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!

VAX/VMS baby!!

:helpme

PCBoard
Wildcat

yeah

C64 at a smoking 300 baud...

logged into Comp-u-sex... errrrrrr serve

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. :thumbsup

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

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.

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 .:1orglaugh

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.

I remember the day I figured out that you could crank a 300 baud modem up to 450 !!!! Oh man 50% boost.... :thumbsup

pbx's and stuff :) i remember those days :)

50 SYSOPS



LOL I remember this... 16color BBS'

lol...

fatefiles.. anyone remember that group? razor911...

Oh yeah! I remember the first FULL COLOR bbs I dialed up and the creative use of color ascii characters to make menus and boarders and such...

The only time you see that now is in the .nfo files for warez.

O yes.... The good ol days!

I ran an Atari 800 BBS maxed out with 8 Floppy Drives.
I wrote the Platinum BBS software...

Anyone remember Robin Hood and The Sherwood Forest BBS?
Featured in Time Magazine...

Now I am a pornographer!

I ran a few WWIV and Renegade boards way back in the day :thumbsup

Oh yes ! I ran the Stealth BBS :1orglaugh


Ran a few types of boards, renegade, tag, and some other one... always had to be installing the games


of course it had 3 cd's worth of porn (all single speed drives) lol

Fuck man ... me and my brother used to sit on the BBS sites and try to figure out how to hack into our school to change our grades... LOL .. fuck those were the days .. LOL

Watched WarGames one too many times, eh?


"HELLO ... DOCTOR.... FALKEN.... SHALL ..WE.. PLAY.. A .. GAME?"

Damn.. I go to dinner and come back
more posts and memories :thumbsup

I wish I did not trade my Commodore 64, I had
some cool ass games for it back in the day.

Anyone have the Commodore Plus 4 ?

That was one shitty computer with next to no
software available.

I knew no better .. LOL ...

"The only way to win the game is not to play"

And I remember when I found the Liquid Sky BBS and how great it was to have an all over 18 board to play on. LOL...all of this makes me feel waaaaaay old

Indeed. But you know what, at the end of the day, that was still cool stuff at the time.

Everything is relative.

Intel announced recently by 2007 the CPU's in PC's will be running at 20 Gigahertz, about 7 time's today's fastest ones.

Imagine in the year 3,000 our descendents will be laughing at us saying can you believe all these geeks thought they were speed demons surfing the Net at 1 Mbs. They'll probably be at 100 Gbs.

I had a BBS back in the early 90's, used proboard BBS software, lightning heart BBS, named it after the tattoo I have on my ass.

I always wanted to be a sysop. But my parents wouldn't let me :(

So I just installed LORD on my computer and played alone.

I STILL play M.U.L.E. That was my favorite game ever!

Your Commodore wasn't shit if you didn't have the Turbo Booster Cartridge you slipped into the back! :Graucho

Got a Vic20 and then they sold me on the 64 because they had the print out of TutenKaman (that Pharoah dude) in all gold and done digitally. They said that you could replicate that on your 64 although I never figured out how to. :(

How about Pimpwars? That was fun too. :)

I remember the first time someone told me about the internet.. it was like 1991 or so.. I was like.. yer full of shit.. there isn't 10,000 people on some server chatting! (IRC)

haha.. got my first dialup account in late 1993/ or early 1994 and I have been hooked ever since.

Applecat modem and "phreaking" :thumbsup

Anyone else do that?

I've got 5 or 6 adult BBS cds still, anyone want to dial-in?

Shit... I forgot about BRE... I love that game too!

Do these games still exist online somewhere?

OMG tootie, so do I. In fact, I may have to fire up the ol' C-64 emulator tonight! :1orglaugh

Yep. I used to run some WWIV boards back in 1986.

I was a sysop of a two line waffle BBS called Heart of Gold from 90 to 93, when the whole bbs scene pretty much collapsed. Of course, there were about 10 "Heart of Golds". Because of waffle I had a usenet feed and true internet email when a lot of bulletin boards were using more specialized bbs software.

I didn't name it, I inherited it from someone else.

Just fuckin' fine old times.

ha, the old days, I used to run a 10 node pc board software bbs and used to feed the newgroups to my bbs members via a shell account at netcom, was one of netcoms fiirst customers, was fun stuff back then

I never did any of the hard stuff, but I was once given an international 0014 freecall number (free if dialled from Australia) that presented you with a USA dialtone. No access codes at all, and no charge for the AU-USA leg on my bill. I used it a few times but then I figured it was too good to be true... I heard later it was some sort of sting by the Australian feds. :helpme