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Today in the ByteCellar
Load More...#todayInTheByteCellar I got the ISA adapter from Australia I’d been waiting for and so now have serial and HD both installed in the 640K Tandy 1000HX so it’s my main #BBS machine. Lots of character in this 8088 PC, I must say.
#todayInTheByteCellar I moved 20 floppies of Tandy apps and games I filled over the holidays to the CF IDE volumes now on the 1000HX and put the floppies back into circulation. Lots of good mid-80s fun, there. Once I replace its cracked case, I’ll be set.
#todayInTheByteCellar (well, last night) I got a 512MB CF card in the Tandy 1000HX acting as an IDE HD and began loading it out. XTree Gold, Deskmate, Demos, etc. Waiting for arrival of another PLUS-to-ISA riser to mount serial card alongside lo-tech IDE controller.
#todayInTheByteCellar I determined my CF cards are no liking the lo-tech so ordered a "new" one. Sawed part of an ISA serial board off and then fit it into the Tandy 1000HX. BBSed on the Tandy. Contemplated DOS 5.0 vs 3.3 as the best 640K 8088 fit. Hmm...
#todayInTheByteCellar I got lots of help in #vc on https://t.co/urbzW4wsxQ and was able to get my desired eight 32MB DOS volumes on the Tandy 1000TL late into the evening. Drives C: thru J: -- that should do it!
Category Archives: BBS
Quickie: A Little PETSCII BBS Fun on a Saturday Morning
Just quickie here. I thought I’d take the Amiga 1000 out for a spin on a few Commodore 64 / PETSCII bulletin board systems this weekend. Thanks to @AmigaL0ve for providing links to two Amiga terminal programs that are up … Continue reading
BBSing on a Virtual NeXT Cube, Thanks to “Previous 2.0”
I’ve been having a lot of fun lately spending time BBSing with many of my vintage systems. One of the systems in my collection that I have not yet used to login is my NeXTstation Turbo Color slab. Its a … Continue reading
Modern-Day BBSing on the Epson PX-8 CP/M Laptop, Circa 1984
Regular readers and those who follow me on twitter have seen me talking a lot about my new hobby: spending time online logged in to telnet Bulletin Board Systems or BBSs around the net. Here on the blog I recently … Continue reading
Four Colors Into Sixteen: Terminal Innovation on the Atari ST
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the growing telnet BBS world lately and it’s really been a blast. I’ve been “dialing” in to my favorite BBSs by way of Paul Rickard’s WiFi232 Internet Modems (which I covered in … Continue reading
The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has (Literally) Never Been Easier
Over the past year or so, I’ve been loading up SyncTerm and logging in to various telnet-accessible BBSs here and there — nothing too consistent. But, thanks to a piece of kit released by Paul Rickards, over the past month … Continue reading
Gearing Up For Proper BBSing With the Raspberry Pi
A few recent retro challenges I’ve undertaken had me wanting to spend a bit more time logged in to BBS’s strewn here and there about the web. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time on BBS’s over the years, nearly all of it long ago … Continue reading
The ‘Real Genius’-Inspired BBS Challenge
Regular readers will have noticed that I have frequently joined in on the fun of r/Retrobattlestations‘ weekly and monthly retro challenges. I’ve done so with such frequency that I recently had to create an r/Retrobattlestations post category on this blog. These … Continue reading
Computer Users’ Groups of My Past [Updated]
I’ve spent the past couple of months procuring parts and assembling a 486-class DOS PC that is more or less a replica of the 486 PC I had back in college, in 1994. That’s the machine that first delivered the … Continue reading
