Subj : Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : nelgin
Date : Tue Mar 26 2024 12:00:34

  Re: Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Tue Mar 26 2024 06:21:00

 >  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.

My first PC was given to me. It was a (c) 1982 Commodore PC with a green screen and 256K of memory and I think a 10mb hard drive or something stupid like that. I could play text adventure games on it and that was about it.

 >  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.

My first BBS was home grown, I wrote it for the BBC Micro and pretty happy with it, but I ended up buying another BBS product and I wish I could remember what it was called and who it was from, it wasn't one of the mainstream ones at the time. But this one had more stuff than I could code up an was happy with it.

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