rdd_at_rddavis.org wrote...
> Were most others here sysops of BBSs at one time as well? This brings
> back memories of BBSing back when I was in college
Indeed... Happy days :-). I was sysop of Protocol BBS in lovely
Horsham, Sussex, UK up until late 1993 or so. Frankly, Fidonet was
more enjoyable than most stuff on the internet if you ask me :-). The
phone bills were a killer though (I was zone gatewaying for Amiganet,
between zone 1 and 4 IIRC (US and Europe, anyway,) so nightly
international phone calls were fairly scary...)
That ran on the Amiga - I forget the name of the software I used,
although writing my own was my first big project in C, so in the latter
days it ran on my homebrew "Panorama BBS" software... If I ever get
to recover the Miggy it's probably all still on there...
To drag slightly back on topic, before that I had been a great user
of Compunet, Prestel & Telecom Gold (BT's X.25 network,) all via
the good old Commodore modem for the C64... A roaring 300 baud half
duplex, or breaking the sound barrier at 1200/75 full :-). I really
hope that modem is still in the loft somewhere...
Anyway... Re. the suggestions of a sort of classic private network,
I'd love to be involved somehow. I've always wanted to do something like
that with packet radio, but never got round to it...
Cheers,
Tim.
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Tim Walls at home in Croydon - Reply to tim_at_snowgoons.fsnet.co.uk
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 15:59:52 GMT