Tony is a Geek

" What the...? Why?.....Really?.... Have you got nothing better to do? " These are all the types of phrases I've heard from Mrs.IsAGeek all week....well, I am on "vacation" this week, during a Global pandemic, with a Lockdown being placed on us all...so I can't go anywhere... So, what is a late 40s IT Geek meant to do?.... setup a BBS, of course! CLICK HERE FOR A VISUAL AND TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO DO THAT So, fire up your 56k Baud modem, strap yourself in.....and let's go back to the 1990s! CLICK HERE FOR A VISUAL AND TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION OF HOW TO DO THAT and yes, here is a teaser - I did indeed get it all working (eventually), well, nearly, kind of.... Yep, those are real files available within the BBS....for me to download and use on the IBM PC 110 device.... except that one is precious, I'll wait until I get some of the TFT screens setup on the other devices before I use this too much.  Still, pretty awesome though.  Sigh...I'm such a ge...

Yes, you read that correctly.  I've finally managed to get my IBM PC 110 devices running MS-DOS and hooked up to the internet.  The follow page is basically a reminder for myself on how to take a stock device that may or may not have been purchased from Buyee.jp and get it configured for Internet awesomeness... CLICK THE LINK BELOW to READ & SEE HOW IT IS DONE: https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/p/setting-up-ibm-pc-110-for-wifi-from-ms.html It is indeed possible - if you have enough time and patience, which funny enough I seem to have an abundance of at the moment..... BTW - for context, the IBM PC 110 device is SMALL and I mean really small, considering it was made in 1995, the dimensions are: (HxWxD) (158mm x 113mm x 33mm) - it's the size of an external 3.5" floppy drive ( if you're old enough to remember what one of those is ) https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/p/setting-up-ibm-pc-110-for-wifi-from-ms.html CLICK THE LINK BELOW to READ & SEE HOW IT IS DONE: CLICK...