[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Old Purchases
- From: john leenerts <johnnybgood1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
One of the first sites I found when I googled i!
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:
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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:
Mike Griffin
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