Welcome to the 1980s BBS Scene mailing list, created in the wee hours of November 28, 2000. My name is Rex Iscariot, also known over the years as: Jake Century...
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Epsilon Process
epsilon@...
Nov 29, 2000 5:56 am
Hey Rex! Ain't that a crazy coincidence! I happen to have a very similar history. And not only that, I have often thought about opening a historical BBS site...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Nov 29, 2000 8:02 am
... You're not kidding. New Jersey was WIRED man, very wired for a state...Never hurt for boards or ISPs or anything! ... I remember the Vicmodem. I never...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Nov 29, 2000 8:14 am
I would add that I *just* started this list, and there's only three of us so far, so if traffic is a little slow, it's because basically it's a day old. I...
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joe@...
Nov 29, 2000 7:02 pm
Greetings, all. Reading the few posts, I'm filled with memories from years before. Granted, I never BBS'd in the 80's.. but I picked it up around 93 - when I...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Nov 29, 2000 7:53 pm
... Welcome aboard Joe. It's good to see that people are still running BBSes and keeping the concept alive! ...
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Epsilon Process
epsilon@...
Nov 30, 2000 6:16 am
... California was another great state for board-hopping. They loved multiline DLX systems there. A few of the first matchmaker boards I called were out there...
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jason@...
Dec 1, 2000 5:14 am
Hi, it's Jason Scott of TEXTFILES.COM. I was just going to lurk, but then I saw the absolutely excellent caliber of messages being posted so far. So complete,...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Dec 1, 2000 9:34 am
... Thanks Jason, I'd really appreciate a link from textfiles.com. I'd be happy to send on any kind of modifications to that that you want to my story - do...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Dec 1, 2000 10:19 am
... I remember that, the California sections on the BBS lists being large. New York had quite a few as well, as I recall. ... My parents were under the...
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jason@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:48 am
What I'd like is a flat-out textfile with all the things you want to say. I won't massage it or modify it; I'll just put it into the history section and leave...
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brucejames@...
Dec 6, 2000 4:40 am
Hi to all on list I started using local bbses in charleston wva in 1984 on a coco 1 with 16 k memory and a cassette drive 300 baud modem at that time we had 3...
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Epsilon Process
epsilon@...
Dec 9, 2000 1:56 am
This is an interesting article written back in 1989 by Ward Christensen and Randy Seuss who are widely regarded as the fathers of the BBS. The first BBS ever...
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toxicanarchist@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:26 am
... i can't believe there are dudes these days that consider themselves elite. can someone please fill me in on just what exactly is so elite about going to...
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Epsilon Process
epsilon@...
Dec 9, 2000 7:46 pm
Yep, that's sadly what it has come to today. But even so, people like Randy and Ward "hacked" in what was the original sense of the word. They were hardware...
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Edward Cowling
edward@...
Dec 10, 2000 10:50 am
In message <90u27c+lbo7@eGroups.com>, Epsilon Process <epsilon@...> writes ... I think it's sad that a group I hoped would be about BBS nostalgia seems...
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jason@...
Dec 10, 2000 4:22 pm
... memory ... seems ... up ... Good riddance. Some of us, when we think of BBS nostalgia, don't want to put ourselves in the role of forgetting what in fact...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Dec 10, 2000 8:41 pm
... That's just weird, man. -Rex ============================================================= Rex Iscariot <quag7@...> - Tucson, Arizona - USA ...
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Epsilon Process
epsilon@...
Dec 10, 2000 10:01 pm
Somehow I think he missed the entire point of the discussion, which was indeed about how BBSes got started, how they evolved during the 80's and 90's and the...
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toxicanarchist@...
Dec 10, 2000 10:29 pm
Its kinda ironic that these pd people, with their 'mega shareware' boards think they did something to better, or even advance the bbs scene back then. Bad...
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mason@...
Dec 14, 2000 9:37 am
Hi everyone! I have seriously enjoyed reading this board so far. Let me introduce myself a little. well, the name is Mason, or if you prefer "Wile Coyote",...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Dec 14, 2000 3:24 pm
... Welcome aboard! The list has been a little slow because I haven't put the energy into it to facilitate discussions because suddenly all hell has broken...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Dec 15, 2000 3:13 pm
I thought some of you might be interested in this article about the first e-mail sent through Arpanet, from one machine to another: ...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Jan 8, 2001 10:42 am
I started this list several weeks ago and then my life got all hectic and I never got to start it exactly how I wanted to. I'm looking at egroups, and I'm...
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mrasmodeus@...
Jan 8, 2001 3:04 pm
I guess I'll start off. Had the handle Asmodeus for about 13 years or so now. First time I ever dialed out? A guy my dad knew saw I was into computers and ...
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mason@...
Jan 8, 2001 8:54 pm
I remember I called my neighbors BBS. He set it up specifically to let me call into it. and his little sister kept picking up the phone and saying "Hello?...
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doctor x
doctorx@...
Jan 9, 2001 10:47 pm
Hello all.. I ran hacking/phreaking related bbs's since about 1983 or so. I started running Atari BBS's, then moved to IBM based software shortly thereafter.. ...
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Rex Iscariot
quag7@...
Jan 9, 2001 11:16 pm
... Sounds great. I can only do so much to facilitate things here. I invite anyone who is subscribed to start on any topic. Good to hear from you. ...
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beave@...
Jan 10, 2001 1:33 am
... but ... Wow.. You just took the words out of my... err.. keyboard. Its funny, I can almost "see" these types of posts on my old favority 'Elite' BBS...
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beave@...
Jan 10, 2001 3:40 am
Hello all.. What a great place this is... Lets see, to make this a little more condensed, I'll just rattle off somethings... First Computer: TI/994A......
