anyone using retro hardare? <3

i cant be the onmly retro system on fsx net?

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Re: hey i am on a 286 any retro hardare here? <3
By: mary4 to All on Thu Jan 23 2025 04:23:54

Hi, mary4.

anyone using retro hardare? <3

Yup, my daily BBSing machine is an Acorn A3020 - absolutely love it. Ironically I didn't get on with the terminal software I could find for it so I wrote my own - it runs full screen and uses a ROM-dumped VGA CP437 font so I could just as well be BBSing on an old PC... But the keyboard is lovely and it makes a beautiful pan pipe "hoob" sound instead of the PC speaker beep :)

I also have a BBC micro but that's a bit too limited for all-the-time BBSing. It's mildly exciting visiting BBC based BBSes with it as it has its own way of doing colours and a slightly different character set - you get quite a distinctive experience. It can do 80 cols but only in mono, so not ideal.

The only time I use modern hardware to BBS is a) on holiday or b) to visit PETSCII boards. And, of course, I use MuffinTerm for that so the experience is still surprisingly authentic.

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anyone using retro hardare? <3

i cant be the onmly retro system on fsx net?

At times I dial in on a few systems I have setup and running;

Apple II
Dolch PAC 60 486/66
Windows XP Dell Laptop
(I sold BOTH my C= systems. :( )
... and a few others; Atari 600, 286 monochrome laptop, etc.

:P I'm not as cool as you ALWAYS calling from my retro's, but I join you a few times a week!!



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anyone using retro hardare? <3

i cant be the onmly retro system on
fsx net?

I'm here with my Atari 800XL that I usually use for BBSing. I'm not sure how many Atari 8-bit ATASCII boards besides mine are hooked up to fsxnet...

I also use my 486 which I've had since new for BBSing on ANSI boards.



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I would love to use retro hardware, maybe an old macintosh. That would be dreamy.


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Utopian Galt wrote to Mary4 <=-

I would love to use retro hardware, maybe an old macintosh. That would
be dreamy.

A Mac IIci, maxxed out with 12 MB of RAM. Cache card and external video
card. Internal 80mb drive, external 1GB SCSI drive. 14" Sony CRT, Apple Extended keyboard and mouse.

That was my daily driver for years, outlasted others who moved onto
Quadras. It never crashed and just did what it was told the entire
time. Loved that machine.

If I ever went retro, that's the machine I'd get. Unless I had the desk
space for a IIfx. :)



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No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

Regards
Andreas

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a hot-rodded Apple IIgs right now, but I have several other ancient computers that I use as well.

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She a rom1 or a rom3?

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No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

Regards
Andreas

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I looked at kcm.or.at .
The Cookie popup showed up and I had no idea whether to click the top Bar or the bottom Bar to accept Cookies.

Is English an option on the Museum?
Thank You.
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Hello Ed,

08 Feb 25 18:25, you wrote to goto_KCM:

No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to
connect to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11
Microcomputer.

Regards
Andreas

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I looked at kcm.or.at .
The Cookie popup showed up and I had no idea whether to click the top
Bar or the bottom Bar to accept Cookies.

alle akzeptieren => accept all
weiter ohne einwillung => decline

Is English an option on the Museum?

Andreas is writing in english, so i guess it's possible, but you have to contact them before you go as they are not open in fixed times (i just read it from the website myself) :)

ByEbYe
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No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect
to fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

NICE!! i love the amigas they are amazing machines
!! <3

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a hot-rodded Apple IIgs right now, but I have several other ancient computers that I use as well.

DUDE APPLE ][GS!!!! FDSANSADHDASHASDJKLA;MKLS I AM JEALOUS! I WANT ONE TOO!
<3 tell me about your ancient computers!! i am on my custom built 1991 286
with 25MHz 286 and 16 mb of XMS and 2mb of EMS memory cfdjfjdskjl;dkfkla dude thats so cool!! <3

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No i sometimes use my Amiga 500, an 486 PC or a Commodore 64 to connect fsxNet. And in near fututure maybe also a PDP-11 Microcomputer.

i forgot to fan girl here the amiga is PREAK MULTI MEDIA AMAZINGNESS!! FDSKJASDFJSD;FSAKFLK <3

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Hello Ed,

08 Feb 25 18:25, you wrote to goto_KCM:

alle akzeptieren => accept all
weiter ohne einwillung => decline

Andreas is writing in english, so i guess it's possible, but you have to contact them before you go as they are not open in fixed times (i just read it from the website myself) :)

ByEbYe
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Thanks Daniel.
I was a West Coast Sailor when in the U.S. Navy, so I missed out on learning the European Languages.

I will go back to the histrysite and Accept All Cookies .
Thanks much!
Ed
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i forgot to fan girl here the amiga is PREAK MULTI MEDIA AMAZINGNESS!! FDSKJASDFJSD;FSAKFLK <3

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Mary, I only have a C=64 here, the post about the Amiga in my message, was part of a Quote from somene who has one of those precious boxes.
Ed
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Mary, I only have a C=64 here, the post about the Amiga in my message,
was part of a Quote from somene who has one of those precious boxes.
Ed

NMICE C=64 ARE Amazing!!!fjdsajda;jasd <3

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On 23 Jan 2025, mary4 said the following...

anyone using retro hardare? <3

i cant be the onmly retro system on fsx net?

You'd be surprised. I can't see myself, though, using retro systems since my experience using them have been rather sour. Aging hardware tend to be high maintenance with my luck and I end up spending more time fixing them than enjoying it. Also, I've resorted to using rpi rigs for my home computing needs. This means far less electricity utilization as well as heat in my den during the summer. I think this upgrade has dropped ambient temperature by fifteen degrees during peak summer heat and that's huge for me.

What 286 rig are you using? What are the stats?

D

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Is English an option on the Museum?

Hey, as while in the museum and messages yes, for sure :-).
On the Website it is much more effort to keep the website in both English and German and as i am the only person doing it, i keep it in German only.

I thought about also adding Czech as we are living right next to the boarder.

But if anyone would like to take a tour it would be amazing.

Regards
Andreas

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What 286 rig are you using? What are the stats?

ohhh m128 mobo with 16mb of ram and a fast as f boi 25MHz hude ssd in it with 128 bgb with xtide card in it! dual floppies super wd vga card, SOUND
BLASTER 16! WITH NETWORKING! Ethernet! :p
dual cf cards too sdo i got 6 drives on this beast! just the tubo biutton
broke xD

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Hey, as while in the museum and messages yes, for sure :-).
On the Website it is much more effort to keep the website in both English and German and as i am the only person doing it, i keep it in German only.

I thought about also adding Czech as we are living right next to the boarder.

But if anyone would like to take a tour it would be amazing.

Regards
Andreas

... Kautzner Computer Museum - https://kcm.or.at

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I looked at Your Museum webpages again today.

On the /kontakt page is a map.
I have two World Atlas books and didn't see Nieder-Osterrich in the index of either book.
I also looked to see if I could see the City on the Germany map page(s) but not able to figure out what area in Germany Your Museum is located.

As an aside, I shop at Aldi Grocery Store here in Indiana.
Ed
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I hadn't heard of Muffin Term... Looks pretty decent from the website...
When on macOS I've literally been using the built in Terminal app, with a customised profile installed for ANSI BBS use...

I'll download it later and play - still kinda wish there was a macOS native
app for NetRunner that used the same address book file... then I would sync that between my Windows PCs and Macs!

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Hi Mary

On the odd occasion I pull out one of my Compaq Portable machines. I have both the 286 and 386 - both the gas plasma display, not the CRT version.

I do have some other retro systems that are in need of repair / rebuild / etc...

All too much tasking not enough timing...

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Hello dflorey,

31 Mar 25 21:59, you wrote to Bob Worm:

I hadn't heard of Muffin Term... Looks pretty decent from the
website... When on macOS I've literally been using the built in
Terminal app, with a customised profile installed for ANSI BBS use...

can you tell me your settings for the terminal app?

btw MuffinTerm is awesome for MacOS/iOS!

ByEbYe
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can you tell me your settings for the terminal app?

I downloaded some from the internet 'somewhere' - I have a copy stashed away here: https://cdn.drf-solutions.net/software/Software%20For%20Multi-OS/BBS/MysticBBS/ NetRunner%20Client/Mac/macOS%20Terminal%20App%20Profile/ANSIBBS.terminal

Import that into Terminal as a new profile and then open a new Terminal
window with the new profile. Its not perfect, and does require some tweaking, but in its stock form, its not too bad. I think it requires a certain font - can't recall which.

Good luck!

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can you tell me your settings for the terminal app?

I got a font called Perfect DOS VGA 437 and set that in the Terminal profile under 'Texs'. Under 'Advanced' I set the terminal as 'ansi' and atthe bottom I changed 'Text encoding:' to 'Western (ASCII)'.


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Hello phigan,

10 Apr 25 19:33, you wrote to me:

can you tell me your settings for the terminal app?

I got a font called Perfect DOS VGA 437 and set that in the Terminal profile under 'Texs'. Under 'Advanced' I set the terminal as 'ansi'
and atthe bottom I changed 'Text encoding:' to 'Western (ASCII)'.

great! works, thanX :)

ByEbYe
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On the odd occasion I pull out one of my Compaq Portable machines. I
have both the 286 and 386 - both the gas plasma display, not the CRT version.

NICE!!!!!!! <3

I do have some other retro systems that are in need of repair / rebuild / etc...

dang fix it whren u get time

All too much tasking not enough timing...

i know right i been busy w with events! :D

Dave!

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mary4 wrote to dflorey <=-

On the odd occasion I pull out one of my Compaq Portable machines. I
have both the 286 and 386 - both the gas plasma display, not the CRT version.

I saw an ad for the "FIRST" anti-blue-light PC, and originally thought
of the gas plasma Compaqs. Nice systems. I had a Compaq portable II for
a while, had the green CRT though. Lots of fun, hated the squishy
keyboard. :(



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