May 09 2025 10:22 am

My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had

Nice to run into another old school CoConut all these years later. :-)
Yeah, I started with a CoCo2 likewise, then by the time I was at the apogee of my coco days I was running a 512K CoCo3, OS9 Level II, and MultiVue. My dream was to add a HDD, but only the super rich could afford them in those days, lol.
So, I just made do with 5.25" swappping. Still, it was pretty cool running a true multi-tasking, windowing, RTOS, on just an 8bit computer! :-)

Cheers!


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Misfit wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

My first computer was a CoCo II, but no modem at the time. :-) I graduated high school in 85 and had had it for a bit before that. My friends had

Nice to run into another old school CoConut all these years later. :-)

LOL - haven't heard or thought of that in a LONG time! :-)

Yeah, I started with a CoCo2 likewise, then by the time I was at the apogee of my coco days I was running a 512K CoCo3, OS9 Level II, and MultiVue. My dream was to add a HDD, but only the super rich could
afford them in those days, lol.

Oh wow! Yeah, you did more than me. :-)

So, I just made do with 5.25" swappping. Still, it was pretty cool running a true multi-tasking, windowing, RTOS, on just an 8bit
computer! :-)

I wasn't multitasking or windowing. :-) The FDD was basically, for me,
a faster cassette. LOL



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