[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

Gregory Woodbury via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Fri Aug 26 15:09:45 EDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>
> I also remember my first HDD and being impressed that I actually had a
> hard drive.  It was a whopping 10MB.
>
> As we were mentioning the BBS days, I also recall it being a big,
> impressive, deal if a BBS had a hard drive for storage. That was a
> serious sysop.
>
> The last incarnation of The Wolves Den BBS in Durham was a unixbbs instance
on a custom tower PC that was a birthday present from my Dad. It had two
320MB
hard drives and was running SCO UNIX.  It nearly got caught up in the
Operation
Sundevil E911 computer fraud sweep, and one person reported me to AT&T for
"selling" UNIX when I floated the idea of allowing paid members of the BBS
to have
access to the UNIX command line.

Those were the days.
-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury
redwolfe at gmail.com


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