Dude, what's your old CompuServe account number?
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| Bob_Robertson Jul 07, 2009 6:38 PM EDT |
72125,1424 I am _astounded_ that I still remember that, from 1982. Maybe it's true, that you never forget your first... |
| gus3 Jul 07, 2009 6:43 PM EDT |
I still remember the number on my first phone card. |
| dinotrac Jul 07, 2009 6:46 PM EDT |
Bob, I bow to your memory. I can't remember mine to save my life, but... I sure do remember how cool Compuserve was at the time. Sometimes, I'm not entirely sure the Web is an improvement. |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 07, 2009 6:49 PM EDT |
I still remember my old ICQ number: 22421382. Yerah, take that. An 8-digit number. Proof that it's ancient :-) PS: A friend of mine even has a 7-digit number. |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 7:01 PM EDT |
Sheesh, I would hav e figured they died a long time ago... |
| gus3 Jul 07, 2009 7:14 PM EDT |
@Sander: Mine's 8 digits as well, and it starts with 131. I wonder what it's worth on eBay? |
| jdixon Jul 07, 2009 7:31 PM EDT |
You folks had more money than me. :( I could never afford CI$. I had to settle for Delphi. |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 07, 2009 7:37 PM EDT |
Darn, I'm trying to think where I might have put my ICQ number... wow, this is getting ear-y. Found it: 73828758 Yep, y'all got me beat on ICQ, that's for sure. In the mean time, I also found my copy of the Windows Entertainment Pack for Win3.1, and Word 2, and the BubbleGumCrisis mod pack for Duke Nuke'm. ...and 13 floppies for booting Debian 2.2, Aug. 2000. |
| Sander_Marechal Jul 07, 2009 7:43 PM EDT |
Got you beat there too. I have MS-DOS 3 on two 5.25" floppies, along with Windows 1.03 on two 5.25" floppies. I've got the manuals and all. There was a separate manual for GW-BASIC (the one that still used line numbers). That taught me how to program. |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 7:57 PM EDT |
@Bob_Robertson You Linux newbie. I still know where my copy of Yggdrasil Beta is, CD, manual and boot floppies. :-) |
| phsolide Jul 07, 2009 7:57 PM EDT |
I, too, was a Compu$erve member, but I come not to praise it, but to bury it. The owners of Compu$erve, AOL and Prodigy bear a huge responsibility: the death of Usenet. In '93, when all of those dorky services decided to let loose all their uneducated masses on Usenet, they ruined it. I shall forever hold a grudge against them for their bad decisions. And their inability to apologize for it. And the attitudes that led to the initial spam plague. |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 8:00 PM EDT |
@Sander You spring chicken! I've got an Apple DOS 3.2 System Master 5.25" floppy... MS-DOS didn't even exist when that one came out... :-) I bet someone out there has a CP/M version that predates that though... I remember when I was the spring chicken instead of an old geezer. Sigh. |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 07, 2009 8:01 PM EDT |
Janitor, Are you sure it came on a CD? Anyway, those boot floppies were for the laptop I retired last summer. Not the first Linux install I did. That was all 16 floppies of Debian .95 |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 8:01 PM EDT |
@phsolide I couldn't agree with you more regarding the death of Usenet. |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 8:06 PM EDT |
@Bob_Robertson Yes it did, it was as far as I know the first distro available on CD. As far as I know SLS and Slackware were not available on CD until companies like InfoMagic started packaging them that way. I started ordering those as soon as they came out. |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 07, 2009 8:57 PM EDT |
Neat, thanks. I know CD-ROM existed, because I had a SoundBlaster card-connected one myself, in 1990, the driver for which I see is still in the latest kernel. But it would not boot through that CD-ROM. Win95 wasn't a boot disk either, because drivers hadn't been standardized I think. |
| gus3 Jul 07, 2009 9:14 PM EDT |
One of the great "epic fails" of years past: putting the driver for the sound-card-based CD-ROM... on a CD-ROM. It was in the Windows 95 days, so I can't remember who did it. But reading about it did give me a life lesson concerning "boot-strapping." |
| softwarejanitor Jul 07, 2009 9:16 PM EDT |
@Bob_Robertson I believe you are correct, that the CD included with the Yggdrasil package was not bootable. They included both a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy to boot from. I used the 5.25" floppy and installed onto a 386DX-20 which was cobbled together from a case salvaged from a dead Samsung 286, a motherboard bought from a friend who had recenty upgraded to a 486, RAM that was salvaged from an old Sun 2 and an Adaptec SCSI card and Seagate 300MB SCSI hard drive that were bought from a computer surplus liquidator. The SCSI hardware was Digital labeled and included DEC manuals. The case I had to modify with tin snips in order to fit a standard AT form factor motherboard into because the Samsung was proprietary. I also had to cut off the original and solder on the right motherboard power connector because Samsung used a non-standard connector. I think I only had a couple hundred bucks into the SCSI parts I bought... What you can buy for that now... Oh yeah... the CD-ROM drive and sound card I installed from was an "Aztech" CD-ROM drive and one of the Soundblaster "Multi-CD" cards which had connectors for Sony, Phillips and one other. I forget now which connector the Aztech connected to. Too long ago. |
| NoDough Jul 08, 2009 11:03 AM EDT |
I have an original IBM PC DOS 2.0, still in shrinkwrap. It looks exactly like the box on the right in this picture http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/pcsystem.jpg , with the exception of the missing shrinkwrap in the picture. |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 08, 2009 11:05 AM EDT |
Sorry, ND, "404 File Not Found" edit: Ah, thank you. I remember seeing those manuals. I, instead, bought a Tandy 1000. |
| NoDough Jul 08, 2009 11:11 AM EDT |
I hate when that happens. Hold on, I'll edit the previous post when I find the proper URL. [edit] Got it. The comma in the sentence was inadvertently included in the URL. |
| gus3 Jul 08, 2009 12:24 PM EDT |
Quoting:The owners of Compu$erve, AOL and Prodigy bear a huge responsibility: the death of Usenet. In '93, when all of those dorky services decided to let loose all their uneducated masses on Usenet, they ruined it. I shall forever hold a grudge against them for their bad decisions. And their inability to apologize for it. And the attitudes that led to the initial spam plague.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September |
| softwarejanitor Jul 08, 2009 12:28 PM EDT |
@gus Excellent link... |
| tuxchick Jul 08, 2009 1:01 PM EDT |
Fidonet, anyone? |
| herzeleid Jul 08, 2009 2:06 PM EDT |
Well, I had a compuserve account in 1992 but I can't remember the number. I do have some copies of slackware 2.3 (the last a.out version) laying around somewhere though. |
| softwarejanitor Jul 08, 2009 4:29 PM EDT |
@tuxchick I used to call a Fidonet BBS back around 1984-1986. |
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