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От : Vincent Coen 2:250/1 25 окт 24 13:32:08
К : David Rance 25 окт 24 20:35:01
Тема : 30 years
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Hello David!
23 Oct 24 11:26, you wrote to Ward Dossche:
> On 23/10/2024 09:54, 2292/854 wrote:
WD>> When researching dates for a Snooze article about Janis Kracht, I
WD>> just discovered (remembered?) that I entered the nodelist at
WD>> 2:2/0 Oct.21st 1994 ... 30 years to the date of Janis` passing.
> I hadn`t heard - but it was only two days ago. I`m so sorry to hear
> that.
WD>> It`s been a journey, a lot of people have already departed us ...
> Yes, indeed. And many have departed before their time, too. I think I
> predate your entry to the nodelist. I think I joined sometime in 1987.
> Is there anyone here who has been in Fidonet longer ago than that?
Cannot beat that as a history file I found I started in April 1992 as
2:440/103 but did run a BBS around the early 1980`s to support my
microcomputer
distribution company MPI which started around 1974/5. It was to support the
software we issued on behalf of various US companies including Microsoft,
Digital Research, Aston Tate and many others, many of which are no longer
around (much like MPI).
BBS ran on a Cromemco System 3 running with a very large HDD in a 19" rack
that
had 80 MB fixed and 16MB removable running under Cromix (a *nix based O/S)
running 24/7 and the same system had modems attached, one of which I connected
too via private wire to my home which was also a phone line extension to the
office so I could work from home without any customers noticing. The system
run
our Accounting System with Sales, Purchase, Nominal Ledgers and is still
around
today but now I have made the code open source placed on sourceforge.net and
is
still being updated from time to time.
The BBS was connected to a network but I do not remember what one.
When MPI closed down I took the Cromeemco home and used it for a few years
along with a home assembled system running OS/2 with Adept BBS and changed to
Linux when IBM dropped OS/2. I was not impressed by the European company that
looked after ? OS/2 and same can be said for the US one that does it now.
Pity if IBM had followed my requests and advice about taking it over and
removing the Windows crap and making it a community project it might be a lot
further on, than it is, but now it is a totally dead duck.
Vincent
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