BBS Days - Who's been around since then ?

**ncamara** · 12-19-2004, 08:52 AM

I frequented a lot of Wildcat BBSs. Remember when you could download an entire game into a 360k 5 1/4 floppy?

**kandyman676** · 12-19-2004, 10:56 AM

I was a procomm plus user...first with a 2400 baud modem, then a 14.4 baud. I started a bit late in the local BBS scene...about a year or two before the internet started to kill the local BBSes.

I was also a local co-sys admin on several local BBSes in Baltimore County and Harford County. there is some site out there that you can find the old bbs's and register yourself to them to find old buddies. ARG...forget its name though.

**Question** · 12-19-2004, 02:00 PM

Hell yeah, I used Procomm Plus too. I was also cosysop of a board called Cyberpunk City when I first got into the computer scene.

**blurp** · 12-19-2004, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by ncamara

Remember when you could download an entire game into a 360k 5 1/4 floppy?

Are you kidding? ONE game? I had several games on one floppy. I was so stoked when I got a PC with *** 2 FLOPPY DRIVES ***. That way I could leave my DOS3.2 disk in the boot drive and still play games on the B: drive.

I'll have to look, I may still have some of them.

**mp3hombre** · 12-20-2004, 08:46 PM

You guys remember Compuserve? I used to spend hours on the microchip BBS learning how to PIC.

**chewiee** · 12-20-2004, 09:43 PM

Thought I was the nuts cause I had the JR Cook Book and a few downloaded documents about UFOs, MAJESTIC12 and a pocket modem that ran on a 9v battery.

We'd use the college telephone line on my laptop and browse CS using hacked accounts. Some mate of mine managed to get a list of usernames and passwords from somewhere... I thought the police were watching everything we did!

In the UK back then there were no local-rate calls and my mum hit the roof when I ran up an £80 bill on late night dial-ins to UK BBSs. She can breath again now...

I was thinking about my first email address the other day... and I've forgotten it <gasp>.

I do however remember coming across OLGA for the first time and thinking "WOW I'm gonna learn _all_ these songs!"

As for .MODs I was using them on an Atari ST. Anyone remember the swedish tracker for the ST? what was it called?

Chewiee

**roleary** · 12-20-2004, 11:33 PM

I can distinctly remember getting a 70MB hard drive when I was about 12. "WOW!! This is huge, we'll NEVER fill this thing!!"

**kandyman676** · 12-20-2004, 11:56 PM

Originally Posted by roleary

I can distinctly remember getting a 70MB hard drive when I was about 12. "WOW!! This is huge, we'll NEVER fill this thing!!"

heheh, i remember when 1MB harddrive was huge on a 8086, my first computer when I was 7/8 back in 1988 :-) of course, it also used double density 5 1/4" inch disk...which could hold a whopping 386k!

**DarquePervert** · 12-21-2004, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by kandyman676

heheh, i remember when 1MB harddrive was huge on a 8086, my first computer when I was 7/8 back in 1988 :-) of course, it also used double density 5 1/4" inch disk...which could hold a whopping 386k!

The floppy drives for my TRS-80 CoCo were like 152K. I was astonished at hw much could fit on one of those....

It beat loading programs from casette! That sucked major balls.

**Data Android** · 12-21-2004, 08:20 AM

anyone remember prodigy, they were the AOL of the time and refused to switch to the real internet, thinking they could comped with it, that's why I left them.
my first e-mail was one you could get for free from seflin net (did I spell that right?) through the local library, it was some 12 digit number.