Man I miss the good old BBS days.... when very few outside the hobbyist
computer users really knew about that secret little world of on-line usage.
I ran a BBS on an Atari 800 at first with just 1 88K 810 disk drive, 850
interface and a Hayes 300 smartmodem... later on it grew to 4 Atari 800's
connected to a Corvus 10mb HD and I had some custom relay signal boards on
the joystick ports to allow users to participate on a multiuser chat room,
it was very kludgy and locked up a lot, but it was so much fun to experiment
and try things out and to console in on a user and say hi and get into a
realtime conversation. Ah the good old days! :-)
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: BBS systems on PDP-11s (was: Original Searchlight bbs...)
> Quothe Dave McGuire, from writings of Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at
04:40:03PM -0500:
> > On February 7, R. D. Davis wrote:
> > > Were most others here sysops of BBSs at one time as well?
> >
> > I ran an RCP/M BBS, the "Mercerville RCP/M", in Mercerville NJ (near
> > Trenton and Princeton) from about mid-1985 to 1988 or so. I enjoyed
> > it very much. I sorta miss the "culture" of BBSs.
>
> Me too. If everyone could have their own class C network, there would
> probably still be many active BBS's accessible via telnet; web sites
> just aren't the same. BBS's provided a degree of autonomy that isn't
> necessarily available over the WWW. For example, many ISPs and
> mailing-list hosts impose "politically correct" rules limiting freedom
> of speech. Many BBSs, on the other hand, had more of an "anything
> goes" environment - at least some, like mine, did. There was no one
> to regulate content on BBSs, and the telephone co. didn't go around
> disconnecting people for the content on their BBSs. On my BBS, there
> existed unlimited freedom of speech, although I discouraged profane
> language in most situations; this was the opposite of some local BBSs
> run by tyrants who'd readily kick users off-line for offending anyone
> who was the least bit over-sensitive.
>
> It might be fun to put some of our older systems back on-line as BBS
> systems! All I need, if I recall correctly, to bring my old BBS to
> life again is fossil driver, which I think I'm missing, but I might
> have it around here on a floppy somewhere.
>
> If anyone's intersted in putting classic systems on-line as BBS
> systems, I'll gladly maintain a list of systems, telephone numbers,
> hours of operation, etc. and make it available on my web site.
>
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