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.

BobW
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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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