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I've been here for a decade

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First post, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2021-10-20, 00:05

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VOGONS truly is an amazing community. Hard to believe it's been a decade since I set up an account here.

Hope to have many more years here!

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 1 of 13, by DosFreak

Posted on 2021-10-20, 01:29

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Time flies.....will be 20yrs soon! Hopefully I can make it to 42.

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Reply 2 of 13, by Cyberdyne

Posted on 2021-10-20, 04:54

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Never looked on the date I registered, but yep.

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.

Reply 3 of 13, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2021-10-20, 07:08

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You should get out more often.

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Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 4 of 13, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2021-10-20, 08:43

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Another visitor! Stay a while; stay forever!

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Reply 5 of 13, by chinny22

Posted on 2021-10-20, 12:16

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Yeh time gets away from you.
When I joined XP was still common, things like NEC XR385 draughtboards, SS7 based hardware and 3dfx cards were still cheap and plentiful.
Now people are building XP based reto machines and the best "bang per buck" has crept upto S478 era.

Glad I got in when I did!

Reply 6 of 13, by WolverineDK

Posted on 2021-10-20, 14:59

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Now I feel old, I joined back in 2006. 15 bloody years ago.

Reply 7 of 13, by BitWrangler

Posted on 2021-10-20, 15:30

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A big thanks for keeping it going so long to all involved.

I've known of Vogons since the noughties, I might have posted when guest posting was allowed, there's even a small chance I made an account and forgot about it. But then I would be years in between visits, occasional browsing frenzies, until I got more active in retro bits again. I guess I didn't engage much in the past because it's only been the last 5 years the hardware sections got really lively, then of course, they weren't yet in existence early on.

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Reply 8 of 13, by Anders-

Posted on 2021-10-20, 15:46

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Reply 9 of 13, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2021-10-21, 00:55

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DosFreak wrote on 2021-10-20, 01:29:

Time flies.....will be 20yrs soon! Hopefully I can make it to 42.

I'm amazed at the fact that VOGONS is nearly old enough to drink in the USA if it were a person. Wild, man.

Tbh, I technically found out about VOGONS way earlier, thanks to the DOSBox project, which I took a particular interest to in around 2003 or so.

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 10 of 13, by badmojo

Posted on 2021-10-21, 09:23

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Hey look at that, 10 years and 10 days here. My interest in retro computing has come and gone in that time but hasn't ever left, and VOGONS has had a significant hand in that. Thanks lads 👍

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Reply 11 of 13, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman

Posted on 2021-10-21, 15:53

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WolverineDK wrote on 2021-10-20, 14:59:

Now I feel old, I joined back in 2006. 15 bloody years ago.

Same here buddy. By the way, I miss the old guards: 5u3, Malik, Great Hierophant, Amigaz, to name a few.

Well at least DosFreak is still around.

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Reply 12 of 13, by WolverineDK

Posted on 2021-10-21, 17:41

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote on 2021-10-21, 15:53:

WolverineDK wrote on 2021-10-20, 14:59:

Now I feel old, I joined back in 2006. 15 bloody years ago.

Same here buddy. By the way, I miss the old guards: 5u3, Malik, Great Hierophant, Amigaz, to name a few.

Well at least DosFreak is still around.

Yeah DosFreak, is the only I have seen . Heck what about MiniMax, I miss him too. I think Malik pops in every now and then. But Amigaz is a name I have not heard in a long while. Heck I miss that fellow too 😀 Hey, if you guys reads this post. Let us bring back the old school, and kick some serious butt together !

Anders- wrote on 2021-10-20, 15:46:

Well, if nothing else, at least you guys are a stubborn lot 😁 😁

Indeed we are, or else we are just a bit crazy 😉

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Reply 13 of 13, by Stiletto

Posted on 2021-10-21, 18:03

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DosFreak has 29 hours on me 😁

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