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  • When and what got you into BBS'n?

    From Mortifis@VERT/ALLEYCAT to All on Wed Apr 1 15:51:03 2020
    ... for me, I was given a copy of Telix in 1988-89 from a radioshack that had a list of local dial-up bbses in Halifax NS Canada ... eventually in, '94 I started running the crappy built in Telix BBS front end built on SALT and soon discovered sbbs200g shareware on a BBS ... been hooked on SBBS and running it almost consistently ever since, and, ironically, still haven't figured out how to be a sysop :-P

    What's your story, either as a user or a sysop?

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    þ Synchronet þ AlleyCat! BBS Lake Echo, NS Canada
  • From Nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to Mortifis on Wed Apr 1 15:11:21 2020
    Mortifis wrote:
    ... for me, I was given a copy of Telix in 1988-89 from a radioshack that had a
    list of local dial-up bbses in Halifax NS Canada ... eventually in, '94 I started running the crappy built in Telix BBS front end built on SALT and soon
    discovered sbbs200g shareware on a BBS ... been hooked on SBBS and running it
    almost consistently ever since, and, ironically, still haven't figured out how
    to be a sysop :-P

    What's your story, either as a user or a sysop?

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    â–  Synchronet â–  AlleyCat! BBS Lake Echo, NS Canada

    I'm going to have to write this up since I repeat it often.

    In the mid 80's there was Prestel, a service ran by Post OFfice
    Communications, which become British Telecom (BT). This was viewdata,
    running 1200/75 baud (because originally it wasn't designed to send much
    data from the user end). It was like Teletext but more interactive. An Information Provider called Micronet 800 were giving away free modems for
    BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, and I think CBM 64 users.

    The BBC version came with a ROM that you insert into the system and would
    load with *MNET if I recall. From there it would connect to the viewdata
    system through the attached modem using 7E1. It was good, lots of
    information and that's where I found out about other dial up systems.

    It took some learning, I had to change to 8N1 and then there was lots of
    blank lined between the text menus, so had to turn off extra line feeds. Fidonet wasn't a big thing on the boards I called which were mostly run on
    BBC Micros, lots of people had them, and they were fairly cheap and could be expanded with dual floppy drives. There were PC ones too, of course. I think
    I looked at Fidonet once or twice but really didn't get into it.

    For a while I ran my own BBS, Modem Mania, but I left home and it wasn't sensible to keep an unattended computer running a BBS I couldn't maintain
    since I wouldn't have a computer to dial in with.

    Yeah so...that's my BBS journey.

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    ï¿­ Synchronet ï¿­ End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com
  • From Digital Man@VERT to Mortifis on Wed Apr 1 16:35:46 2020
    Re: When and what got you into BBS'n?
    By: Mortifis to All on Wed Apr 01 2020 03:51 pm

    ... for me, I was given a copy of Telix in 1988-89 from a radioshack that had a list of local dial-up bbses in Halifax NS Canada ... eventually in, '94 I started running the crappy built in Telix BBS front end built on SALT

    I ran that Telix host most script as a BBS too, for about day, before switching to WWIV v4.

    and soon discovered sbbs200g shareware on a BBS ... been hooked on SBBS and running it almost consistently ever since, and, ironically, still haven't figured out how to be a sysop :-P

    :-)

    digital man

    Synchronet "Real Fact" #1:
    Development began in 1990 of the (unnamed at the time) Synchronet BBS software. Norco, CA WX: 70.6øF, 53.0% humidity, 13 mph ENE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs ---
    þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net