Subj : hello! :DD
To   : Digital Man
From : AKAcastor
Date : Mon Apr 15 2024 01:39 pm

 DM> What's funny, a user used to be a lamer if they had a 
 DM> computer older than the current generation or a modem 
 DM> slower than the fastest speeds the BBS could accept, 
 DM> but nowadays it's reversed: Nobody is impressed by your 
 DM> terabytes of disk space, hundreds of gigs of RAM, and 
 DM> dozens of processor cores at gigahertz speeds. You have 
 DM> to run some old piece of crap from the 1980's to really 
 DM> impress us! ;-)

Haha!  You're right, a dozen cores running at gigahertz speeds sounds downright boring these days.  On the other hand, I have a Pocket 386 ordered and en route to me and that is pretty exciting!  Pocket 386 is a small notebook-form factor 386 machine sold on AliExpress, from the same place as the Book 8088 that you may have seen 'around' the past year or so. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005542582463.html

Back to the "nowadays it's reversed" - I also chuckled at the option in BBS software (Maximus specifically, but I think this was common in the 90s) to not allow calls from modems less than 1200 or 2400 bps.  Meanwhile today, I am still so excited to have recently gotten an acoustic coupler 300 bps modem!  (woodgrain stickers on the side and everything - it's beautiful hehe)


Chris/akacastor

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