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- From: lowen@lorc.eskimo.com (Lamar Owen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: Tandy 6000 Discussion
- Message-ID: <Nb3PrA6IBh107h@lorc.eskimo.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:51:09 -0500
- References: <1992Dec23.200136.3284@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: LORC Enterprises
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- In <1992Dec23.200136.3284@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> sscrivan@nyx.cs.du.edu (steve scrivano) writes:
- >So what good is a Tandy 6000? You could run a BBS with it but with some
- >limitations on newsfeeds and disk storage;
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- >I think it would be of interest to the net to here what others use their 16/6000
- >machines for. Feel free to tell your story. Perhaps others can get a sense of
- >what these machines can be use for.
-
- Just a few months ago (actually, spring of 92), my feed site, Eskimo North, was
- running 11 interactive BBS lines on a 4MB RAM, 140MB HD, Tandy 6000. The responce
- was not the best in the world, but when you have 11 users on the box, what do you
- expect!
-
- Eskimo is now a Sun 3/280.
-
- >Steve Scrivano
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