BBS Days - Who's been around since then ?

[TruckinMP3]

ha, my first computer (a 20mhz wang) came with a 2400 bps modem. Snip

Heheh. My first modem was 300 baud.... yikes, now I think broadband is slow.

[Question]

I remember having to use the time bank on a WWIV BBS to save up time to download Wolfenstein 3D.

Hahaha hell yeah, I remember that ****. There was an awesome WWiV bbs in Austin called Demented Dimensions. Ah, the days...

[rando]

Heheh. My first modem was 300 baud.... yikes, now I think broadband is slow.

300 baud, yah that's where it was it at. That was soooo much faster than falling back to the old skool 110 baud modems. Was your 300 baud modem the cradle type where you had to sit the phone receiver on it or did it direct connect? Ooooh those lucky people that could afford a 1200!

I'm not sure what monkeyboy means about 2MB downloads. No freak'n way did I ever grab anything that big -- nor were there any downloads around of that size. I mean, my Vic20 memory was only 3KB and the tape drive storage couldn't hold much more. Even the Amiga 1000 w/o a hard disk could only store 880KB on a floppy. A 20MB SCSI hard disk system would run you over $1000 so floppies were still the economical way to go. A 300KB download was freak'n huge! I remember paying $100 for my first box of 10 3.5" Double density floppies. Oh man was I cool!

[mv2123]

wow , and i thought downloading havint to wait like 10 minutes for a 180mb file was too long

[DarquePervert]

Hell yeah, I was running on 2400 for the majority of my BBS experience on a 386.

Heh. I was doing 2400 on an XT-class machine.
The good old days.
MFM hard drives... Those were fun...

[blurp]

MFM hard drives... Those were fun...

ST-506A's?

Edit: Shoulda said: What about ST506A's? Don't know what happened.

[Rob Withey]

Heh. I was doing 2400 on an XT-class machine.
The good old days.
MFM hard drives... Those were fun...

Same here (2400 on an XT - 8MHz Amstrad 2086). Had a 32Mb WD hard card (hard drive/ISA controller card combo) in the back. Thought it was bigger than I'd ever need.

Started out with a 300 baud modem though (I think - was a long time ago) with my Atari running ZModem or something. Was amazed at the speed when the 2400 came along.

Still haven't progressed past 56k even now.

[alti]

zmodem was the bomb. remember xmodem, kermit and I know there were others.

I missed out on most of the 286 24 bit days and before. My mom is a teacher and used to bring home a Apple IIe from the school on summer vacations. I used to pester her everyday in the spring, when is it comming? when will it be here?? it had no modem thou.

My first computer was the 386 SX 20 wang, 2 megs of ram, 40 MB HD, 2400 modem, 15" VGA monitor DOS 5 and windows 3.0, did not even have a sound card and forget video memory it would have been in the kB's
I think it cost my parents over 2000$

I upgraded the video card to a meg (I think), put a 8 bit sound card in, installed more ram, even installed one of thoose 386-486 upgrade kits! (claimed to make it a 486 sx20

I remember getting hooked on a Star Trek game (25th anniversary ed.) that game was so cool. And I sat around after school tring to code this game in GWBASIC called sonic racer. ha! that was great

[Custommx3]

mmm Procomm Plus!
I used to have my own wildcat BBS back in the day.

[Bugbyte]

First computer: Atari 800, 8k of memory and I spring $400 for a floppy disk drive with a whopping 90k of storage on a 5-1/4 floppy, which was actually floppy.

300kb modem and ZTerm for dialing into bbs'. You'd set up for redial on the popular boards because you'd get a lot of busy signals. There was something called FIDO net that would relay a message across the country by forwarding messages from one board to the next that were in local calling range of each other. Took a day or two to get the messages from one end of the country to the other!