[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases

I was also 1:106/5 - Here is a Fidonet Group I moderated in 1994 -

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----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Griffin 
  To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:20 AM
  Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases


  WOW! Where on earth did you dig that up??? Do you still have an old Fido 
listing?? That was my node number and my phone number. 106 covered all of 
Houston and the surronding areas. 1 was the US, 106 was Houston Area, and 5999 
was my node address. 

  Prior to me running the BBS on an XT, I had a Commodore 64 w/ 300 baud that 
connected to Quantum Link. It was like CompuServe only for Commodores. I 
remember hacking into that system on many occasions and taking over the chat 
rooms as Moderator. hehehehe....

  Mike

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: john leenerts 
    To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:58 PM
    Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases





    Griff's Tavern                  *
       *                                (713)550-5999 FIDO: 1:106/5999  

    Back when I ran a BBS, "Griff's Tavern", I bought a 660 meg SCSI HD for 
$1900.00. This was in the Early 90's. The guy that sold it to me said, "You 
will never use that much space!" 

    I ran Wildcat BBS Software later changing to TAG. I ran BinkleyTerm and was 
a mail distributor on Fidonet for most of the Houston Area. 2 lines @ 1200 
each. Later upgrading to 2 US Robotics 9600 Baud High Speeds for $1200 sysop 
discount price. Ahhh.. The good old days!

    Mike

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Mike Lusicic 
      To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 8:44 PM
      Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases


      - Not too long ago I ran across some old Byte magazines. They were 
advertising 143 KB floppy drives for more than that. I forget exactly what the 
price was, but I think it was closer to $500. That was back when the way you 
wrote to disk with an Apple was to issue a PRINT command that began with Ctrl-D 
character which meant it was a disk command rather than a real print command.

      Mike Griffin wrote: 
        - 
        Looking through some old emails I came across this order.. WOW! I can 
get a terrabyte drive for cheaper! 

        YOUR ORDER INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ITEM(S): 

        Shopping cart includes 1 unique item(s) 
        Total Price: $310.00 

        Item Detail#:1 
        Description: Refurbished: Hard Drive 18GB IDE Latitude CP/CPi/CPiA 
        Manufacturer: DELL 

        Single Item Cost: $299.00 
        Quantity: 1 
        Sub-Total for Item: $299.00 
        ___________________ 

        Your total order amount is: 
        This includes the following: 
            Subtotal:                  $299.00 
            Shipping/Handling: 
            Sales Tax: 




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