I lived in a pretty small town, so BBS only had 1 line ;P

the big one, had 3!!

But we only went to the free bbses ;p

played LORD, SRE, BRE and a few others....

Playing your turn at 11:50 and then again at 12:01 to fuck someone up :)



ah Terminat... where have you gone....

Anyone remember Phrack? How about CDC? 2600? 2600 is actually still alive and kicking, I believe.

Blue box? Red box? The conceptualized-but-never-built Blotto Box?

SpaceAce

Is that you son??

It was so many years ago that I had forgotten the correct spelling.

DrGuile,

Not only did 99% of the BBS's in Port Charlotte have only one line, there were a lot that operated only at set hours (here in Cleveland, too)! Look for an old Wine Cellar BBS List and see how many of them say things like "10PM-6AM" or "Weekends only". There was even one where you had to make your modem dial some extra digits after his phone picked up because he ran his phone, fax and BBS all off of one line and his system routed the call to the proper place depending on which code you dialed after it picked up.

The big BBS here in Cleveland was FlipFlop. The dude ran it totally out of his own pocket and it had NINE nodes! One day he just shut everything down, though :(

SpaceAce

Hehe, I couldn't resist a little dig :) Spelling aside, it was big fun in those days.

SpaceAce

Those were the days.. Oh yeah. I remember buying my first modem. An external GVC 2400 bauds. Back then I was BBS'ing with an Amiga 500 and the cool JrComm software! LOL!

The fist time a Sysop started a chat with me when I was reading messages at 2-3 am, I almost fell of my chair.. Especially when you never chatted before.

I miss those sleepless nights playing Trade Wars 2002 and Global wars..

On that note, the Floating Pancreas is operating again. If you care to see some old-school chat, pre-browser, telnet to 65.82.191.26.
mC

I ran a 0-1 day warez board back in the day. I was also a member of EPIC for cracking games for Commodore systems. Not sure what the statue of limitations is now so I wont post my handle...:Graucho


Playing Tradewars, hacking PC Pursuit and other services, ah man.... Those were good times! :thumbsup


The Dawg

I once wrote a program called SL-Quote that displayed a random quote every time a user logged in. It was made especially for Searchlight BBS software. I got a few local BBS's to run it. What they didn't know was that I had programmed a backdoor into it that executed command.com when I wanted it to. Due to the nature of Searchlight and it's way of handling DOS calls and door games, I was able to remotely run programs like the LORD character editor. I would give myself tons of gold and go wreak revenge on people who had wronged me. Sigh, that was so much fine.


SpaceAce

fucking communist criminal!

FUDWM, just walk on.

No soup for you. Next!

Quote:

I still remember laying in bed, and never being able to get much sleep cause every time I heard that click of the modem I had to jump out of bed to see who was logging on... damn those were the days...

The same here :)