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Originally Posted by pornopete
Oh you ran it on windows! DesqView was actually the best.
LOL! Time bank!
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No not at all - that is just a screenshot I found of WWIV.
My computers were TRS-80's with 16k of Ram or something like that, and a 360k "Double Sided Double Density" floppy drive. I think the processor was a Z-80 2MHz or something like that...
The computer wouldn't multi task so I needed 2 computers with 1 x 1200 baud modem each (Hayes compatbile I think). My friend Rick wrote a simple way for these 2 computers to "network" by way of the cassette ports in machine language. We hooked up the computers via the ports by connecting the SPKR OUT Cable to the AUX IN, and Vice-Versa but it didn't work at first. I determined the signal (audio) wasn't loud enough so I went to Radio shack and bout 2 little 5-amp amplifier kits and hooked it up. These amps made too much noise which generated errors so I had to add a little noise filter to fix it, then finally tweaking the volume controls to get the best sound possible to make the network connection happen. Talk about lots of fucking fun!!! I loved it. THAT was the good ol' days... Once this was happening, a person logged in to the first computer could actually, really, real-time chat with the person on the other computer! WOW!!
My parents though were still not impressed...then again they didn't understand what I was doing. Still fun tho.