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Hello Daryl,

20 Feb 22 20:19, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 DS> Sean,

 SD>> Sure thing and I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier.
 SD>> It really is amazing how many "old computers" are being revived
 SD>> by hobbyists these days.  Makes me wish I'd held onto all of my
 SD>> issues of "Family Computing" now.

 DS>   My first computers were:

 DS> 1) A Radio Shack TRS-80 MC-10 Micro Color Computer. A TV set (with a
 DS> special adapter) was the monitor, programs were loaded and saved via
 DS> cassette tape, an acoustic coupler modem was used for communication
 DS> with CompuServe or BBS's, and it had a small box like keyboard...with
 DS> an optional 16K RAM Expansion Pack (it originally only had 4K).

 DS> 2) A Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100. I had a disk drive with it, and
 DS> special software to load/save files (it was faster than cassette). A
 DS> special terminal program allowed one to access CompuServe for the
 DS> forums, with another one, allowing Xmodem file transfers.

 DS> 3) An 8088 XT, with 640K RAM, a monochrome green monitor, a 20 MB hard
 DS> drive, a keyboard, a mouse, plus a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive, with
 DS> DOS. 3.2 on it. That was the birthplace of The Thunderbolt BBS nearly
 DS> 30 years ago.


what bbs (mailer, tosser, etc) did you run on your XT ?

Regards,
--
dp

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