Category: Photos

Summer in 1991 after a First Saturday Sale in which 8MB of RAM and an additional hard disk were purchased for SDF. On the left is the original SDF-1 Apple ][e running Magic City Micro BBS connected to (214)436-3281 to answer calls with a message regarding the “upgrade”. On the right is a 386 in a mid tower case and below that is an empty “server” case which was donated by Aaron Schmiedel (aaron). The contents of the 386, 5.25″ floppy drive, 40MB and 120MB MFM drives as well as the new 8MB of RAM and a 338MB ESDI disk and controller from Stephanie Linebarger (srl). The system at this time ran Kodak Interactive 386 UNIX (System Vr3.2). Dial up was provided with 4 lines in a rotary hunt group along with a separate line dedicated for UUCP. Hugin Sweda 212a, two 2400bps, a 9600bps and a 19.2kbps Trailblazer PEP modems (UUCP only).

This is essentially what SDF looked like from mid 1991 through 1993. The Hugin Sweda 212a modem used in 1991 was no longer being in use and the fourth line was dedicated to the Telebit Trailblazer PEP modem for UUCP with a host of lonestar.org nodes such as letni (SMU), adaptex (Adaptec Corp), egsner (CIRR) and others.

SDF after the move to another unit in the same apartment complex in Lewisville Texas. This is the last picture of SDF as an 386 running Kodak Interactive UNIX.