Subj : Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : Nightfox
From : fusion
Date : Wed Mar 27 2024 16:49:18

on 27 Mar 2024, Nightfox said...
 
 Ni> In 1992, he gave me my own computer, a home-built PC with a 286
 Ni> processor, along with a 2400 baud modem.  He told me about bulletin
 Ni> boards and gave me a list of BBSes, along with a communications program
 Ni> (Procomm Plus).  That's when I started using BBSes..  It was during the

when i was probably in.. 5th grade i think? the teacher for the computer class gave me a 300 baud modem .. that's how i got my start. he wanted me to learn about the internet though, but instead i went and called a bunch of bbses.. worked out in the end anyways but :)

 Ni> A couple years later, my parents agreed to get a second phone line for my
 Ni> computer that I could use any time and not worry about tying up the main
 Ni> phone line or having my modem answer the phone.  I pretty much
 Ni> immediately set up my own BBS, which I enjoyed running, and it also made
 Ni> good use of that phone line.

lucky.. by the time i had my own second line i was using it for dedicated dialup internet. bit weird having your own phone number at the ISP, but it was cool. i remember injoy dialer for OS/2 had a bunch of extra stuff in it for "professional" use including some stuff to rather aggressively keep it's connection going. i remember i had a backup ISP too .. geez. a bit ocd i guess :)

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