@Ellico2020bis I needed the batch file book for working on my old BBS back in the early 90s. Damn .bat file printed out to IIRC 12 pages :)

@NorthernInvader I never dealt with a bat file that long, even on DEC VMS! I first used the FORTRAN book on a PDP-8, while still in elementary school.

@Ellico2020bis Well my BBS was connected to about 6 other BBS networks and getting it to dial them up at regular times to exchange netmail and game updates (I had quite a few games on it that were played over the various star networks I was connecting to), then process everything was (for me) a bit of challenge.

I ran it first on a Packard Bell 386 SX16 16MHz processor, 1MB of RAM and 120MB HDD. given everything I ran on it at the time I ran into a number or IRQ conflicts

@NorthernInvader When I first married, spouse had a "Leading Edge" XT/8088. The next computer we bought was a 386SX/16, though I paid extra to get 2MB RAM, which was useful only as a RAM-drive at the time, really. The next computer was a Packard Bell 486/DX2-66.

The quietest hard drive I ever had was a 110MB Seagate I bought off a BBS for the 386, 11ms seek wasn't bad then, either. Still have it (not in use, obvs).

@NorthernInvader We paid $800 for that computer, JFC, in 1991 dollars. That was a friggin investment.

@Ellico2020bis sure was

@Ellico2020bis Good for a laugh - going through some stuff awhile back I found this - Don't have a DAT tape player, a DOS computer, a modem, a landline, and I'm sure all of the networks I connected to are all gone now 🤣 so It's just a memento of some awesomely fun times.

@NorthernInvader I took an Exabyte (or DAT, not sure) backup of my job computer in the 90's, mostly to hoard old emails, but I apparently did an errant "mt wtm" after the backup (I must've thought I used the non-rewind /dev and had used the rewind /dev). Ugh. Still have some mini tower with an Exabyte installed, was to have been a backup server.

@NorthernInvader Did you have an 8-bit SoundBlaster?
SET BLASTER=A220 I4 D1

@Ellico2020bis Yes - and it was the source of a few of those conflicts IIRC