Were any of your sysops on a BBS?
 

Some of the best times of my youth came from discovering the world of the BBS back in the day. In fact, a few of my dearest friends are still people I met on them when I was a teenager.

I just started watching a multi-part documentary on the old BBS scene and it brought back a flood of memories. The site for the documentary is really bad looking but it is here.

i coded some vga loaders for some groups

nah, during that time I was too busy knocking out trim and smoking dope with my buddies to give a rats ass. Didn't even know the internet even existed until like 1998. lol

"Internet? What the fuck is the internet?"

In retrospect I really wish I was way more nerdy then. I really missed the boat on that one. lol

i ran a small one in my hometown using uh spitfire. I remember renegade, and there were a few others.

My first time on the internet was using a stolen SLIP account and telnetting to a BBS in LV, writing a fake online check to download some pictures off of CD288.

Ran my own BBS for many years in the 80s. Saw the documentary, it was good. Another one if you haven't seen it is Get Lamp

Yup, we bought Get Lamp too. We both grew up with too much Zork not to get it.

yep, 3 nodes ringdown, running a heavily modded PCBoard. Man, those were the times!

Hi Sarah,

Wow its funny that you say that - I was the exact same!

When I was 16 I wrote my first "big" program, a BBS for the TRS-80 Model 4. I called it "compu-sexe" at first but then changed it to "Datamate", and bought ads in the local newspaper, calling it "sexually explicit". It got so busy so fast that I soon bought a second TRS-80 (Model 3) just so I could have it support 2 users at the same time (with 2 phone numbers and 2 "auto-answer" modems!

It was lots of fun. I learned alot and as goofy as it sounds, it helped me break out of my ackward shell at the time (nerdy guy, bad at sports, few friends, kept to myself, etc). Good times..!

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I started one when I was about 16 orso which was really at the end of the BBS era.
My mom didn't like it because the phoneline was permanently busy lol

I ran RA.

Helped a friend run his 2 node board, he ran 3 nodes at night off his parents line as well, lol.

Renegade mainly, but we used pc board as well. I played a lot of tradewars back then as well.

i don't miss 2400 baud modems in the least! :)

I made myself an admin on a school ran BBS when I was like 15. They didn't like that, I got suspended for 5 days. Should have played it cool, instead I started answering questions in the "Ask the police" board. :(

I was co-sysop on a local kids BBS. I wrote a game for it that was a clone of Operation Overkill. Bought my first, full-height 10MB hard drive from another sysop. He started with WWIV but switched to Telegard which was a clone. I have the source code for it somewhere on my XT class computer.

Yup, that is it. If anybody was around in those days it will be a trip. I miss those days in a lot of ways but progress marches on.

I remember getting told by a science teacher that I made up the word 'download'. He was a prick anyway and made sure he told me that in front of the whole class. I hope every once in a while when he downloads something it rings a bell in his head.

Cott Lang still sux.

i always wanted to start my own BBS but my mom wouldnt pay for another phone line and was getting mad at me as it was for using up the phone line that we had all the time. But i had about 4 BBS's that i HAD to get on everyday to play trade wars and LORD

I can not tell you how important Trade Wars was to my group of geek friends in my junior year of high school.

Had 9 node AmiExpress The Pleasure dome BBS, for a short time i was distribution for Razor 1911.
Running on an Amiga 2000 with special multi serial card

Was great those days, i have fond memories and was the time when computing had such magic.
I started my first BBS on a C64 and had to swap diskettes for people that requested files tagged on a list :-)

Good days!

no but i had fun tormenting many sysops

Damn I just used up all my turns for the day in TradeWars2002

Did the sysop request a chat with you often? That used to freak me out.

I ran a WWIV board back in the early 90s.

I wiped one out :)

Sysop became one of my best friends afterwards :)

I remember trying a BBS on a Vic 20 but it wasn't too good.
then went to the C-64. Started on 300 baud modem and moved up speeds as tech changed. Ran the BBS for the local Commodore club.

I was sysop of a 2 line BBS for about 4 years. It was based on waffle, a unix emulator for pc's, and carried usenet and all the old school early text internet and real email, a really unique thing in my area.

good times.

then that guy released the first internet worm, and html and browsers were invented, and I foolishly did not jump to the new platforms - well, I couldn't afford it at the time.

No not at all - that is just a screenshot I found of WWIV.

My computers were TRS-80's with 16k of Ram or something like that, and a 360k "Double Sided Double Density" floppy drive. I think the processor was a Z-80 2MHz or something like that...

The computer wouldn't multi task so I needed 2 computers with 1 x 1200 baud modem each (Hayes compatbile I think). My friend Rick wrote a simple way for these 2 computers to "network" by way of the cassette ports in machine language. We hooked up the computers via the ports by connecting the SPKR OUT Cable to the AUX IN, and Vice-Versa but it didn't work at first. I determined the signal (audio) wasn't loud enough so I went to Radio shack and bout 2 little 5-amp amplifier kits and hooked it up. These amps made too much noise which generated errors so I had to add a little noise filter to fix it, then finally tweaking the volume controls to get the best sound possible to make the network connection happen. Talk about lots of fucking fun!!! I loved it. THAT was the good ol' days... Once this was happening, a person logged in to the first computer could actually, really, real-time chat with the person on the other computer! WOW!!

My parents though were still not impressed...then again they didn't understand what I was doing. Still fun tho.

I was in 1985 - 1990, I ran a BBS at night when the family was asleep using my Commodore 64 and the C-NET software.. good old days!! I upgraded
with 2 1571 drives and a 1200 baud. My buddy had a nice IBM with 9600.. that was smoking fast in those days..lol

Very briefly in '96. Legend of the Red Dragon made me do it.

Awesome thread...

I was Robin Hood and ran the Sherwood Forest BBS from late 1979 through 1984 on Atari 8 bit machines. I wrote all the software for it because none existed in 1979.

Started at 300 baud because that is all that existed... then the 1200 ATT modems came out!

yep thats how i got into all this craziness =))

I was The Duke! thus my aim screen name Moduke96

Miss those days of dialers and black boxes =))

I had a private BBS setup that I ran at night for friends and classmates in the early 90's.

Mainly used for playing TradeWars and LORD :1orglaugh

I weren't :)

Ran a 6 node pay bbs using pcboard, actually made a little money at it

ymodem-g!!

X00 or BNU?

If you answer wrong, you're a Renegade running tardmuffin. :upsidedow

Aw man, I used to chit chat on Shoreline back in the day.

The Bates Motel, 1984