02-04-2008, 01:32 PM | #23 | |
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To me, it all started in the late 70's with a commodore PET. That's the computer I wanted, but I ended up with a trs80 model I. I was running three 80 track double sided floppy drive (overtracking them) to store all the data on my board. I had a fourth drive but that was a boot drive (40 track shuggart single sided). That was a hot setup then. Gary |
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02-13-2008, 06:37 PM | #24 |
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I miss those days in some ways. It was like you were part of a cool (well maybe not that cool to other people) underground community. I remember downloading the ACiD and ICE ascii art packs advertising BBS's etc... Some of the artwork was incredibly creative considering their limitations. -BMW2006 |
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02-14-2008, 07:34 AM | #25 | |
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Hello, Yes I ran two BBS in the 80's (Pirat's Guild Main & Sigma Systems). I gave up after fidonet broke down and was hard keeping a subscription base for the new and upcomming internet connectivity. We were bigger than Prodigy for a while. he he btw, the Commodore PET rocked! So did the VIC 20. |
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02-20-2008, 04:04 PM | #26 |
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late 80's here, running 1200 baud and designing some of that primitive ASCII art for "sites"
Then the 90's rolled around and we started using IRC bots at the university to distro files to all the leechers...those days were definitely interesting
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03-25-2008, 11:39 PM | #27 | |
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ATDT2320565 BUSY ATDT2320565 BUSY ATDT2320565 CONNECT 2400 BAUD I wasn't into the chat as much as the message boards on the Hacker/Phreaker/Anarchy/Virus/Crack boards... It was amaizing what happened when you put a bunch of intelligent minds together to collaborate in a trusted online environment... That environment will never exist again. I will mention, that the WWW has finally gotten to the point that those boards got to in the early 90s (messages, files, email, games, chat, etc.)... Check out www.CasualCollective.com ; It's the first online community that i've seen that really comes close to what BBS's centered around door games used to be.. you remember Baren Realms Elite (BRE), Tradewars 2002, Falcon's Eye (FE), and Legend of the Red Dragon (LORD)? |
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03-25-2008, 11:40 PM | #28 | |
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If you want a blast to the past, telnet to www.phringe.org and you'll be connected to a GTALK system that is still active durring certain hours of the day. |
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