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Bekki Doll |
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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Reged: 01/28/12
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Posts: 771
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Loc: Freeport, PA
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Re: What if you had to use dialup BBSes today.
02/26/12 10:25 PM
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I believe my board was one of the first in the area to have a 1GB HD full of downloads. That drive was truly expensive at the time, though, let me tell you!
Oh yeah! One WaReZ BBS I was on where I knew the sysops IRL ran a 2GB HD that cost two grand circa 1992. Today you can find 2GB SD cards for around $5 USD.
Because of the expense of hard drives some boards went for CD-ROM jukeboxes. With how inexpensive raw storage is today one can't help but be reminded of PC-SIG and Nightowl CD-ROM shareware distros. Back then 650MB of stuff on CD-ROM was seen as awesome. :-)
Back then the main reason I gravitated towards the Internet was the access to worldwide FTP servers.
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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