Check it out: http://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n3/magicsacpro.html Seriously, who wouldn't want this? It's sad the Atari was bludgeoned at a game machine in the...
... From: Gene Buckle <geneb@...> Subject: Re: [80sBBS] More on MagicSac To: 80sBBS@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 12:41 PM Well the...
So I was reading through some old issues of Compute! from the 80s. The March '86 issue had a few interesting bits. I would have been in 8th grade at the time....
A number of years ago I was contacted by someone from this group who was interested in having a copy of my old BBS, and since I wasn't doing anything with it I...
I didn't call many BBSes in the Baltimore area (wasn't it 301 during the early 80's?), but I was very much into calling the Washington DC area ones during the...
I'm looking for an Original copy in original packaging of DMBBS v5. I purchased a copy when it was first released, actually Pro-Ordered it back in the day, It...
Can someone point me at a voip provider that supports the G.711 codec? I want to spend some time working with lower speed modems in order to write up a how to...
Greetings all, Been waiting on this to happen for a long time now, and it finally has. I've been authorized, at long last, to give sticks away to anyone who...
http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm This is another one of those "scam the scammer" cons. For why it is relevant to this list, you'll need to scroll...
I'm thinking of putting up my own BBS system. I used to be a Sysop in the 80's in Atlanta with a system called PC Realm (NoChange based). What's a good...
I've been playing with this thing: http://www.mono.org/ It's the weirdest BBS program I've ever played around with. It most closely resembles what I got thrown...
...how are we going to get some non retro geeks to use these BBSes. How? How? How? Because, I am midway into putting hundreds of hours into a complete rewrite...
Anybody have boardwatch magazines that they can scan? i'd like to see this part of bbs history preserved. if you dont want to go through the time of scanning...
Hello all! I ran a part-time BBS in Atlanta called PC Realm. Looking for other Atlanta Sysops and users to join the Atlanta BBS Alumni on Facebook. Love to...
For the past few years, I've been running what has been, for most of that time, the only Commodore-run dial-up BBS anywhere in the world. Borderline BBS has...
I just added a new way to connect to both Cottonwood BBS and Cottonwood II. You can now connect from a web browser with FlashTerm. This is a great way to...
Hello. My name is Nathan. I actually ran a BBS in the mid 90s. I am thinking of starting a BBS up again and I was/am looking for a forum to help me on my...
Gents - a Status Update: Gene's heroic efforts have enabled me to make great strides. Many thanks Gene! He has graciously offered to pull MORE data off a...
The drives... have been SHIPPED. UPS, sorry Gene, and I liked the guy who packed them. I said "The recipient has requested a box made of depleted uranium."...
Fear not! You need not wait for Gene to receive the drives before assisting him in the task at hand with your accumulated wisdom. I have whipped up a very...
Does anyone here read this group via email with a reader that in theory would also work with .qwk format and packets? That is, did some .qwk mail programs also...
Hey Doc, I still have those SCSI hard drives with old source code files locked on them. Seems to me somebody like you (or somebody who looks like you) was...
I'm curious if any of you folks had any software that you grew attached to. If I recall, I sort of liked Robomail for awhile, along with one or two others. I...
I think there are some similarities to old-style BBS's. If one uses Thomson ONE Equity or Bloomberg, one might not at first think "BBS", but I see some...
Hi folks. I was trying to recall an incident where a BBS was busted for bomb-making files back in the 1980s. I remember reading about it in the newspaper at...
Hello everyone: I posted a few days ago from email and saw that my post did not show up. I posted again just to be sure, and nothing got through. I sent an...
