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Does anyone remember the old BBS days?

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Pakman

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Does anyone here remember the old BBS days? Man, those were the days. That was pretty much the Internet before the Internet actually existed for the mass public. Was anyone here a SysOp? I used to run a BBS called the Niteclub in Killeen, Texas back in the early 90s. I was just watching this thing documentary called "BBS The Documentary" and it brought back alot of memories.
 
what channel is the show on? i would watch that

i got my first modem in 1993, i paid $275 for a us robotics 14.4Kbps modem, most people were using 9600bps at the time

ran up some crazy phone bill, like $300 in long distance due to BBS's one month 😱
 
My older brother made our dad buy us our own phone line for our BBS use. My dad would get pissed when I'd call the ones in other counties because they were .25cents per call.
 
LOL!! Yeah I think I had Prodigy back then. Man I had a couple sheets of dial up numbers for BBS's at hand and went thru them all nightly!! Being a paying member helped to get extra nodes though. 😉 Man, 14.4 was fast then!!
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
what channel is the show on? i would watch that

i got my first modem in 1993, i paid $275 for a us robotics 14.4Kbps modem, most people were using 9600bps at the time

ran up some crazy phone bill, like $300 in long distance due to BBS's one month 😱
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It's not on any channel. It's out on DVD or torrent sites. It's like 8 parts. So far I've watched 2. They're about 50 minutes each I believe. Haha, I remember watching the lights on my modem flash a certain way and automatcially know what's going on. I remember the lights would flash a certain way depending on which protocal I would use to DL whether it was Xmodem, Kmodem, Ymodem, or my favorite Zmodem... haha.... Zmodem was awesome because it was bi-directional.
 
Yeah, I ran my BBS on a 2400 baud modem... It was awesome.... woooo... blazin... Computers were fun back then.
 
Originally posted by: Pakman
Originally posted by: FoBoT
what channel is the show on? i would watch that

i got my first modem in 1993, i paid $275 for a us robotics 14.4Kbps modem, most people were using 9600bps at the time

ran up some crazy phone bill, like $300 in long distance due to BBS's one month 😱
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It's not on any channel. It's out on DVD or torrent sites. It's like 8 parts. So far I've watched 2. They're about 50 minutes each I believe. Haha, I remember watching the lights on my modem flash a certain way and automatcially know what's going on. I remember the lights would flash a certain way depending on which protocal I would use to DL whether it was Xmodem, Kmodem, Ymodem, or my favorite Zmodem... haha.... Zmodem was awesome because it was bi-directional.
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ZModem FTW!!! And ATM0 for silence!! 😉

 
<--- 4 line sysop running renegades. Started with a 300 baud model whenre u had 2 take the phone off the hool and put on the top of the modem 🙂
 
I remember BBS's back in the early 80's.

I bought my first modem in 1983. It was a 300 baud Pocket modem for my C64. I oc'd it to 450 baud. LOL.

memories.......
 
Originally posted by: flot
Ran one for 4 years - still have a few computer shopper issues with my phone # in 'em.
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A friend of mine told me about a year or 2 ago that our numbers were still listed in the local free monthly computer publication. Oh, BTW... I ran Spitfire BBS software and also tried Wildcat as well as RoboBBS. I ran this on my 286 16mhz with a whopping 40MB hard drive and 1 meg of ram. I thought I was the shiznits. Now that I think about it, it wasn't that long ago.. I think it was 1991.

Bump for the friday people as well. Share your stories... I'm interested.
 
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