Replies to post #13515 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

John and I were just talking the other day (while we were on our way to the ISP with a pair of IBM 80-gig hard drives) about the weird hard-drive setup I had on my board for a long time. Of course, storage was a huge problem for BBSes and users alike in those days, but worse for BBSes.

I ran it for a while on a pair of 40-meg MFM drives and a Perstor controller, for 160 meg of capacity. That was huge then.

When I shut the board down, it had a pair of 9-gig SCSI drives, a couple of 1-gig IDE's, and CD jukeboxes totalling 24 CDs available online. My site had, by far, the largest filebase in the KC area, and one of the largest in the US at that time. Had a lot of local computer shops as subscribers because they knew they could always find whatever drivers they needed (remember drivers? <g>).

Still have at least one of those jukeboxes; maybe both.

[The Original dpb5!]

I still have my TRS80 Model 1.

The 4K Wonder!

I paid $549 for it at Radio Shack so I could play PONG.

Later on I bought a modem for around $100?? and got hooked to Compuserve.

It used to take up to two minutes to receive an answer back on a BBS (or was it a Compuserve "chat line"?). Too long ago to remember it all, but some of the memories are incredible.

When a boy, I remember my Grandpa talking about owning his first Model T "AUTOMOBILE". It sorta feels like that. LOL!