@phooky

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Do you still have those ANSI files you made? They've gotta be somewhere.

@rogzilla71
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I wish! I've been looking for them. Unless Dad has an old hard drive in the attic these are gone forever.

@jmjm @rogzilla71 @phooky I'm pretty sure I explicitly remember him getting rid of the AT&T 6300, which (among other reasons) is a shame because it's an actual museum piece now. mmmmaybe there's a box of floppies somewhere?

@jmjm @rogzilla71 @phooky Dad is here right now, and I asked him what happened to the 6300. Quoth the dad: "I threw it out." "What about the hard drive and floppies?" "I threw them out." "But wh--" "In the trash."

@jmjm @rogzilla71 @phooky There was an aura of finality about the "In the trash."

So. Time to make new ANSI art? There are some pretty badass BBSes around nowadays (for serious).

@phooky @jmjm @phooky

Sounds like it's time to revive an old medium!

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky
Here's a cute editor: http://andyherbert.github.io/ansiedit/public/index.html

Pour one out for that AT&T 6300 with the upgraded NEC V30 (?) processor.
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@jmjm
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Wasn't it a PC/AT clone (80286)? I was jealous because I only had a PC/XT clone (8088). I also remember you guys had a Bernoulli Box.

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky It was an 8086 (or 8086 clone), just running at a higher clock speed (internet claims ~7MHz, I remember 10MHz for some reason). Apparently AT&T had very little to do with it other than the sales channel; it was a rebadged Olivetti M24.

They're on ebay, but even at $50 not really worth it:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-AT-T-Personal-Computer-6300-Olivetti-M24-PC1050-Motherboard-8086-CPU/312171727796?hash=item48aee28bb4:g:9ooAAOSwPI1axrrP

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky (I already have a half-working Osborne I on my conscience.)

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THE BERNOULLI BOX! The 8" floppy drive that sounded like a jet engine!