Any old timer SysOp's here?
 

Any old timer SysOp's here?

Back in the early 90's, I ran a bbs (part shareware, part porn (I was a teenager so part l33t warez to)... At it's peak, my board had 4 nodes (running remote access, I always hated PCBoard and wildcrap).

Anyone else? Let talk history ;)

Whatever happened to 'the windy city' ?? I used to have traders dialing in all the time uploading pics with their watermark...

btw... for the north of the UK, 4 nodes is quite a lot.. even the london boards, I only know of 2 that that had more than 8.. and one of them is now a well respected ISP.

Yea I used to run a Mac BBS (Hermes) Myron's Manor I'm told it was one of the longest running Hermes boards around.

Yup, had a BBS for quite a while.
I miss LORD and BRE and Trade Wars.

Of course.. In '92-'94 I had a board called LSD IV (Liquid Speed Dome IV) - warez.. porn.. I was sooo l33t

Hermes.. I never heard of... I did exchange files with a mac bb owner for a while.. mac files were tiny compared to dos stuff..

Yeah - I remember LORD and BRE... I could never get into the RPG thing, but my members loved it.

Legend Of The Red Dragon... Lol.. no reason why that could not be ported into perl or php, and use feeds to syndicate... worth thinking about I guess..

I ran a BBS for 2 days. :D hehe

It was fun setting it up but I decided I wanted to play games more.

http://www.gameport.com/bbs/lord.html :thumbsup

I was a cosysop on a couple of boards. I have source code for a some BBS software somewhere on my XT clone. I also wrote a BBS game similar to Operation Overkill, but it worked much faster and better.

Cheers -- I am taking a look now :) !!!

Tom were you 'involved' back in the day??

I would also like to know if anyone knows the full story about Rusty'n'Eddies??... I got the gist of what happened with amateur action via 2600 quarterly at the time, but no real discussion..

Can we discuss the busts and the reasons why??

I know AA were dealing in underage stuff (even if it was just nudes, they were still kids, so I have no sympathy), so if the got busted, the deserved it.. but whenever I dialed into R+E (at massive expensive from the uk at that time), I got warez and relatively low quality porn... The first I knew of the bust was through a PPA (phederal phuking authority) or similar release.

Any info would be nice :) -- Ancient history, but would be nice to know.

What language did you code at the time tom?? I learnt the basics of C to improve my BBS, and now I am an adult, it pays 90% of my weekly income.

What did you run?? PCB?? RA? RBB?? Info please... were you part of fidonet?? my fido was: f205.n256.z2 (2.256.205) with about 80 points... all geeky teens.

I ran a PowerBBS.

I miss the BBS world.

Trade Wars 2002.. hehe

Dont forget about McHenry's I think that was the first porn I ever saw online.

used to bbs to a few boards park central was 16 lines, xfactor, ghostship.
was in prophecy, and dod.

Mostly turbo pascal with some assembly modules for speed. I started to learn c++ also, but instead of being on the computer 24/7, I had to get a "real" job to help pay some bills.

people actually got beaten up in the halls ways in my school over trade wars. Of course nobody but the nerds knew that was the reason.

I was a beta tester for Mustang Software between 1993 and 1997. Ran a Wildcat BBS with 16 nodes and dominated L.O.R.D. on every BBS that I could telnet into. I still have the modem pool laying around somewhere if anybody needs one for a museum or something. :glugglug

McHenery's has their shit everywhere. I think that was the first online porn for me too.

I ran a multi-line board. Shareware, online games, porn..

Made the top 100 in Boardwatch magazine in 1993.

Psycho Ward BBS run on Cnet Amiga software.. WHOOO.. :)

I ran a small BBS for a while on an old 286. I remember upgrading to a 486 33mhz with 16 MB of ram for running the bbs and all the computer store geeks thought I was rich. Nobody had that much ram back in the day lol.

I used to run a 12 node pcboard bbs, used to mirror everything from exec bbs in NY, plus had the warez and the porn, fun times, still have the usrobotics modems and the 2 2500meg external drives, they cost me so much fucking money I just cant seem to throw them away

look at all the nerds :1orglaugh

and your point would be?

i used to run a 3 node PCB setup in the 90's - The Junction - WHQ and GHQ of quite some groups, mainly demo/ansi/cracking scene related stuff..

damn, those were *teh* timezZ!

I used to run a BBS. Had it going for 3 years, or so under a few names. I met a guy from florida that was involved with a really big ansi art crew who decked his board out for him, then when he moved near me we transfered all the images to a modded renegade BBS. Was called Higher Grounds. Was art,warez and porn of course :thumbsup

Was playing the new PHP version for a while, but since GamePort bought the rights to Legend of the Red Dragon, it had to be called Legend of The Green Dragon kinda fun if you can get enough people playing :thumbsup

good ol times! :1orglaugh

access LA
handle: bigbob

ran renegade then iniquity, has the super elite ansi that took five minutes to load up too.

it was a joke :disgust

Ah, the good old days ;)

We started in the very early 90's.. First with Wildcat, tons of adult pics, some door games, etc.

In 93 or 94 we switched to major bbs (galacticomm) and got up to 60 lines with cd changers of adult / shareware, chat, games,etc.

It was fun as heck and we would have bbs parties every couple months - ah the memories. A few people that met in our chat got married..

Sometimes miss the old bbs days, more local you know...