On 03 Oct 2024, MRO exclaimed the following...

Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
By: Mike to Mro on Fri Oct 04 2024 03:41 am
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doorgames. hell, we don't even have users anymore.

LOL. Ya got that right.

Mick Manning
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centralontarioremote.net:23

... Just another prisoner of gravity!

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On 06 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

I like running my BBS(es) at home. Been doing it since 1984. Of course they are very different now than they were then. Then, I only ran 1
Atari 8-bit BBS on several floppy drives (and eventually a 5 mb hard
disk (wow)).

Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64 with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-)
The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today, you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>

Mick Manning
@ Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net:23

... Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career

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Mickey wrote to Bf2k+ <=-

Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64
with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-) The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today,
you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>

I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the
screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller
saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I
think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.

My, how things have changed.



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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Mon Oct 07 2024 07:24 pm

Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64 with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-)
The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today, you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>

i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.
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On 08 Oct 2024, poindexter FORTRAN exclaimed the following...

I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller
saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I
think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.

So the first message got Nihilated? :-) Go Figure.

Mick Manning
@ Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net:23

... The dog ate my .REP packet

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On 08 Oct 2024, MRO exclaimed the following...

i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.
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The last few years that I ran a BBS was on an Amiga 2500 that had a 20 meg HD inside. Fairly distant locals became real locals. It was a big deal. I was invited out to Commodore meetings to discuss BBS's with everyone.

Mick Manning
@ Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net:23

... Condense soup, not books!

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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: MRO to Mickey on Tue Oct 08 2024 02:00 pm

i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.

Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

When I switched over to a PC (FidoNet), the caller ratio switched to 75% locals...

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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: MRO to Mickey on Tue Oct 08 2024 02:00 pm

That's the truth! I ran BBSs from 93-97. In 1996 I offered dial-up internet service.
If we called out to a BBS that was long distance we had to cut it real short, and it was always a nice surprise to receive a LD user.

-StingRay
A-Net Online
a-net-online.lol

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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: Mickey to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Oct 08 2024 07:18 pm

On 08 Oct 2024, poindexter FORTRAN exclaimed the following...

I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.

So the first message got Nihilated? :-) Go Figure.

Mick Manning

hahaaaa
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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: Mickey to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2024 07:24 pm

i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that. ---

The last few years that I ran a BBS was on an Amiga 2500 that had a 20 meg HD inside. Fairly distant locals became real locals. It was a big deal. I was invited out to Commodore meetings to discuss BBS's with everyone.

yeah i met some great people and we were friends for a long time, but they moved away and we lost touch.

i tried to reconnect with a few but they got weird.
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On 08 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I
had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

Mick Manning
@ Mick's Place
centralontarioremote.net:23

... Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Wed Oct 09 2024 19:11:00

Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

Gotta love those 8 bit square boobies that took 12 hours to download.
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kk4qbn wrote to Mickey <=-

Gotta love those 8 bit square boobies that took 12 hours to download.

I worked at the company that developed Tomb Raider. It was odd working
for a company where you could have scantilly-clad women on your PC
background, as long as it was Lara Croft. PS1 era Lara was pretty
polygon sparse, if you know what I'm saying.

I was so pissed that they couldn't get it together enough to tie the
game into the movie and get a release out to coincide with the movie
release.



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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: poindexter FORTRAN to kk4qbn on Thu Oct 10 2024 07:16 am

I worked at the company that developed Tomb Raider. It was odd working for a company where you could have scantilly-clad women on your PC background, as long as it was Lara Croft. PS1 era Lara was pretty polygon sparse, if you know what I'm saying.

I was so pissed that they couldn't get it together enough to tie the game into the movie and get a release out to coincide with the movie release.

I never played those games, but one thing I'm sometimes reminded of is that when I visited Germany and Switzerland in 1998, there was a German song on the radio at the time called Männer sind Schweine ("Men are pigs" in English; by Die Ärtze), and the music video featured Lara Croft.

Nightfox

Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Wed Oct 09 2024 07:11 pm

On 08 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

No comment ;)

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Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
By: kk4qbn to Mickey on Wed Oct 09 2024 10:01 pm

Gotta love those 8 bit square boobie
that took 12 hours to download.

My friend and I looking at a pic
downloaded on my XT w/ CGA back in the
day:

Him: "Is that a dick or a tit?"
Me: "That's his mouth..."

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