Who visited dial up BBS's in the '80's?

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: aircooled
I used to run a BBS from my bedroom on a Commodore64 back in the mid 80's... Only one user at a time could be online, I "upgraded" to a 1200 baud modem for better performance and I had 2 (count 'em 2) 5 1/4" external floppy drives to store all my data..... Ahh those were the days....

Me too. The good old days of computing. Nothing tops the mid 80's for freedom in computing. The technology was primitive compared to now, but things seemed more fun back then.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: aircooled
I used to run a BBS from my bedroom on a Commodore64 back in the mid 80's... Only one user at a time could be online, I "upgraded" to a 1200 baud modem for better performance and I had 2 (count 'em 2) 5 1/4" external floppy drives to store all my data..... Ahh those were the days....

Me too. The good old days of computing. Nothing tops the mid 80's for freedom in computing. The technology was primitive compared to now, but things seemed more fun back then.

I wasn't even around, then..

... IN the days of computing.. (i was like 5)

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Yield

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: aircooled
I used to run a BBS from my bedroom on a Commodore64 back in the mid 80's... Only one user at a time could be online, I "upgraded" to a 1200 baud modem for better performance and I had 2 (count 'em 2) 5 1/4" external floppy drives to store all my data..... Ahh those were the days....

Me too. The good old days of computing. Nothing tops the mid 80's for freedom in computing. The technology was primitive compared to now, but things seemed more fun back then.

I wasn't even around, then..

... IN the days of computing.. (i was like 5)

Young pup!

 

[SilverThief]

I did! Oh man that was a long time ago~!

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: Yield

Originally posted by: Iron Woode

Originally posted by: aircooled
I used to run a BBS from my bedroom on a Commodore64 back in the mid 80's... Only one user at a time could be online, I "upgraded" to a 1200 baud modem for better performance and I had 2 (count 'em 2) 5 1/4" external floppy drives to store all my data..... Ahh those were the days....

Me too. The good old days of computing. Nothing tops the mid 80's for freedom in computing. The technology was primitive compared to now, but things seemed more fun back then.

I wasn't even around, then..

... IN the days of computing.. (i was like 5)

Young pup!

in computing, i suppose..
i'll be 22 in May.

 

[danzig]

Downloaded my first pr0n on a BBS.

me to

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: danzig

Downloaded my first pr0n on a BBS.

me to

ascii porn?

 

[MrBond]

Originally posted by: no0b

Originally posted by: danzig

Downloaded my first pr0n on a BBS.

me to

ascii porn?

Maybe the GIFFY girls? I worked for a BBS (actually sold accounts) part time back in the early 90's. We had a huge collection of the GIFFY girls CDs. We were using about 4, 6 disk CD changers to serve shareware and the giffy girls CDs. My boss got his picture taken with one at BBSCon (anyone ever go to BBSCon?). I still subscribe to Boardwatch, although since Jack left, it's not the same magazine it was before (but he made out like a bandit when he sold the magazine, he dumped it before the dotcom bubble burst and ended up with something like eight figures from the sale). He was a real character

 

[dakata24]

started visiting bbs's in the 90's. started with a zoltrix 2400bps. upgraded to a Practical Peripherals 14.4Kbps and ran a single line bbs for a year or so using telegard 2.7. had one of those shareware cds you buy at the computer shows as my staple files for download.

pretty cool while it lasted. then this stinkin internet thing came along and ruined it..

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JLindo
1st computer was a CoCo with 16K of memory, then upgraded to 32K. Cartridges, regular tv's for monitors, tape drives to load programs and a 300baud Volksmodem. I remember those days very well.

Same here but I did build a Timex Sinclair 1000 Computer kit before got the CoCo. A year later I had the CoCo upgraded from the original 1 MHZ Motorola processor to a 2 MHZ Hitachi chip and 1 Meg of Ram. I wrote my own BIOS and operating system and was running 7 programs all at the same time. This was 1982 long before the IBM PC XT was born and certainly long before Windows. I've been online since 1983 and later when I moved to Atlanta helped design the 28.8, 33.6, 56K and DSL Modems. That's why I get so mad when I hear Al Gore invented the Internet. :|

 

[TallBill]

In 10 years will we remember remembering remembrances? :Q

 

[propellerhead]

MajorBBS back in the late 80s and early 90s. Gosh I loved the sound of the modem connecting. Some of the high-end BBSs has 8 lines. Woohoo!

 

[omega99]

I got my first comp in 99
what the heck is BBS and commandore?

 

[vegetation]

OK, anyone had dreams about setting up a huge multi-line bbs back then? My goal was to set up a 50+ line bbs system, with chat, file transfers, message boards, door games, etc, when I got older. Of course, the internet has totally destroyed my dream!

Originally posted by: propellerhead
MajorBBS back in the late 80s and early 90s. Gosh I loved the sound of the modem connecting. Some of the high-end BBSs has 8 lines. Woohoo!

 

[AndrewR]

I remember scouring through Computer Shopper's pages for the local BBS numbers to check out new listings. Accessed my first message board at some BBS I can't remember.

I splurged on a Hayes Optima 2400 baud modem back then. That's still the best looking modem I've ever seen -- cool metal exterior and exceptionally reliable from the king of modem manufacturers until that upstart U.S. Robotics screwed everything up.

And now I complain when I'm only getting 100Kbps download speeds on my ADSL...

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: bleeb
i used to log into Santa Maria Online down in Santa Maria, California. I also use to log onto a few local BBSes back in the day.

I used to live in Arroyo Grande in the mid 90's and frequented a few BBS's in the area. Lets see, there was 4th Dimension for a while.. Holodeck.. The Shop.. Elite Services or something.. Chthonic.. that's all I can remember.

Ah the memories, telnet BBS's just aren't the same.

You moved from here to Washington state? Ouch! lol

AG wo0t

Are you're referring to me? If so, Yup. I've been all over California, Oregon, and Currently live in Seattle.

 

[BMdoobieW]

Yes, I did, in the 1990's. I played some game about killing Barney.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: aircooled

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
90's

UGHH, now I really sound thirtysomething huh?

 

[conjur]

<--- raises hand

From my Atari 1200XL back in my college days in the mid/late-80s

 

[Pliablemoose]

I lived in a rural area & ran up a >$100 phone bill one month, sort of stopped my BBS'ing till the internet became more popular.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: AndrewR
I remember scouring through Computer Shopper's pages for the local BBS numbers to check out new listings. Accessed my first message board at some BBS I can't remember.

I splurged on a Hayes Optima 2400 baud modem back then. That's still the best looking modem I've ever seen -- cool metal exterior and exceptionally reliable from the king of modem manufacturers until that upstart U.S. Robotics screwed everything up.

And now I complain when I'm only getting 100Kbps download speeds on my ADSL...

, The same guys brought you the ADSL. We (group of us Engineers at Hayes) designed the Alcatel 1000 DSL Modem (working with the French) which became the world wide standard for DSL Modems. That was the last successful Hayes project in Norcross Georgia as it was closed down shortly after. Zoom has the rights now and they are still producing Modems under the Hayes brand .

 

[DaFinn]

Oh man...

Still have that 2400bps modem somwhere... and that 286 must still be with some shiz in my parents carage. :Q

One cannot really appreciate pr0n unless it has taken you like 12Hrs to download a single pic!!!



-DaFinn

 

[rudder]

I used to run a BBS as the Fairlight WHQ. Those were my dumber days when I did not know any better. I had a 4 node 14.4K BBS running Amiexpress on an Amiga 3000 with 20 megs of hard drive space.

 

[mpitts]

I ran one shortly, but most of my time was spent dialed into the "elite" BBS of our area.

 

[hevnsnt]

I ran an underground bbs named The BigHouse. That was back in the mid 90's