Thinking back to the "Golden Age of Dial-Up", does anyone have a Christmas gift that they were ecstatic about getting? A 9600 modem? New terminal or BBS ...
To all from the old Fidonet Days... May this season find you, and all your family well... Tony Davis Back then it was Tony, TonyOKC or Tonto Z1EC, RC19, REC19,...
Hi to all, Just thought I would pop in and leave a brief blurb about myself. In the late 70s and early 80s, I ran a Searchlight BBS called "The Control Tower"...
Last week I posted a message about the ASCII art of Star Wars IV that is posted over telnet at towels.blinkenlights.nl There have been posts here before about...
Too Funny! And WAY too much time on his hands. I remember how much time it took me to do just 1 picture! Telenet to: towel.blinkenlights.nl Done by Simon...
Hello.. like many here I suppose, I also owned a Commodore 64, and with a 300 baud (later 1200 baud) modem, I called into several BBS systems here in NYC. I'm...
For those who arent familiar with Calumet Online yet, its a friendly online community based on Firstclass 3.5 software with numerous conferences and many...
Been ever so dead lately. Wanted to bring your attention a few things. First, Jason Scott submission and nostalgic BBS discussion on Slashdot today; a review...
COMMODORK: Sordid Tales from a BBS Junkie By Rob O'Hara. 2006. Published by lulu.com. As someone who is bathed in Bulletin Board System (BBS) history nearly ...
Hi everyone - I joined this group awhile ago but never had the time to participate. Let me introduce myself. I am Richard Mark, and I created the SBI list -...
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Well, I figured I was getting lazy and wanted to write some sort of essay or article on the BBS world in 2006. So in the last week I've been telnetting...
I was browsing through some of the files in my bbs directory and came across these 2 newuser files I wrote for the board. The first one is a copy of the new...
... best way ... font. (I ... IT people ... data ... the whole com/ip thing is a nightmare....I gave up on that route. However, I did recently check out...
Hey folks, Im running a super-alpha version of CNet PC. This has been an off and on hobby of mine for quite awhile, modelling the system after the old...
Hello all, My only involvement in BBS's was annoying my older sister, who ran a BBS back sometime in the late 80's. I was to young back then to really...
Former sys0p of diabolica bbs [909] checking in. Ran 4 lines back in the day. Art, txt, apps, hpavc, etc... 600+ users, 22 networks, 43 states, 7 countries...
How do you pluralize BBS anyway? The easiest thing to do is lengthen it out to "Bulletin Board Systems," but how do you pluralize the acronym? BBSes? BBSs? ...
Must be viewed in terminal font w/o word wrap! <G> enjoy _ __ ______ _____________________ ______ ________________ _____ _________ ____\\___ \ ______...
Hey, just wanted to pass along that I was doing a bunch of digitization of my collection of vintage ads, brochures, catalogs, and the rest of the detrius of...
Thanks for the link. Now I get to drive my wife crazy with the old C-64! She has been trying to get me to toss that thing for years! HEEHAWS! How do ya like me...
In the 80's and 90's the Commodore 64 was the gate way to BBSing. I live California, on the out skirts of L.A. witch started as the (213). Then was (310, now...
Hello all. I don't know if any of the Birmingham, Alabama crowd is here or not. I used to run a BBS in the late 80s/early 90s in West Blocton, Alabama called...
Hello Jim. I was a long time user of Cnet back in the day. I was just wondering if you have any source code available from it? I always tinkered around...
Been very quiet lately. So I figured I'd post something slightly off-topic but probably of interest to a few people here. osnews.com links to an article today...
Hi Group, I am Jere May, aka Richard Miles, co-sysop of The Bull Bored back in the 80's and 90's. I just wanted to take a moment to say hello. I'm in the...
computer locked up and sentthe message twice....weird... ... Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less [Non-text portions of this...
Hey y'all. I was trying to search out some old BBS buddies today and found this group. I miss BBSing, but ah, the joys of Google. I used to run a GTPower BBS...
Some may or may not know that I've been uploading the full interviews conducted with people for the documentary to archive.org. These are Creative Commons...
