Amiga???

Matthew · Post #1 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 03:57 AM

I was looking through stats on one of my sites today and noticed this...

Guest 1
07 March 2006 at 9:51am
07 March 2006 at 9:51am
Amiga
Netscape 4
59.*.*.*

So... Is this that OLD Amiga like attached to this image? I was suprised to see that someone actually still used one. I know ours got sold at a car boot sale back in the 90's.

Will · Post #2 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 04:44 AM

Can you connect to the internet on those?

Matthew · Post #3 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 04:46 AM

I have no idea. I didnt think so, but maybe?

Will · Post #4 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 04:59 AM

I can sense a new advertising strategy. "Hosting Refuge - So Old School it Hurts"

Matthew · Post #5 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:01 AM

http://www.xs4all.nl/~arcade/amiga.html

My favourite parts

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Accessing the Internet. Through a PPP dialup, from work directly on the net and also with UUCP for my mail I'm an active 'netizen, and live an active virtual life.

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My Amiga 500+ ...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~arcade/images/pixel.gif My Amiga ... click here for my configuration. I don't need any crappy PC, my Amiga can do anything I want it to, and it does it all very well. It is not extremely fast, but very responsive and memory is not a problem either. I can't close the machine up though, there's too much hardware in there.

Matthew · Post #6 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Will

I can sense a new advertising strategy. "Hosting Refuge - So Old School it Hurts"

Maybe I should downgrade from vBulletin 3.5.3 to one of the old school bulletin board type things.

Will · Post #7 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:09 AM

Haha - text only, perhaps.

monaghan · Post #8 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Matthew

Maybe I should downgrade from vBulletin 3.5.3 to one of the old school bulletin board type things.

Did you ever use one of the Tower BBS's, they were an alternative to the main fido type bbs's.

I used to be co-sysop for Amstrad's support BBS, we had 2 2400 baud (yes 2400's, these were state of the art, the maximum you'd ever get out of a phone line when everyone else was running 1200/75's) modems into a pair of networked 8086 PC's running a multi user BBS, from memory it was a fido system (and yes, we did actually use it to provide customer support, although there was a good degree of testing of the international BBS linking

)

Those were the days

Some of the bigger BBS's even had Internet linkups (although not many advertised this except to fellow sysop's)

Matthew · Post #9 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:12 PM

I got a modem back in 1993 ish that was 1200 I think. I tried connecting to a local BBS but it all went wrong... so I gave up and didnt try again until 1998 when I got a freeserve account about the time they launched (I think). So I dont have any memories of anything before 1998.

monaghan · Post #10 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:46 PM

Guess I'm just old and strange then

Matthew · Post #11 (**permalink**) 03-07-2006, 05:48 PM

Hahaha. What year was this all based in? I am guessing 1991 or 92?

monaghan · Post #12 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 01:16 AM

I was in the Amstrad tech support dept frm 87-89, guess I'd better pop down the post office and collect my pension now

Matthew · Post #13 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 03:33 AM

LOL

I do remember them days. I wasnt working though as I was a little too young. I would be about 10 years behind that date work wise.

monaghan · Post #14 (**permalink**) 03-09-2006, 04:45 AM

The funny thing though was even though we supported the Amstrad PC's the whole 2nd line support team used Amiga's at home