Re: World-wide 8-bit computer sales (all-time)?

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

vairxpert wrote ...

>I did the RLL thing...it worked great with certain drives.  I was able
>to squeeze 32 megs out of an MFM drive that way.  Sleazgates just
>wouldn't fly with that trick though.

I used a 20 meg MFM Seagate with a Western Digital RLL card.  I did have to
do a low-level format to get it to work though.  This was after Seagate
started including install software on a 5 1/4" disk in the box with their
drives.  The software made low-level formatting easy.

>I loved the BBS's back then and how each would brag in the opening
>screen about the amount of online space they had.  I remember being
>blown away when "Last Chance" upped his to 85 megs!

I remember one BBS using five 286's networked together.  With two 50 meg
drives in each box.  He had five phone lines and a modem in each computer
for a 5 node system.  One line was free (and _always_ busy).  It was worth
ten bucks a year to become a subscriber and be able to connect on the other
four lines.

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
     Last 8-bit BBS in the Dallas area.  Commodore lives!