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    From Shocker@VERT/HAUNTED to Justmike on Wednesday, November 04, 2026 10:06:17
    Re: do you guys use retro com
    By: Justmike to ALIN on Tue Nov 03 2026 12:27 pm

    I use the my Tandy Color Computer 2 & 3 but I also like using Telix with
    my 486DX266, mainly so I can download all the messages in QWK and use
    the Silly Little Mail Reader just like I did in the 80s and 90s.
    JustMike coconet.ddns.net:6809

    Wow, this brings back memories. Started with a TRS 80 COCO 16k 300 baud modem, cassette tape drive. Then traded up to 386sx/16. Telix and Qmodem were the as well. Awesome that you're still using it. I can't even recall where mine went to at this point.

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  • From Esc@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, November 05, 2026 12:29:26
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
    I bought a 386SX/16 because they were so cheap in the early-to-mid '90s. One of those with 2 MB of ram was a pretty decent DOS box with enough memory to run big applications or set up a cache. I held onto that thing until the 486es got cheap.

    This was my first computer as well. Bought it at a computer show from a guy named Bacon (it wasn't spelled that way and he wasn't from the US, but still lol). That computer was rock solid, never had a problem. Then we got a 486dx66 that was also rock solid. After that we got a Pentium 90 (IIRC) which was nothing but problems, and was also my main BBS machine.

    -esc
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