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Heresy!

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We're disconnecting our surfboard for the weekend and playing trade wars 2000 via our 300 baud Hayes Compatible and Apple IIgs on a Wildcat! BBS.

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I always like the TAG BBS the best

reply to pnh102

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WWIV or nothing.

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reply to Jeffrey
I used procomm for home BBS, and I was a member of Angst BBS.
Angst was the first BBS to hook me up to the newly born internet

reply to Jeffrey
cool... hey if you're going to fire up your BBS, do you have anything to download... I'm just dying to go back to download files using Kermit.

But if you can't support Kermit I'll use ZMODEM, YMODEM, or even XMODEM.

reply to Jeffrey
Yep, Kermit, ZModem, YModem, and XModem.
Everything was text directories, when picture's came it was a BIG deal. I think I used Mosaic back then.

reply to flyingjoey
"If your toaster has a microchip in it, someone somewhere has probably ported Kermit to it".

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_%28protocol%29

reply to pnh102
What, you have a hard wired modem?!?!
Not a 75 baud telephone coupler.

I have an old US Robotics 1200 bps modem at "Ye Olde Computer Museum" in my cube at work. I also have a colorful bunch of punchcards (never used). An 8" hard drive from one of our old mini computers. A 5 1/4' good ol' Seagate ST-251 drive. A couple of assorted ISA, EISA, VESA Local Bus cards, an old Hayes 2400 bps modem, and a newer USR 28.8. I have floppy drives and diskettes of the 8", 5.25" and 3.5" variety. There is a copy of OS/2 Warp, DOS 5.0, DOS 3.1, and Windows 3.0 all in their own original shrinkwrap! There's even a slide rule and an abacus, both fully functional! Sometimes people come to stop and stare.

When I start to think about all the stuff I used to mess with, I come to the realization that I have probably forgotten more than some of our younger techs and programmers know!
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"Understanding is a three-edged sword."

reply to pnh102
For all you pr0n hounds out there, here is a bit of nostalgia...

I happened to meet someone during the normal course-of-business and then one day I saw this:

»www.totse.com/en/law/high_profil···ust.html

»www.loundy.com/CDLB/AABBS.html

»venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/rim···proposal

HAHA! Big tits at 300 baud. How long does it take to D/L a pair of 42DD's at 300 baud...??

Turns out that this person and his wife were the operators of the "Amateur Action BBS"...one of the first pr0n BBS's on the Internet. Well, it wasn't even the Internets at that time.

Ah, the nostalgia of the look backwards. We were SO very much simpler then...


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reply to pnh102
Doesn't anyone remember TriBBS?

Man Wildcat! really brings back the memories. I used to be SysOp of a 4-line board locally here back in the day.

Oh, and WWIV sucked. God I hated that software. PCBoard too.

reply to Jeffrey
Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...

Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.

Anyone remember RIP?

reply to John Galt
Rusty 'n Edy

reply to pabster
I remember Zmodem being one of the best things I ever used - at the time. So much better than Ymodem and tons better than Xmodem.

I'm really stretching deep down, back into the depths of my brain to remember all this shit I used to download porn with. Kids have it so easy these days with "the web".

Whoah, I remember trying to look at porn on a Hercules monitor, then finally I got EGA and it was like "whoah" then I saw VGA for the first time - 640x480x256 I think with 256K RAM on an 8-bit ISA card - downloading stuff in the middle of the night with my trust Practical Peripherals 2400 baud modem with scheduled downloads to max out my daily file/Kbyte limit. Then my 20 MB MFM hard drive would fill up and I'd delete a bunch of stuff then do it all over. Ahh, to be a teenager again. oh but when 16-bit color came out, holy shit!!

Don't know if Mom ever knew what those squeeling sounds were on the phone when she picked up.... ("mom, hang up the phone!!!!!")

reply to flyingjoey

The War Board Highland Park NJ
Sporting 4 USR Courier HST Dual Standard Modems
No Ratios!
Adult Section
0 Day Warez bitches!
Members Only Section
Trade Wars
FidoNet Relay

reply to pabster

said by pabster:

Damn what was that bi-directional protocol...

Ymodem and Xmodem sucked bad. Zmodem was OK.

Anyone remember RIP?