From:
nelgin@EOTLBBS.remove-c1f-this
To: Mortifis
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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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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