Spectre wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I stopped using it, because its POP3 was a bit non-standard and
required patching of newer clients at the time, and eventually it was
just to hard.

One of my first IT victories was replacing a horrid Mac LAN-based email
system with a BSD box, Qpopper and Eudora mail clients. We figured out
how to push out address books, back up mailboxes and use Majordomo for
most of our big email lists. It was all pretty cool for the early '90s.



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kirkspragg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I played with KA9Q for a while - that was an amazing feat, showing
exactly how much you could do on an XT. I remember The Little Garden,

I'm not familiar with KA9Q, what can it do? Could be fun to find a download somewhere and have a play with it.

It's out there. It was an early internet app/environment for DOS, you
could use it to route packets, it had a couple of internet servers
built-in, and it could act as a TCP/IP client. Pretty heady stuff for
DOS.

https://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/



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kirkspragg wrote to mary4 <=-

Older version of MINIX run on a 286 - I was able to run a caching DNS server, web server and mail server on a 286 with 2mb of RAM.

THATS COOOL!! 2MB OF RAM IS ALL YOU NEED!!!! :D srsly thats cool!
i need to upgrade the 286 here to 16 mb of ram if those darn boards

I was not aware that MINIX could do some much with such limited
resources. Also RE 16MB support with 286 class machines, I've had some
odd results with the motherboard I am currenlty using in my 286 PC &
that you might run into.

The board supports more than 4Mb of ram which is the usual max for most 286 motherbaords, but while it works fine with 10Mb installed (2 4Mb
SIMMs + 2 1Mb SIMMs), 8Mb (2 4Mb SIMMs) just causes the bios to flip
out completely, due to some weird bug. I have no idea what 16Mb would
do as I just don't have enough 4Mb SIMMs to try.

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AKAcastor wrote to Jimmylogan <=-

Thanks. Gel shots every so often work wonders...

It's been years since I had Jello shots! Delicious.

Not what I meant at all - but maybe you knew that?

I've never had Jell-O shots - no desire.

I have a Ham radio in the house now - working on getting
an antenna on a nice tall pole/tower.

I haven't gotten into radio myself but I do appreciate hearing about
the interesting equipment and infrastructure involved.

Our 6 year old grandson has been with us for the last 6 weeks, so it's been unhooked. He enjoys the radio in the truck with me, but at home we've
been busy with legos :-) And by the time the nightly nets start he's
bathing and down for bed...

Sadly he goes home this weekend, and next week we'll be at a conference.
After that things get back to a routine, so I plan to work with it
again.







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