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General Category => Introduce Your Self => Topic started by: Bigdog on March 31, 2019, 11:17:02 PM

Title: Hello from a new arrival
Post by: Bigdog on March 31, 2019, 11:17:02 PM
Me:  Hi, I'm Bigdog and I'm a warezaholic.
Everyone:  Hi, Bigdog!

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I'm new here, and here at the invitation of thepitster on a board that is so old that almost all of our members have either grown up and have RL endeavors or have died off.  I'm grown up, but I still like the camaraderie of the boards, and I haven't quite died yet, so I thought I would check it out.

I have been involved in the small computer scene as long as there has been a small computer scene.  My first computer was an Altair 8800 with the flippendeswitches and the blinkendelightens and all that, circa 1978.  I have never looked back.  I have stuck with Intel all the way, no Apples, thank you very much.

I remember the joy in scoring an 8" floppy disk containing a copy of Microsoft BASIC "from a friend"... and that was a time when M$ BASIC cost $500... $500 in 1979 dollars (which is about $1,750 dollars in 2019 dollars).  Imagine a basic piece of software that cost $1,750!

Later, into the PC days, I remember very laboriously downloading my first 50 megabyte fileset over a telephone modem... some business program or other which instantly crashed MSDOS and required a format and reinstall.  POS!

Anyway, I am sure I will find the people here friendly and helpful, and I'll try to be the same.

{BD}



Title: Re: Hello from a new arrival
Post by: HyperionX on April 01, 2019, 02:49:05 AM
Welcome to the forum!!!
Have fun and don't be afraid to post
Title: Re: Hello from a new arrival
Post by: Bigdog on April 01, 2019, 12:55:32 PM
Hi, HyperionX, and thanks.  I heard you were here.  Glad to see some of the old names again.
Title: Re: Hello from a new arrival
Post by: thepitster on April 01, 2019, 03:43:03 PM
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
or make a 5 post minimum to see url tags. yeah there are a few old names and quite a few new ones too, hope you enjoy yourself and dont let You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
or make a 5 post minimum to see url tags. be a bad influence like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
or make a 5 post minimum to see url tags. LOL
Title: Re: Hello from a new arrival
Post by: Afaz on April 20, 2019, 04:46:48 PM
HEYYY I SEE MY NAME HERE?!?! closed topic or not. hello welcome! not bothering with my intro spam post on a ARW Orig tho. i am a perfectly good influence for anyone interested in drugs, alcohol or research chemicals :) oh and of course the mary jane.... :)