13 Jan
2014
13 Jan
'14
9:02 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 13 January 2014 19:30, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks
at gmail.com> wrote:
It was a very good system ~25 years ago (I think it was about 1990
when I upgraded from 2x 20MB MFM to 200MB SCSI for the disk). I
played games, wrote and gave away code (on Fish disks and on Usenet),
ported games and apps from comp.sources.unix and comp.sources.games to
it, ran UUCP on it and read Netnews and mail on it, ran a mailing list
(with custom-written AREXX scripts)... I replaced it around 1993 with
an Amiga 3000 that did much the same work, but with 3x the RAM and an
Ethernet interface. Plus it sure beat the hell out of running MS-DOS.
-ethan
A1000... upgraded... with a Spirit Inboard
(1.5MB...), a WEDGE (8-bit
ISA interface+Western Digital WX-1 + ST225), a Rejuvinator, and
eventually a Starboard (2MB) and Stardrive SCSI
Not that I can actually identify almost any of those add-ons, I'm sure
that's still a system that would have had me drooling 25y ago. :?)