i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started doing spooky stuff recently about a year
ago. i been so busy with this stuff i also keep forgetting about the bbs i
need to check in often xD

I am needing to talk to paulie to change my username from mary4 to something else. please dm me Paulie420 on discord

also hi everyone!!! :3 286 gang!

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i am posting this on my os/2 os
install on my 286 xD it is at
25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is
os/2 1.3.... i got this thing
online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started
doing spooky stuff recently about
a year
ago. i been so busy with this
stuff i also keep forgetting about
the bbs i
need to check in often xD

Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it working.

What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it just around the corner?


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mary4 wrote to All <=-

i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz
with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD kinda spooky if you ask me speaking of spooky. I've started doing
spooky stuff recently about a year ago. i been so busy with this stuff
i also keep forgetting about the bbs i need to check in often xD

I started my IT career out running OS/2 1.3 on a 386 with 8 mb of RAM.
Amazing what you could do with it compared to other OSes of the time. I
could connect to a BBS, share files over a LAN and connect to an AS/400
simultaneously. And, run Word and Excel for OS/2.

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.



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slacker wrote to mary4 <=-

Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it
working.

I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.



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i am posting this on my os/2 os install on my 286 xD it is at 25MHz with 16 MB of ram and it is os/2 1.3.... i got this thing online xDDDD
kinda spooky if you ask me
speaking of spooky. I've started doing spooky stuff recently about a year ago. i been so busy with this stuff i also keep forgetting about the bbs i need to check in often xD

I am needing to talk to paulie to change my username from mary4 to something else. please dm me Paulie420 on discord

also hi everyone!!! :3 286 gang!

Hello and welcome! I love to see old machines back online.
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Nice! I always liked 286s. Mine unfortunately kicked the bucket about a decade ago and I've never been able to get it going again (random bodge wire on the bottom of the motherboard popped off and no idea where it went.) I still have it though in hopes that someday I'll get it working.

i am sure you can get it fixed! <3 i would look for a spot where the wire goes

sl> What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it
just around the corner?

I am an angel... it is always spooky with me my soul is an ancient angel soul and i do magic. i hope it is ok for me to say this... <3

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I started my IT career out running OS/2 1.3 on a 386 with 8 mb of RAM.
Amazing what you could do with it compared to other OSes of the time. I
could connect to a BBS, share files over a LAN and connect to an AS/400
simultaneously. And, run Word and Excel for OS/2.

NICE! PEAK COMPUTING HERE

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

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I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.

elks and tvlc is projects using the file system from minix... they are unix like operating systems for old 808x based computers


i am trying to get tlvc to work on my 286 here i posted on os/2 1.3 earlier

it is currently running FreeDOS 1.4 with some upgrades <3

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Hello and welcome! I love to see old machines back online.

yoooo
my 286 works nicely on the bbs! <3

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What spooky things are you up to? Halloween related things with it just around the corner?

I do OCCULT stuff specifically magic...
everyday has been halloween for me for a year ...

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I was bored at work in the '90s and looking for entertainment. I dug up
an old 286 with 4 mb of RAM from a storage room and put MINIX on it.

MINIX is a teaching OS, it's about as stripped down a *nix as you could
get. Easy to get your head around, and came with full sources.

I created a web site on it, used it as a caching DNS server and used it
as a mail host for my email - I'd use fetchmail to pull mail down to
it, get the mail off the server and read it locally. Opened it up to a
couple of friends in the company, which sent the UNIX admin into a fit.

Good times.

haha, That's great! I remember using Minix back in college. It was some sort of OS related programming course I took. I also had a copy running locally on one of my computers back home acting as a web server for a very short time. After the course ended, I swapped debian on it.


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i am sure you can get it fixed! <3 i would look for a spot where the wire goes

I've gave it a good try back when it broke. I know where one half goes but not the other. There's no real evidence of where it could have popped off. To make matters worse, there's almost no info online about it. It's a Pulstar Turbo 16. If anyone has any leads to any info related, I'd be happy to check it out. I'd love to get it working again. I've owned it since the mid 90s.



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NICE! PEAK COMPUTING HERE

Windows 3.1 could barely do one of those things at the same time.

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol
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mary4 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

elks and tvlc is projects using the file system from minix... they are unix like operating systems for old 808x based computers

Minix is apparently the basis for the Intel pre-boot environment on
modern PCs.

Now, I'm tempted to resurrect my MINIX server. It's horridly insecure,
though. I'd not want to put it on the net anywhere...



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Fae Empress wrote to mary4 <=-

lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol

I would *love to be able to run Windows for Workgroups in a VM with
decent resolution...



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lol ikr windows been bad since 3.1 since 1992 imho

WHAT? Them's fightin' words! lol

I would *love to be able to run Windows for Workgroups in a VM with
decent resolution...

From what I've read, it's a matter of bad SVGA drivers. Some 3rd party drivers should solve that, though I've never tried. I kind of like the low-res graphics for the nostalgia.
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