Opening an Overwhelming Number of Retro Tech Packages!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Larry
The Bread Board System (TBBS) is a multiline MS-DOS based commercial bulletin board system software package written in 1983 by Philip L. Becker.
He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen.
Mr. Becker said he could do better and founded eSoft, Inc. in 1984 based on the strength of TBBS sales.
WBCN-terface 617-424-6822 Ethylnet Videotext (1983-1985)
-WBCN was always the most progressive radio station in the city of Boston.
They were the first radio station to allow callers to dial into their mainframe and leave feedback about their various radio shows and various on the air personalities.
A full decade before the advent of the World Wide Web, the WBCN-terface allowed consumers to provide direct public electronic feedback to a commercial enterprise. - - Winston Smith
Boston Computer Society 617-237-3750 BCSnet Host (1984-1987)
-This was a 6-line installation running on an IBM PC XT machine using an Alloy Computer Products extension system unit that contained 6 different computers. Each computer was a single board containing CPU, memory, serial ports, etc. (What were later to be called -blades-) All the comuters shared the same hard drive and message base.
-This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in continuous operation. It supported a community of IBM PC users for the Boston COmputer Society which had approximately 42, 000 members at its peak.
-Most of the time the system was operational it ran out of a closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my residence at the time.
-It took some convincing to talk the phone company into installing 6 residential phone lines into one location. They thought I was running a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr campus that he could use for these lines. We spent several hours tracing through the basements of buildings until we found the connections we used.
-While running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched to TBBS when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into the Boston Computer Society offices near Davis Square. The system was later moved to Waltham, MA when the entire BCS offices moved there. - - Doug Chamberlin
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The Bread Board System (TBBS) is a multiline MS-DOS based commercial bulletin board system software package written in 1983 by Philip L. Becker.
He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen.
Mr. Becker said he could do better and founded eSoft, Inc. in 1984 based on the strength of TBBS sales.
WBCN-terface 617-424-6822 Ethylnet Videotext (1983-1985)
-WBCN was always the most progressive radio station in the city of Boston.
They were the first radio station to allow callers to dial into their mainframe and leave feedback about their various radio shows and various on the air personalities.
A full decade before the advent of the World Wide Web, the WBCN-terface allowed consumers to provide direct public electronic feedback to a commercial enterprise. - - Winston Smith
Boston Computer Society 617-237-3750 BCSnet Host (1984-1987)
-This was a 6-line installation running on an IBM PC XT machine using an Alloy Computer Products extension system unit that contained 6 different computers. Each computer was a single board containing CPU, memory, serial ports, etc. (What were later to be called -blades-) All the comuters shared the same hard drive and message base.
-This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in continuous operation. It supported a community of IBM PC users for the Boston COmputer Society which had approximately 42, 000 members at its peak.
-Most of the time the system was operational it ran out of a closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my residence at the time.
-It took some convincing to talk the phone company into installing 6 residential phone lines into one location. They thought I was running a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr campus that he could use for these lines. We spent several hours tracing through the basements of buildings until we found the connections we used.
-While running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched to TBBS when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into the Boston Computer Society offices near Davis Square. The system was later moved to Waltham, MA when the entire BCS offices moved there. - - Doug Chamberlin
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John
I still have a Nakamichi 5 disk drive in one of my towers. back in the days of low HDD space, they were great for playing endless music but also for running programmes such as Encarta, which required the disk to be present in the drive in order to use it. Plus, it made multi-disk copying so much easier.
Nakamichi made great drives, just as they made the best cassette decks and cassette data drives. Does anyone else remember when PC programmes were stored on compact cassette tapes, as they were with the Sinclairs and Commodores? Or am I just getting old.
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I still have a Nakamichi 5 disk drive in one of my towers. back in the days of low HDD space, they were great for playing endless music but also for running programmes such as Encarta, which required the disk to be present in the drive in order to use it. Plus, it made multi-disk copying so much easier.
Nakamichi made great drives, just as they made the best cassette decks and cassette data drives. Does anyone else remember when PC programmes were stored on compact cassette tapes, as they were with the Sinclairs and Commodores? Or am I just getting old.
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Jo-o
That thing on the back of the G4 is the end of a beam that locks the side panel opening lever mechanism when pulled, so you could add a regular padlock to the eyelet on it in order to block it from retracting and prevent component theft (a very natural concern in offices and schools. ;)
The G5 and pre-Trash Pro towers, AKA the [og] -cheesegraters-, have an analogous mechanism under the side panel opening lever, except it's a rotating, retractable inlet that sticks out through a slit on that lever but, again, it can also be fitted with a regular padlock.
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That thing on the back of the G4 is the end of a beam that locks the side panel opening lever mechanism when pulled, so you could add a regular padlock to the eyelet on it in order to block it from retracting and prevent component theft (a very natural concern in offices and schools. ;)
The G5 and pre-Trash Pro towers, AKA the [og] -cheesegraters-, have an analogous mechanism under the side panel opening lever, except it's a rotating, retractable inlet that sticks out through a slit on that lever but, again, it can also be fitted with a regular padlock.
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Mac
The business CD cards. I had a few 1, 000 of those made up back in the day. I have them shaped as a die-cut of the graphics. Nobody around here in Detroit has done it in rap and hip-hop, even today I haven't seen anyone use it. I also did USB sticks inside of plush toys, action figures and lighters glued in or on so you had to use the object to plug into the computer like a huge dongle as it had encrypted links / buttons in the user interface of the rom. Only people with this dongle / usb could access unknown pages to the website.
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The business CD cards. I had a few 1, 000 of those made up back in the day. I have them shaped as a die-cut of the graphics. Nobody around here in Detroit has done it in rap and hip-hop, even today I haven't seen anyone use it. I also did USB sticks inside of plush toys, action figures and lighters glued in or on so you had to use the object to plug into the computer like a huge dongle as it had encrypted links / buttons in the user interface of the rom. Only people with this dongle / usb could access unknown pages to the website.
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greenaum
Clint, for the Psion, you take a deep breath, then give the outer cover a good yank. Same direction as to open it, slid down further past the bottom than you'd think it would go. It just comes clean off, and on the part with the buttons on, you'll see where the battery goes.
BTW, Anyone throwing away a Psion _II_, I'm not nearly as picky! I'd gladly take anything anyone is giving away! I'd play with it and keep it fed with 9V batteries, and love it it was my own child.
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Clint, for the Psion, you take a deep breath, then give the outer cover a good yank. Same direction as to open it, slid down further past the bottom than you'd think it would go. It just comes clean off, and on the part with the buttons on, you'll see where the battery goes.
BTW, Anyone throwing away a Psion _II_, I'm not nearly as picky! I'd gladly take anything anyone is giving away! I'd play with it and keep it fed with 9V batteries, and love it it was my own child.
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Gary
Hi,
I'm new to your site and I was kind of amused by that Toshiba Satellite at 31: 15 in this video.
I have one of those in it's original carry bag with various leads, power lead and floppy disc drive accessory.
My question is - Is it worth anything to anyone and if so, where could I sell it to the right audience?
Really, I just thought it was old junk, that is why it now lives in a box in my garage.
Kept meaning to throw it out but never got around to it.
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Hi,
I'm new to your site and I was kind of amused by that Toshiba Satellite at 31: 15 in this video.
I have one of those in it's original carry bag with various leads, power lead and floppy disc drive accessory.
My question is - Is it worth anything to anyone and if so, where could I sell it to the right audience?
Really, I just thought it was old junk, that is why it now lives in a box in my garage.
Kept meaning to throw it out but never got around to it.
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OriginalRitz
Clint, where do you store everything? Your house must be just crammed with gear. Maybe a tour is in order? Unless you've done one before. I still have many many of your videos to go through. But I'm glad because I don't want to run out! Kind of like how I wish I could go back in time to a state where I've never seen Seinfeld before.
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Clint, where do you store everything? Your house must be just crammed with gear. Maybe a tour is in order? Unless you've done one before. I still have many many of your videos to go through. But I'm glad because I don't want to run out! Kind of like how I wish I could go back in time to a state where I've never seen Seinfeld before.
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D.
5: 10 never got to the math one but my very first pc games (-word rescue-, -cosmo's cosmic adventure- and -commander keen 4-, played on my 486DX 66mhz pc, back in the day. great way for someone to learn-english-while-having-fun, being a 9yo non-english speaker at the time. thanks -LGR for all the memories. kudos from portugal
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5: 10 never got to the math one but my very first pc games (-word rescue-, -cosmo's cosmic adventure- and -commander keen 4-, played on my 486DX 66mhz pc, back in the day. great way for someone to learn-english-while-having-fun, being a 9yo non-english speaker at the time. thanks -LGR for all the memories. kudos from portugal
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David
The IBM COBOL compiler software brought back so many memories for me. I spent 2 years at a place called Highland ITeC in Inverness, Scotland, studying computer programming and COBOL was one of the languages, it was an awful language to learn but learn it i did back in 1989. We used Olivetti M24 8086 XT's. good times.
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The IBM COBOL compiler software brought back so many memories for me. I spent 2 years at a place called Highland ITeC in Inverness, Scotland, studying computer programming and COBOL was one of the languages, it was an awful language to learn but learn it i did back in 1989. We used Olivetti M24 8086 XT's. good times.
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Fernando
-Lets put it on a computer because we can-. I remember hearing a story about a Rubik's Cube game for one of the early consoles. I want to say the Atari VCS, but I can't recall. Anyways, they made it, then somebody pointed out that the game was $30, but you could buy a real Rubik's Cube for $5. Doh!
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-Lets put it on a computer because we can-. I remember hearing a story about a Rubik's Cube game for one of the early consoles. I want to say the Atari VCS, but I can't recall. Anyways, they made it, then somebody pointed out that the game was $30, but you could buy a real Rubik's Cube for $5. Doh!
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