On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:52:45 -0500, flipper wrote:
I had a 286 the drove a mono card and a 720x640 Hi Res Ball 12 Volt
Green mono CRT for my first box. It started out with a 10MB Tandon
original Full Ht HD and 2MB RAM and no math co-processor. I was lucky to
get it for $200.
My first box was a Nova 2/10 mini-computer with 64k core RAM and 2
1.25Meg pizza platters, one removable and one fixed (just no door on a
second pack), hard drive. I was lucky to pull it out of a dumpster,
including the 6 foot 19 inch rack to mount the thing in. Repaired it
and, voilą, I had a blower driven 1.5kW space heater.
Hahahah... Two birds, one stone from my pov. That monitor on my first
one was still in the cardboard box it got shipped in, and I still have it
that way. I only needed to hook up one com cable, and one 12V source.
I wonder if DVI has signals that could drive it as a second monitor...
heheh that would be cool.
Hacking in a junked Hewlett Packard high speed tape reader wasn't very
difficult but a printer was out of reach, as was any really 'useful'
software (unless you wanted to operate a chemical plant) but the
sucker worked.
That is pretty neat. Pulling partially loaded racks out of dumpsters
must be fun too. Just happened to have your truck with you, eh?
I paid nearly $600 for my first 16MB block of RAM for a 386 I had.
I paid nearly $600 for my first SCSI 1GB Full Ht HD, which I referred
to as my "Black Hole" at the time. My how those times have changed.
Hehe. Yeah. I remember when a 10Meg hard drive was the cat's meow.
I have a 10MB Tandon, then the 16MB, then the zone sectored format that
bumped it to 22MB IIRC,then the 32MB zone sectored
At least the files are bigger for a reason. The images are higher
resolution :-) Now, don't go reading into this statement... ;-)
Oh, I'm sure you mean high resolution, false color, stellar mapping 
No... Rusty and Edie's :-P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_n_Edie%27s_BBS
I actually remember BBS's pretty fondly.
Yes, I love the Hubble stuff.
I also love fractals. I had "FracTools" back when everyone was at 16
color EGA, then VGA. It was the bee's knees. It had advantages over the
current apps too, so I am going to try and revive it inside of a DOSBox
session or such. It had like a Gem (OS) front end or something. Most
current GUIs puke on it when I try to run it.