Subj : Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : nelgin
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Mar 26 2024 06:21:00

-=> nelgin wrote to All <=-

 ne> My history goes back to about 1981 when I was 10 or so and my school
 ne> got its first computer. A Video Genie, which is a TRS80 clone, sort of
 ne> and I was fascinated by it. I got a ZX81 for Christmas and then
 ne> upgraded to a VIC20.

 It's a little fuzzy for me, but in 1983 I got a C64. I recall getting
 an Anchor 300 baud modem, but think it was to get onto QuantumLink
 (later AOL). It wasn't until I went to college in the fall that I
 started using my modem to connect to university systems and hearing
 about BBSes. That was about the time we had 2 big computer tabloids
 distributed where I lived - MicroTimes and Computer Currents, and I saw
 the BBS listings in the back.

 In 1986 I got sick of trying to read 80 columns on a 12" black and
 white TV, and got an XT clone and a 1200 baud modem. That's when BBSing
 really took off for me.

 Around 1987, I met Dr. Strangelove, who ran Just Say Yes, and over a
 couple of years got to me his friend and co-sysop. I did most of the
 administrative work on a 2-node Searchlight BBS and got the urge to
 start my own BBS.



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