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This thread is bringing back serious memories.
Wow. Port Royal BBS was my home on the modem lines.
I ran a bbs called SplitInfinity, which is obviously still the name I use
today for my hosting company. :-) Lots of history behind that name
with me.
I started with a Commodore PET CBM machine, tape drive and dot matrix printer.
My school (Pine Valley in San Ramon, CA area) allowed students to rent the computers to take home for the weekend. I did that and ended up never leaving
the house on the weekends, just sat around programming.
poke this peek that. Lots of fun!
Tape Drives suck. Those are a bad memory.
Then I had these computers...
TRS80
Timex Sinclair (hahahah)
Apple II
Applie IIe
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore C-64
Commodore C-64 Portable OH MY GOD WAS THIS HUGE AND HEAVY
Apple IIgs
Apple III
Applie Mac
Ibm 8086 style....
Ibm 286, 386, 486, and up.....
Ran a BBS on Apple IIgs using GBBS software (Rocks!)
Used to program it with "ACOS" the All Communications Operating System
that Greg programed. Very cool. It was like a perl language to make BBS's.
My computer of choice ended up being Macintosh,
however my unix background keeps me tied to unix (linux) because
I love programming on that platform.
I use a dual G5 mac today with 4 monitors (20" each) and mac osx,
which is a developers dream OS because it is based on unix.
Woohoo!
Hey you need a web host? Ring me up.
ICQ me. I would love to host ALL old-school hacks on this board.
If you know what loderunner is, I would be honored to host ya!.
Oh, and how about those modems where you placed the handset in the
rubber cradle? HAHAHAHHAAH 300BPS slow as hell.
AppleCat modems rock.
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