Any OTA updates yet?

[roadpilot]

Unfortunately it’s the accepted norm. Fully baked went out the window with os/2

OS/2? ROTF! You are as old as dirt and as old as I am!

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[135Hoser]

OS/2? ROTF! You are as old as dirt and as old as I am!

Your sense of humour is just warped.

 

[MCS]

Sadly; you gents are not wrong and it's not just FMC. Many organizations, both public and private, have adopted the MVP approach to software development. Push out the half baked Minimum Viable Product as fast as you can and then move on to the next project; leave your B-Team to deal with "Incidents" and "Enhancement" requests.

They call it AGILE and LEAN but it basically means "make as much as you can, as cheaply as you can, as fast as you can, with as few people as possible, then charge as much as you can".

 

[steveo1960]

OS/2? ROTF! You are as old as dirt and as old as I am!

Same!

It was a great OS way ahead of it's time but with horrible marketing.
Loading ~30 1.44mb diskettes to install it was , ahem, interesting. Especially if it would pop CRC errors on the 25th diskette... lol !!1

 

[roadpilot]

Same!

It was a great OS way ahead of it's time but with horrible marketing.
Loading ~30 1.44mb diskettes to install it was , ahem, interesting. Especially if it would pop CRC errors on the 25th diskette... lol !!1

I ran a multi-line BBS (bulletin board system) under OS/2 using Maximus BBS software. That was after years of running T.A.G. BBS software under DOS (multiple machines) and, later, under DESQview. At one point, I had nearly a dozen phone lines @ my house.

Ahh, the pre-Internet commercialization days.

 

[steveo1960]

I ran a multi-line BBS (bulletin board system) under OS/2 using Maximus BBS software. That was after years of running T.A.G. BBS software under DOS (multiple machines) and, later, under DESQview. At one point, I had nearly a dozen phone lines @ my house.

Ahh, the pre-Internet commercialization days.

Ahh the good old days! I was running Wildcat! and later on PCBBS (I think?) but just to fool around with. I offered shareware and it was a good place for close friends to swap software, sell gear and chat. I think I was running it under DesqView at the time. I did manage to get a heavily discounted US. Robotics HST modem from the company. I remember it had a plate affixed to it to discourage resale. Those were really great times that today's generation missed out on..

 

[jboogie1289]

Couldn’t find this message thread but posted in another OTA thread, but here is what I received overnight ….

 

[roadpilot]

I did manage to get a heavily discounted US. Robotics HST modem from the company. I remember it had a plate affixed to it to discourage resale.

I still have one of mine ...

Those were really great times that today's generation missed out on..

Absolutely.

 

[rugedraw]

Couldn’t find this message thread but posted in another OTA thread, but here is what I received overnight ….

Just checked your VIN. This one is different from the first ABS update first reported in March. I'll add it to the OTA history thread.

 

[smurfslayer]

OS/2? ROTF! You are as old as dirt and as old as I am!

VINTAGE, not old

 

[MCS]

Ahhh modems and BBS lol

I had an AT&T 2400 BPS modem that I got from my uncle when I was like 12(ish). Eventually ran a Wildcat BBS (paid for version) then I think I did RABBS and then SuperBBS. Can't remember the order of the last two.

Trade Wars anyone?!?!?!?! No? How about Yankee Trader? LOL

Remeber ECHOMAIL? Where your computer would dial another computer, which was your regional hub, once a day (or whatever you set) and download your mailpackets then extract and index it? How about ZModem Protocol?!?!?!

Ok, we are all officially old as dirt now, all of us!

 

[roadpilot]

I did manage to get a heavily discounted US. Robotics HST modem from the company. I remember it had a plate affixed to it to discourage resale.

Here ya go, @steveo1960:

 

[Zig]

Ahhh modems and BBS lol

I had an AT&T 2400 BPS modem that I got from my uncle when I was like 12(ish). Eventually ran a Wildcat BBS (paid for version) then I think I did RABBS and then SuperBBS. Can't remember the order of the last two.

Trade Wars anyone?!?!?!?! No? How about Yankee Trader? LOL

Remeber ECHOMAIL? Where your computer would dial another computer, which was your regional hub, once a day (or whatever you set) and download your mailpackets then extract and index it? How about ZModem Protocol?!?!?!

Ok, we are all officially old as dirt now, all of us!

Here ya go, @steveo1960:

Days/daze gone by, nntp before http popularity

 

[steveo1960]

Here ya go, @steveo1960:

Oh the memories!!! Mine is long gone :(
Thanks!

 

[Zig]

Couldn’t find this message thread but posted in another OTA thread, but here is what I received overnight ….

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