Does anyone remember the old BBS days?

[aircooled]

I was there on the C64 front in the mid-80's

 

[DefDC]

I love you guys! Great memories of my old 300 baud VicModem in my C64. Then I upgraded to my blazing 1200b... After that, I went to college and had a blazing 19200 serial connection into the LAN right from the dorm room! Woo!

In my area, South Bend, IN, there were 3 dedicated Commodore BBSs and another handful of IBM BBSs. Great times sending and receiving email, meeting the sysops, making friends, and playing Empire and other great online games.

 

[AStar617]

I actually had to use zmodem like a month ago! :Q I used it to get pcmcia wifi drivers on my Toshiba Libretto 100ct with no ethernet/usb/floppy, a crusty old 4x pcmcia cdrom that hates cd-rs, and a fresh load of Win2k. Took some tweaking (parity/flow control) but worked like a champ, all md5 checksums ok!! Null modem cable FTW!

Slow but steady... Just like the good old days.

 

[KillyKillall]

I used a lot. I only recall QModem for some reason.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
LMAO those old "porn" games were so funny. When I was little, I downloaded a game called MCPOP (I think) on our old ega 286 from a BBS, and it was about this naked guy you moved around and had to find naked women to have sex with. Of course, you had to pick up a condom in the level first or else you'd get a disease and die. My mom caught me playing it and got pissed.

Holy sh!t I remember that! But I don't remember the name; a quick search on mcpop and the info looks right.

Damn. Memories.

 

[Kaervak]

TradeWars for the mother fvcking win. I almost failed a computer class in high school because of that damn game. Such great memories.

 

[Pakman]

Does anyone remember a BBS game called hackers? I forget the exact name. I remember a time when I played that, I actually thought I was destroying someone's actual PC... Oh, how naive of me... LOL... It was fun though.

 

[Rubycon]

Still have pro comm plus on 5? diskettes. :Q

 

[liluqt]

I remember paying $2000 for our very first computer.. it was a 386mhz, I think?

Anyways, back when I was in middle school I would usually frequent the "talker" chats via telnet as well as MUDs...I hopped on the occasional BBS as well.

Did anybody else ever use the program Telix?

Or lynx to the world wide web??

Or FTP files made in the DOS text editor onto geocities.com in order to create a webpage?

 

[Triumph]

All I remember from BBS days was watching my buddy try to get onto a Grateful Dead specific board and every time he logged on, he had to put in credit card info. I guess I wasn't nerdy enough, because I didn't get interested until AOL 1.0 came out.

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TreyRandom
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I ran a CNet-based BBS named Dreamscape on my C64, 1200 baud, single-line, from 1985 to 1988. Had over 300 users in the greater Nashville metro area. No warez, just chat.

I think I was on that board! i used most of the BBSs in the Nashville area during that time.

Candyland, Homestead, Cookie Jar, Bandit's Hideout, and more. Ah, those were the days.

What was your username back then? If you remember any of the following users, we probably crossed paths at some point:
Dreamguy
Nogoth
Punisher
Echolalia
Candyman
Marilyn
O'Hell
Bandit

I had a couple of get togethers at my house... a bunch of users brought their C64s, sorta like an old-school version of a LAN party.

I honestly cannot remember the names of the boards or the users. Seems like I remember a lady named "Marge", and John Siegenthaler's nephew Neil (IIRC) was someone I met IRL from the board. I may have been a bit before your time, '84-'85 was my senior year in highschool and I didn't use the BBSs as much when I was home from college.

 

[alkemyst]

TRADEWARS 2000

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TreyRandom

Originally posted by: SearchMaster

Originally posted by: TreyRandom
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I ran a CNet-based BBS named Dreamscape on my C64, 1200 baud, single-line, from 1985 to 1988. Had over 300 users in the greater Nashville metro area. No warez, just chat.

I think I was on that board! i used most of the BBSs in the Nashville area during that time.

Candyland, Homestead, Cookie Jar, Bandit's Hideout, and more. Ah, those were the days.

What was your username back then? If you remember any of the following users, we probably crossed paths at some point:
Dreamguy
Nogoth
Punisher
Echolalia
Candyman
Marilyn
O'Hell
Bandit

I had a couple of get togethers at my house... a bunch of users brought their C64s, sorta like an old-school version of a LAN party.

I honestly cannot remember the names of the boards or the users. Seems like I remember a lady named "Marge", and John Siegenthaler's nephew Neil (IIRC) was someone I met IRL from the board. I may have been a bit before your time, '84-'85 was my senior year in highschool and I didn't use the BBSs as much when I was home from college.

'87 was my senior year. I remember Marge. I've been on since '82ish.

 

[50cent1228]

nope

 

[CrackRabbit]

Ahh yes the nights spend playing MajorMUD and Lunatix, and the chatrooms!
I kinda miss those days.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Yup, I was a sysop for a BBS in Knoxville, TN. I miss those days. Tradewars, Empire, fun

 

[meltdown75]

Another former sysop here - ran a C=64 board on DS/2 software. 9th Nebula; 1200 baud

-=~! Melty !~=-

 

[0roo0roo]

yea watched it not on netflix yet, but u can err find it on other bt sites

cute documentary..most of it was before my time, i caught the last gasp to play doom and warcraft with some work arounds to fake a lan connection or whatever. pretty horrible lag really, but it was amazing for its time. tried a dedicated gaming bbs, that was a pre dot bomb bomb. it just cost too much. anyways gaming was pretty lousy, 4 way was amazing to us at the time though. getting it to work was a serious pain in the ass. spent as much time figuring out how to get it to connect as play, then someone would pick up the phone or call and your connection was lost oh the suckiness.... it was bad.

 

[dmcowen674]

I designed Modems at Hayes Modems.

Made a ton of initialization strings.

Worked with sysops all over the word helping them optimize their modems.

Set up Prodigy Modem banks, then AOL Modem bank commands.

Ah the fun days.

 

[0roo0roo]

argh..now i remember init strings..trying to lower ping for doom

 

[d33pt]

anyone used HSLINK? Upload and download at the same time at full speeds, PLUS chat!

 

[aceO07]

Telix, Telemate, LORD, Tradewars.. those were good times. I remember I used to make simple scripts for trading between planets.

I still have my old old old saved telemate config files with my BBS lists.

 

[Shadowknight]

Oh, yeah. LORD, Barnesplatt, and downloading the shareware version of Duke Nukem 3D.

 

[Ranger X]

I *loved* multi-node sites running MajorBBS. Ahh memories of "Elite" sites where you can't create an account without a NUP (New User Password) and answering acronym questions like "What does INC stand for?". Some even had new user voting, which was a PIA. I remember going to BBS meetings and always being the youngest person in the entire gathering.

Ahh, the memories ...

 

[alkemyst]

anyone ever experiment with x.25/tymnet networks and venture over to QSD, Lutzifur, tchh, or altgiers?

Or part of a certain bridge line in the 305 area code early 90's