F.A.M.O.U.S. (Fresno Area Modem Operator/User System)
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"This BBS was my early teenage social life. I did start with some
public domain software that I spliced together but I don't
remember the references--it wasn't Fido or anything. All run on
Atari with a 300 baud modem. I wrote everything in Microsoft
Basic, and eventually lost control of the spaghetti code. I had
some experimental features to my BBS: it was all themed as if you
were in a medieval village and read like a simple Infocom
(remember those?) game. Sometimes if you were at a menu prompt,
something surprising would happen based on random timers like "a
beggar comes up to you and asks for a pence"--if you choose not to
give him one, some random % of the time the system would say that
he calls you a cheap scoundrel and pulls a knife and kills you for
your money--then when you tried to log back in during the next 24
hours the system would deny access saying "sorry, you're dead!".
Or if you gave him something it might reward you with higher level
access. Or maybe something else would happen~Wyou never knew!
Anyway, it got quite popular and the modem was basically busy 24
hours a day until I took it down (and then the line was still
constantly ringing for some several months. Some great memories.
Thanks for doing this!" - Jason Knapp

Phone   : 209-439-0119
Place   : Fresno, CA
Years   : 1981 - 1985
Sysop   : Jason Knapp
Software: Homegrown

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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