OxGate BBS (1986 - Grafton, VA)
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BrightonPark · 2019-06-19 07:13

Look at those scanlines.

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ethertoxic · 2019-06-19 13:57

Ah! I have been trying to get information about Oxgate lately. I was a
member off and on for years and have always missed it.

I wonder if the sysops kept their data disks by any chance... would be
fun to resurrect it as a TCP/IP BBS.

I want to get a nice CP/M system online, and even getting brand new
hardware is pretty easy these days for CP/M systems.

Thanks for the memory!

I used to use:

\- OxGate

\- The Enchanted Forest

\- Tidewater TBBS

\- Peninsula CoCo

There were a few others but I've forgotten them over time.

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blakespot · 2019-06-19 23:01

Wow, who are you? I was on all of those systems, but was on the
Peninsula and stayed away from the Southside boards usually. I can
still remember some of the #s. PenCoCo was 804-868-0922, for instance.
Some others I was on in the area:

The Blues Exchange

The Board (Amiga)

Apple Crate

Whogins DYM-32

I was on under my name, Blake Patterson. I lived in Williamsburg when
I started BBSing in ‘86, but we moved months later to Newport News
(Oyster Point).

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ethertoxic · 2019-06-20 00:27

Ya know, I forgot my name doesn't show up here.

It's Shannon BTW, sorry about that.

I remember those other boards too. I also remember using a couple of B
BBS on the Army's Autovon system. When I hit college though, I found
myself more and more on minicomputers and other timesharing systems
and got away from BBS while the scene was still very active.

I ran UUCP and was !odu!chrysanthemum!waggen!escape for years, until
about 2004 when my ISP finally dropped UUCP.

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sagjig · 2019-07-21 23:10

Anyone know what FIGlet font (if any) was used for that logo? I'd love
to slap something like that on my Linux MOTD or something.