[THIN] Re: Hybrid question?
- From: Adam.Baum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:05:14 -0700
Telix had BBS software? I remember them as just being another
communications package, ala Procomm. I ran a few back in my day: RBBS,
Fido, and Opus (Fido variant).
adam
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Yeah,,, Winframe1.6 even.. heavens to mergatroid! Have to admit I still
have all the CD's all the way back to Winview. Why I keep them I don't
know...nostalgia I guess...of course I just finally threw out my 5 1/4"360
k and 1.2 meg floppies when I moved and some 720k 3 and 1/2 inch disks...
(over 3000 of them!) I used to run a phone bbs system and would back up my
whopping 80 meg mfm hard drive which I also just threw out (in 1988 that
was huge) from my IBM PC XT to them. You needed a special Adaptec
controller to run a drive that large back then that cost like $400. (The
drive itself cost like $1200.) It took hundreds of floppies to back up that
drive with dos backup. Yeah I got to be state of the art when I got that
baby up to dos 4.0! I ran a bbs system called Telix. I had 3 lines coming
into my house and sold text advertising on the site. I had hundreds of
shareware files for download. I would connect&nb sp;to other systems and
download every file they had then put them up on my site and would buy all
those shareware disks at computer shows and put them up. Shows how long
I've been doing this and been in the business. Where is gopher when you
need it. : )
Jim
Steve Snyde> wrote:
or lots of winframe servers? ;)
On 11/1/05, Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And are there still dinosaurs and cavemen where you work Neil? ; )
"Braebaum, Neil" < Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well the 10 year thing may not be so ridiculous.
All the Winterms I deployed in the field, dating back to 98, are the
original items (a small number may have been replaced - like-for-like by
engineers but all are the same model).
Up until very recently, I had some of the original server hardware in
use. The main reason for decommissioning some of it (and I'm talking
about 200 Mhz Pentium Pro server hardware) is simply management costs,
and datacentre real estate.
But the hardware still works and supports very similar loads to the
original implementation. It's only when you increase OS or application
demands that things become obsolete. But the investment my company made
in the initial end user hardware has not needed replacement. Nor will it
likely do, before the implementation is removed. And that won't be far
off 10 years.
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