BBS Days - Who's been around since then ?

[Custommx3]

LOL I had a Radioshack Trash 80(Trs80 CC2) as well. I didnt have any drives, just the cable that connected to a tape players mic and headphone jack to record onto cassette tape. Every program I had I had to type it. 1000 lines of code for pong..

[judoGTI]

I remember loving to use BBS systems way back in the day.
Playing games, downloading 2 meg files over a day or so

Anyone remember Trade Wars, LORD ?

haha I totally forgot about Trade Wars...

Good old ANSI art too. BBS's were pretty fun over a 2400, I remember getting a 14.4 and thinking it was lighting fast. lol.

[judoGTI]

I remember hacking AOL back when it first came out.. Good old 'ORANGE-TUBBER' lol...

I think I used ProComm+ too, but its been sooo long....

BBS'ing is what started the whole 'Internet is for porn' revolution!

[dingofarmer]

Wow,

First PC was an IBM 286 PS/2 12mhz, 3.5 floppy drive sweet, 1200baud modem, 20 meg HD, huge, and one meg of Ram. Came with IBM-Dos 4something. Had to use disk compress util just to install win 3.1. I had that thing till 96, then upgraded to a PII400 with a cdrom. My folks still have that machine at home in florida. Used to play microprose f15 and hemdal on it.
there was one BBS in South Dakota that wasn't long distance, messed around with that alittle. Dos version of AOL sucked. Would any of you belived that you'd have a pc in your car that would have GPS, touchscreen, and play music, back then? Pc's have come a long dam way.

I did have a commodor and a tandy, but Ireally didn't learn much with them, still kinda young. Does anyone remember that magazine that was made for the commodor, and it had pages of code you could enter by hand, and have games and stuff?

[dingofarmer]

haha I totally forgot about Trade Wars...

Good old ANSI art too. BBS's were pretty fun over a 2400, I remember getting a 14.4 and thinking it was lighting fast. lol.

Remember when they shootgun'd two 14.4's. Had a buddy that had two lines and all. Lightening fast

[LaserLine]

I'm pretty sure I have a copy of LORDII laying around some where. That was pretty cool, but it came too late in the bbs days.

[blurp]

Does anyone remember that magazine that was made for the commodor, and it had pages of code you could enter by hand, and have games and stuff?

Was that BYTE magazine? I used to get it, too. I had forgotten all about it.

[cbergeron]

Anyone remember "Leech Zmodem" ? It would send a NACK signal after it received the last byte of your download - the result was that you weren't charged for your downloads. Of course, this dates back to the days of Upload/Download ratios and ANSI Graphics.

WWiV - rocked. I discovered hack in Murder Motel that allowed me to put an infinite amount of time in the time bank. It went like this:

When I only had like 12 minutes left on the board, I would go into Murder Motel (one of the games) and go into the Time Bank. I would go to make a time deposit (they had a 10 minute minimum), and on the "confirmation screen" I would wait for 3 minutes until my time expired on the board. The numbers then went NEGATIVE. The BBS code (WWiV 4, I think) was looking at Absolute values, so as my time went negative, I was actually GAINING time on the board. I'd hang out for a few hours, then deposit my earnings (like 180 minutes or whatever) and then make a legitimate deposit in the Time Bank.

I think that was my first ever hack. I've been hooked ever since - albeit now with cars and computers.

God, those were the days... heh.

[PatO]

Check this place out: http://www.bbsmates.com/
They don't have my old board listed, but they do have a number of Door Games available for play.

[alti]

Check this place out: http://www.bbsmates.com/
They don't have my old board listed, but they do have a number of Door Games available for play.

awsome link! found some of the old ones i used to call..