What did you use your computer for, before the internet?

[runequester]

Before the internet was a big thing, what sort of tasks did you use your computer for?

[runequester]

looks like lots of good memories

[runequester]

Before the birth of the Web, I used my main computer to run NASAU Beach BBS, which eventually became the site you see before you today.

Wayne

"roots of amiga.org"

What sort of stuff was on the BBS?

[runequester]

Honestly, I couldn't possibly remember at this point (25+ years ago), save to characterize it as "legal" and "All Amiga oriented".

That, and I remember paying about $1600 for 2x 155 MEGAbyte, Full-height, 5.25" RLL/MFM Maxtor hard drives to store the MASSIVE amounts of data involved, which at the time, made NASAU Beach one of the largest single-line BBSs around.  Damned thing sounded like a geiger counter going off in my apartment 24/7.

Lots of ANSI color coding as I recall as well.  The BBS is, in fact, the reason I built my first PC (it started on a home-built 8086 with an Amber monitor, and eventually moved up through a 386 before being replaced by the web.

Fair enough, and thank you for the insights

Was that 1600 per drive or for both?