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  • J.R.
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    • Feb 2002
    • 3479

    #1

    Any Old Timers Remember the term " SYSOP " ??

    Yeah Baby!

    I was one back in the late 1980's when
    I ran my own Commodore 64 BBS from my parents
    telephone from 10pm to 7am!

    Those were the days..

    For those who don't know (newbies ), SYSOP was the original
    name before the Internet = WEBMASTER

    So, SYSOP = WEBMASTER!

    (system operator)
    Last edited by J.R.; 05-05-2004, 03:54 PM.
  • KaLi
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    • Aug 2003
    • 4371

    #2
    For some reason I knew this.

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    • EviLGuY
      So Fucking Banned
      • Apr 2003
      • 12745

      #3
      Yeah I ran my own 2 line renegade bbs back in the day.

      Well it was 1.5 lines since during the evening my family expected to be able to use the phone.. bastards.

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      • WarChild
        Let slip the dogs of war.
        • Jan 2003
        • 17263

        #4
        Yeah, I used to run a Commodore 64 Blueboard myself.

        Followed by an Apple multi line chat board.

        I actually get a chuckle out of people throwing around the term "newbie" here on GFY.

        I've had a personal computer, since they were first available in a kit you had to build.. Followed by Vic20s, Commodore 64s, apple II, Apple IIe, PC Junior .. Fuck the list goes on and on.

        I remember using DATAPAC before there was any Internet. Or multi line chat BBS systems, also before the internet.
        .

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        • TheMob?
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          • Jan 2003
          • 8584

          #5
          I used to be a sysop on my Hotline server.

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          • J.R.
            WantBoobs.com
            • Feb 2002
            • 3479

            #6
            Yeah, newbie term is funny..

            I had a computer since they were first around..

            Vic 20 and so on

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            • jimmyf
              OU812
              • Feb 2001
              • 12651

              #7
              yep

              I remember 300 baud.

              I remember when they said 2400 baud was the Max. couldn't go any faster with phone lines.

              I remember when i did a lot of online Maint. 2 transfer one .exe 360 k took me 20 to 25 min's (at 2400 baud). of course i got paid by the hour and we used Remote2 so the customer's computer would call us back used there dime. This was before PCanywhere came out,

              I remember crosstalk ever use it.
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              • leg4
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                • May 2003
                • 4429

                #8
                1650 modem? or the 1600?
                300bps


                C-net?

                or Ravics?



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                • jimmyf
                  OU812
                  • Feb 2001
                  • 12651

                  #9
                  Originally posted by WarChild
                  Yeah, I used to run a Commodore 64 Blueboard myself.

                  Followed by an Apple multi line chat board.

                  I actually get a chuckle out of people throwing around the term "newbie" here on GFY.

                  I've had a personal computer, since they were first available in a kit you had to build.. Followed by Vic20s, Commodore 64s, apple II, Apple IIe, PC Junior .. Fuck the list goes on and on.

                  I remember using DATAPAC before there was any Internet. Or multi line chat BBS systems, also before the internet.
                  I had a Vic20.
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                  • Paul Waters
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                    • Mar 2003
                    • 4402

                    #10
                    Oh fuck..... bring back the memories...

                    Four line adult chat and message BBS. 1987 to 1995.....

                    Real bitch to set up under DOS. Ports, interrupts, conflicts....LOL



                    Paul

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                    • warlock5
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 2808

                      #11
                      My first modem was 2400 baud

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                      • Overscore
                        Confirmed User
                        • Aug 2002
                        • 316

                        #12
                        QSYSOPR is still a daily one for me.
                        ¯Overscore¯

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                        • Sarah_Jayne
                          Now with more Jayne
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 40077

                          #13
                          I still think people should have to answer a quiz with that question on it if they want to come onto the internet for any reason other than buying porn.

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                          • smack
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                            • Mar 2002
                            • 10652

                            #14
                            now that's a word i haven't heard since i was leafing through the jolly roger's cookbook. wow. memories.
                            Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

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                            • bringer
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                              • Jul 2003
                              • 13082

                              #15
                              Originally posted by J.R.
                              Yeah Baby!

                              I was one back in the late 1980's when
                              I ran my own Commodore 64 BBS from my parents
                              telephone from 10pm to 7am!

                              Those were the days..

                              For those who don't know (newbies ), SYSOP was the original
                              name before the Internet = WEBMASTER

                              So, SYSOP = WEBMASTER!

                              (system operator)
                              i ran a renegade bbs on my 486, 14.4 BABY!
                              i wish they were still around, the interest is getting old.
                              maybe ill fire it back up and play some L.O.R.D.
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                              • tootie
                                Confirmed User
                                • Jun 2003
                                • 6041

                                #16
                                The Sysop of my favorite BBS died a few years ago in a freak accident. Apparently he was going skydiving and he walked into the propellor of the plane before takeoff.

                                I miss that BBS. I wish I could get in touch with some of my old friends. We used to go bowling and playing Q-Zar and stuff. Those were the days.


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                                • freeadultcontent
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Oct 2002
                                  • 9976

                                  #17
                                  And to think back then. Members would photocopy their ID and mail it along with a check or money order to get download credits for my naughty pictures. If you were lucky you could get 10 in a night at 2400 baud.

                                  At the high point we had a 10 line basic system, with an additional 22 lines for members only access. (download freaks and door junkies).

                                  I remember about shitting twinkies when modem speeds increased. Oh and getting that 50 disk CD changer that was a nightmare to figure out.

                                  Still have a few of the old adult cd's too.

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                                  • bringer
                                    i have man boobies
                                    • Jul 2003
                                    • 13082

                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by freeadultcontent
                                    And to think back then. Members would photocopy their ID and mail it along with a check or money order to get download credits for my naughty pictures. If you were lucky you could get 10 in a night at 2400 baud.

                                    At the high point we had a 10 line basic system, with an additional 22 lines for members only access. (download freaks and door junkies).

                                    I remember about shitting twinkies when modem speeds increased. Oh and getting that 50 disk CD changer that was a nightmare to figure out.

                                    Still have a few of the old adult cd's too.
                                    333-765-551

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                                    • jimmyf
                                      OU812
                                      • Feb 2001
                                      • 12651

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Paul Waters
                                      Oh fuck..... bring back the memories...

                                      Four line adult chat and message BBS. 1987 to 1995.....

                                      Real bitch to set up under DOS. Ports, interrupts, conflicts....LOL

                                      I had one customer wanted 4 serial ports one time, I forget what I put in some special board. Got done thougnt god I hope they don't fuck with that computer.
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                                      • kidtwist
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                                        • Jan 2003
                                        • 440

                                        #20
                                        me and my dad wer the sysops for ATUG (amiga tek uesrs group)
                                        go amiga!!!!

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                                        • cayne
                                          My time is coming...
                                          • Jan 2004
                                          • 7475

                                          #21
                                          sysop was the name of the operators from mail-boxes. (no internet)
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                                          • bringer
                                            i have man boobies
                                            • Jul 2003
                                            • 13082

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Paul Waters
                                            Real bitch to set up under DOS. Ports, interrupts, conflicts....LOL

                                            that was the fun part
                                            ++ATH0

                                            what dialers did you all use? i had some shitty dialer on my 386 with 2400 but once i got my 486 with the 14.4 i upgraded to telix
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                                            • StuartD
                                              Sofa King Band
                                              • Jul 2002
                                              • 29903

                                              #23
                                              Yeah, I had a BBS on my old 25Mhz Tandy computer with an 80 meg harddrive and 2 megs of ram.

                                              good times
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                                              • freeadultcontent
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                                                • Oct 2002
                                                • 9976

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by bringer
                                                Whats so funny bringer?

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                                                • StuartD
                                                  Sofa King Band
                                                  • Jul 2002
                                                  • 29903

                                                  #25
                                                  B.R.E. over FIDONet was where it was at.

                                                  And to think that Final Fantasy 11 is just now bringing people back to the worldwide community gaming spirit
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                                                  • bringer
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                                                    • Jul 2003
                                                    • 13082

                                                    #26
                                                    Originally posted by freeadultcontent
                                                    Whats so funny bringer?
                                                    thinking about that old shitty porn i used to hack bbs' to get.
                                                    id download picture after picture onto 1.44 floppies on a 2400.
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                                                    • freeadultcontent
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Oct 2002
                                                      • 9976

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by bringer
                                                      thinking about that old shitty porn i used to hack bbs' to get.
                                                      id download picture after picture onto 1.44 floppies on a 2400.
                                                      yeah, What was funny as hell is watching from the board end of it. Seeing one user connected for 2 days straight downloading.

                                                      Oh and since there were no thumbnail previews the text description links were your only indicator of what it was. Guess those were the infants of todays text links.

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                                                      • bringer
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                                                        • Jul 2003
                                                        • 13082

                                                        #28
                                                        Originally posted by freeadultcontent
                                                        yeah, What was funny as hell is watching from the board end of it. Seeing one user connected for 2 days straight downloading.

                                                        Oh and since there were no thumbnail previews the text description links were your only indicator of what it was. Guess those were the infants of todays text links.
                                                        hahaha
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                                                        1/2 the time is was shit, but i always seemed to want more
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                                                        • freeadultcontent
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                                                          • Oct 2002
                                                          • 9976

                                                          #29
                                                          Oh almost forgot. Another chuckle was watching your phone lines explode at midnight so everyone could get their turns in first with your door games. They knew if they did not do certain things before morning someone would toast them. I think Tradewars was the leader in this.

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                                                          • Sarah_Jayne
                                                            Now with more Jayne
                                                            • Dec 2002
                                                            • 40077

                                                            #30
                                                            Trade Wars got so heated on my local BBS that I actually witnessed one kid take out another in the hallway in high school because of it and none of the teachers had a clue.

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                                                            • Jaden
                                                              Confirmed User
                                                              • Feb 2004
                                                              • 151

                                                              #31
                                                              OOOOooo I remember that...and the 2400 baud. And Tradewars was the best....although I did play alot of Swords of Chaos.

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                                                              • freeadultcontent
                                                                Confirmed User
                                                                • Oct 2002
                                                                • 9976

                                                                #32
                                                                Originally posted by sarah_webinc
                                                                Trade Wars got so heated on my local BBS that I actually witnessed one kid take out another in the hallway in high school because of it and none of the teachers had a clue.
                                                                Hahahaha, yeah we used to put on TW contests for cash. Want to talk about heated.

                                                                At any given time we had at least 7 games going. The craziest were the no rules ones, and the ones with all the mods added.

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                                                                • Arousal Design
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                                                                  • Jun 2002
                                                                  • 1358

                                                                  #33
                                                                  Renegade was awesome.

                                                                  I ran quite a few of my own RG boards and co-sysoped a ton of boards.

                                                                  Those were the days....

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                                                                  • StRoGE
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                                                                    • Mar 2004
                                                                    • 1713

                                                                    #34
                                                                    I LOVED swords of chaos and tradewars!
                                                                    I still have my 2400 baud modem too! Of course its not in the computer, but I just cant part with it! ;)
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                                                                    • CheeseFrog
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                                                                      • Dec 2003
                                                                      • 1724

                                                                      #35
                                                                      I used Telemate and Telix for my dialers. Mostly hit up WWIV and Telegard boards. Norse Wanderer, Pod Bay Door, Club Playhouse/Dreamscape (24 line DLX board!). Those were the days...
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                                                                      • rowan
                                                                        Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                        • Mar 2002
                                                                        • 17393

                                                                        #36
                                                                        I'm always a few years behind bleeding edge, so while 386's with 4Mb RAM and a HD were entry level I was busy writing my own BBS software for an ageing BBC Model B Micro (6502 8 bit processor w/ 32k RAM, circa 1981). The BBS was written in BASIC and it had "read only" fidonet mail areas filled by capturing messages from a real BBS.

                                                                        I even started working on a multiline multithreaded version written in pure 6502 assembly language. I found a printout of the source code when I was moving, weird seeing your own code from 15 years ago.

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                                                                        • Sarah_Jayne
                                                                          Now with more Jayne
                                                                          • Dec 2002
                                                                          • 40077

                                                                          #37
                                                                          Originally posted by freeadultcontent
                                                                          Hahahaha, yeah we used to put on TW contests for cash. Want to talk about heated.

                                                                          At any given time we had at least 7 games going. The craziest were the no rules ones, and the ones with all the mods added.

                                                                          oh man..the biggest game was on this BBS a kid I knew ran and geeze I can still hear people screaming at him when we found out that his dad (who played and took it TOO seriously for an adult) was sitting and watching us making our moves. Oh man...wonder if he can have kids.

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                                                                          • Sarah_Jayne
                                                                            Now with more Jayne
                                                                            • Dec 2002
                                                                            • 40077

                                                                            #38
                                                                            oh and I should have known I was bi when I played legand of a red dragon just so I could score with the barmaid.

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                                                                            • tootie
                                                                              Confirmed User
                                                                              • Jun 2003
                                                                              • 6041

                                                                              #39
                                                                              I really loved those door games. L.O.R.D., Tradewars, B.R.E., Falcon's Eye, Junkyard... there were so many!

                                                                              Sarah, I hear you. I loved that part of L.O.R.D.


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                                                                              • synergysex
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                                                                                • Jan 2004
                                                                                • 461

                                                                                #40
                                                                                Heh. They used to call it "IT", for information technology. I was just informed by my boss today that that term is antiquated. No, we are NOT part of IT.

                                                                                Our department is now called "Enterprise Services Group".
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                                                                                • monica
                                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                                  • Feb 2004
                                                                                  • 220

                                                                                  #41
                                                                                  Ohhh man, I remember my 2400 baud modem and my 386 with DOS.... and running a BBS. I had an extra phone number that ran on the same line with a unique ring so I would know when someone was calling the board instead of calling me. The phone used to ring all night!

                                                                                  And we all used to dial into this one bbs that had forty lines... had to purchase credits... man that was crazy!
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                                                                                  • fktup
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                                                                                    • Nov 2003
                                                                                    • 238

                                                                                    #42
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                                                                                    • Big Ray
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                                                                                      • Dec 2003
                                                                                      • 464

                                                                                      #43
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                                                                                      • AWC
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                                                                                        • Aug 2001
                                                                                        • 1223

                                                                                        #44
                                                                                        C64 at a smoking 300 baud...

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                                                                                        • Centurion
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                                                                                          • Dec 2002
                                                                                          • 6033

                                                                                          #45
                                                                                          Am I the only person to have an Atari 800 (not 800xl) and ONE single sided single density floppy drive on which to run a one line bbs using my 25 inch color tv as the monitor?

                                                                                          There was enough room on the floppy for oh..about 25 messages and then they all scrolled off.

                                                                                          And that was at 300 baud. Then came 1200 baud, then 2400, and THEN 9600!! Hayes modems! Fnet! And the best game ever..M.U.L.E.

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                                                                                          • NaughtyJenn
                                                                                            Confirmed User
                                                                                            • Apr 2003
                                                                                            • 7355

                                                                                            #46
                                                                                            i remember one of the first bbs's i was on was robobbs (not sure if anyone remembers that) but it was a graphical bbs that wasnt ansi... the sysop and co-sysop lived couple doors down thats when games werent allowed to be over 8 disks big lol

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                                                                                            • KRL
                                                                                              Entrepreneur
                                                                                              • Oct 2002
                                                                                              • 31429

                                                                                              #47
                                                                                              300 to 1200 to 2400.

                                                                                              It's almost hard to imagine getting excited having a 1200 modem but at the time that was considered a real speed demon.

                                                                                              I remember thinking there ought to be a way where you just dial one number and you could get to all the bbs's all on the same network.

                                                                                              Guess I was having visions of what was to come.
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                                                                                              • gornyhuy
                                                                                                Chafed.
                                                                                                • May 2002
                                                                                                • 18041

                                                                                                #48
                                                                                                Ahhhh those were the days.
                                                                                                I was the commodore 64 guru and my best friend was the atari 800 guy and he also had a K-Pro... that was the hardcore business machine .

                                                                                                Anybody here ever do any "phreaking" back in the day? We had these autodialers that would call up the long distance services and just brute force calling card codes all night... in the morning we'd have like 15 fresh codes for reaching all the good long distance and international BBSs.

                                                                                                Note to Feds: i was like 13 years old at the time so the statute of limitations has long since expired.

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                                                                                                • gornyhuy
                                                                                                  Chafed.
                                                                                                  • May 2002
                                                                                                  • 18041

                                                                                                  #49
                                                                                                  Originally posted by KRL
                                                                                                  300 to 1200 to 2400.

                                                                                                  It's almost hard to imagine getting excited having a 1200 modem but at the time that was considered a real speed demon.
                                                                                                  .
                                                                                                  I remember the day I figured out that you could crank a 300 baud modem up to 450 !!!! Oh man 50% boost....

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                                                                                                  • NaughtyJenn
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                                                                                                    • Apr 2003
                                                                                                    • 7355

                                                                                                    #50
                                                                                                    Originally posted by gornyhuy
                                                                                                    Ahhhh those were the days.
                                                                                                    I was the commodore 64 guru and my best friend was the atari 800 guy and he also had a K-Pro... that was the hardcore business machine .

                                                                                                    Anybody here ever do any "phreaking" back in the day? We had these autodialers that would call up the long distance services and just brute force calling card codes all night... in the morning we'd have like 15 fresh codes for reaching all the good long distance and international BBSs.

                                                                                                    Note to Feds: i was like 13 years old at the time so the statute of limitations has long since expired.
                                                                                                    pbx's and stuff i remember those days

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