Early timesharing/BBS systems

From: Gordon Tulloch <gtulloch_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Mon Jul 19 23:15:05 2004

Ward Christianson and Randy Suess rolled out CBBS (Chicago BBS) in 1978
on CP/M boxes - details at
http://www.portcommodore.com/commodore/bbs/cbbs.html. Not long after
that a number of RCP/M systems arose... I started my first BBS on Apple
][ in 1984 on a 300 bps Hayes Micromodem :)

"Hey, who needs more than 300 baud, it's not like you can read any faster!"

Regards,
   Gord

Richard A. Cini wrote:
> Anyway, this demo brings-up an interesting question. What kind of dial-up
> systems existed in the 70's before consumer-oriented services like
> CompuServe? I remember the DowJones and CompuServe sign-up packs at
> RadioShack in maybe 1979 (I joined CIS in 1988. I even remember my ID:
> 70153,3367). I also remember in high school (around 1983) using a DECwriter
> to dial into the timesharing computer (at 300 baud; I don't know the host
> system) at one of the local universities.
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