// Deep dives
Tech in detail
Some things are too specific for the story and too detailed for the glossary: individual devices, programs and documents from the mailbox era. Here each of them gets its own small page, with room for excerpts, context and, once available, pictures.
How it all started
The data rescue
Born from the wish to see the login screen again: Amigas from the basement, a leaking battery, BlueSCSI and WinUAE.
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Modems
From the Supra 2400 at a barbecue to the USRobotics Courier with HST. The speed journey, in sound.
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ISDN-Master & WilhelmTEL
The ISDN card that brought the Amiga onto the digital network – and the software that turned it into a comfort telephone.
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The mailbox software
Paragon, AmiExpress, Xenolink: three programs that ran Empire BBS over the years.
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How Fidonet worked
The structure of the worldwide mailbox network – hierarchical like DNS, with zones, nets, nodes, hubs and international gateways.
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