Subj : Re: Fairly recent newbie here
To   : Vicgchad07
From : anthk
Date : Mon Nov 13 2023 01:16 am

On 2023-09-22, Vicgchad07 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Howdy, folks.
>
> So, I'd bought a WiRSA modem kit off of eBay about a month ago and used all my remaining solder in my workshop to piece it together.
> So far, the WiFi to serial connection does what it should with little to no issues (the firmware updates are hit-or-miss as far as downloading is concerned).
>
> Anyway, I'm 32 years old and an avid user of Windows versions prior to Windows 10.  When I'm not fixing up arcade machines at the local Chuck E. Cheese's where I work, I tinker with older technology (and use it unironically afterward to cheese off my coworkers :P ).
> One example is right here: this IBM PC 300XL I'm restoring and using to connect to Synchronet.
> I did have to resort to a CompactFlash to IDE adapter as I made the grand mistake of buying a pre-owned hard disk rather than refurbished...and thus had nothing to access BBSes with for a good two weeks.
>
> My goal this year is to make identical retro builds for my mom, my sister, and my brother for their birthdays or Christmas.
>
> Anyway, gotta catch up on laundry before heading to bed for a grueling work day.  Toodles. :D

36yo here. Not an ultimately BBS user, as I am posting thru the Usenet gateway
to the Dove/FIDO networks, but as with Usenet, you can always find interesting
technical conversations out there. I don't use Win9x any more since a few
decades, but you can fetch retrozilla from here:

http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/

and visit lots of modern sites among Gopher holes (I suggest you
gopher://magical.fish, gopher://floodgap.org and gopher://mozz.us
as starting points).

People call me retro or outdated, but I can fetch news and resources
with 1/50 of the bandwidth. And, even better, RSS's, Usenet posts and
BBS' threads can be stored offline and be read anywhere.

On arcades, once I've got MAME since early OO's I didn't spend money
or resouces on that as most games ran fine on a simple Athlon XP.
Nowadays MAME requieres a Core Duo to properly emulate the games,
but there's always AdvanceMAME/AdvanceMESS.

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