Subj : How did you find out about bulletin boards?
To   : Bob Worm
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 01 2024 14:45:31

  Re: How did you find out about bulletin boards?
  By: Bob Worm to Nightfox on Mon Apr 01 2024 09:53 pm

 >> In 1992, he gave me my own computer, a home-built PC with a 286 processor,
 >> along with a 2400 baud modem.  He told me about bulletin boards and gave me
 >> a list of BBSes, along with a communications program (Procomm Plus).

 BW> Heha - wow... I had forgotten about Procomm Plus. This is just like my
 BW> story, except for the bit where you got to play with it and dial into
 BW> BBSes! In my case my dad brought home a 286 PC and 2400 baud modem from
 BW> work, along with a list of BBSes a work colleague had given him. I got to
 BW> watch while he called into a couple and downloaded some dopey EGA paint
 BW> program but the phone calls cost so much (and I'd have been fairly young
 BW> at the time) that he never entrusted me with it :)

:)  Fun times.
I only called local BBSes, so it didn't add anything to the phone bill.  Luckily, there were quite a lot of local BBSes in my area back then.

Nightfox
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