Re: BBS Memories

2008-05-02 Thread G Money
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 thinkand 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

RE: BBS Memories

2008-05-02 Thread Erika L. Walker
I wish I could remember the names of the BBS's I hung out in. I probably talked to a bunch of you and didn't even realize it. For some reason the Underground sounds so familiar ... :: -Original Message- :: From: G Money :: :: My favorite BBS's were Fat Freddy's, which was out on

Re: BBS Memories

2008-05-02 Thread Rick Root
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Erika L. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason the Underground sounds so familiar ... Probably a pretty common name. None of my BBSes lived long enough to make the historical lists like this: http://bbslist.textfiles.com/313/oldschool.html Oh I

Re: BBS Memories

2008-05-01 Thread Jerry Johnson
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

RE: BBS Memories

2008-05-01 Thread Erika L. Walker
I've got so much to add to this whole how I got started and BBS memories and programming in basic ... but I'm too tired to type up the book. Just stick this hybrid, geeky girl in there with the bunch of ya that already wrote about the above. Course I took a 10 year break to play with horses and

Re: BBS Memories

2008-05-01 Thread Rick Root
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were a lot of local boards, but my 2 national favorites were the Well from SF, If you liked The Well, try telnetting to m-net.arbornet.org and log in as newuser =) The Well was much more commercially successful

Re: BBS Memories

2008-05-01 Thread Loathe
Damn thats bringing back some damn memories. Jerry Johnson 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