My favorite BBS's were Fat Freddy's, which was out on the west coast somewhere, Kill Devil Hills, which was out east in North Carolina I think....and a local BBS called The Underground run by a guy I sort of knew.
I loved playing Global Wars, which was basically just glorified Risk. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was your modem the standard 300 baud acoustic coupler? I had a friend who > could whistle the connect string into those. > > There were a lot of local boards, but my 2 national favorites were the > Well > from SF, and Pirates Cove (from somewhere up north, either maine, nh, or > canada. And later a SF-based Apple Macintosh board whose name I cannot > remember. > > Pirates Cove was mainly for hacks and cracks, but boy, was it fun. > > The need to alleviate long distance charges (which were _not_ an option) > forced us to learn a bit about electronics, and cobble together a blue > box, > which saved us until Timenet came along, and we shifted our sneakiness to > purely software-level round-a-bouts. > > Compuserve and Prodigy, and later AOL served me pretty well, too. > > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Okay the BBS talk got me going. > > > > I loved BBSing and to be honest, what is cf-community but a email based > > bbs > > without door games? =) > > > > I got my first 300 baud modem in 1985 from my Uncle, a VIC Modem that I > > hooked up to my Commodore 64. I lived in Saline, a small town just > south > > of > > Ann Arbor. The only local calls I could make were Saline and Ann Arbor. > > The only BBS in Saline was a CoCo3 specialist BBS that my friend Brian > > ran, > > and I didn't much care for the Ann Arbor BBSes. All the good ones > (being > > a > > C64 guy, "good ones" meant they ran CNET or Image) were in Ypsi, > Plymouth, > > Canton, etc. So I called them. I even called a BBS in South Bend > called > > the Michiana Online Messenger. > > > > Well, a month later, my mom got the phone bill, and my bill was like > $300. > > > > that's when I got my modem taken away. $300 was a lot of money for a 13 > > year old kid in 1985. It's still a lot of money for a kid that age but > it > > was even more then. > > > > About a year later, I got my modem back and learned to stay local. > that's > > when I discovered M-Net (aka "America's oldest public access UNIX > system). > > The year was 1986, and M-Net was a 12 line UNIX conferencing system > > running > > an Altos 68020. It had message boards and an interactive chat room > called > > "party". Coolest thing ever. In addition to the online fun, they got > > together for weekly happy hour gatherings every Friday night at an all > > ages > > place, and monthly parties called Picofests took place (in honor of the > > BBS > > software Picospan, which was originally written for M-Net but more > > popularly > > known by users of The Well). > > > > In addition to that ran various BBSes of my own in the late 80s, > nighttime > > only at first since I couldn't really afford my own phone line, but then > I > > got a job and got a phone line. I ran a BBS devoted to Commodore 64 SID > > music files, and for a while I was a beta tester for an Amiga BBS > software > > called Paragon (which was renamed Starnet at some point). > > > > The name of my Amiga BBS was always "Alternate Reality" and at some > point > > I > > was a UUCP node named "areality". > > > > to this day, I still use M-Net - pretty much daily, I'm currently an > > elected > > board member. www.arbornet.org > > > > It's still a public access unix system offering free shell accounts and > > picospan-like conferencing, though there is a web interface now to the > > conferencing system. I don't use the web interface though, I still just > > SSH > > in and do it all text-based. > > -- > > Rick Root > > New Brian Vander Ark Album, songs in the music player and cool behind > the > > scenes video at www.myspace.com/brianvanderark > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259602 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
