[Smaug] How long have you been on the net?

[cerise@armory.com]

Ahhh, Rogue...

In 1981, my mother was teaching me how to read on a TRS-80.  I don't believe
it was until 83 that we got a 300 baud modem.  Shortly thereafter, we upgraded
to a Tandy 1000 which still sits in my room at home.

One of these days, I'll learn about monitors so that I can repair its monitor.

I'm interested in the BBS Documentary as well.  Sounds like something we ought
to show at a meeting, albeit in a different place than Tiny's.  Or on a 
weekend.

-Phil/CERisE

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:20:57AM -0700, Joe Sharmer wrote:
> Alright.. its funny the topics that bring the lurkers out (like me)
>  I too was online in 81 with my trusty old Vic20 and 300 baud modem ;) I
> also remember going to a friends house and being able to dial in to the UCSC
> systems and playing games (I think it was rogue) with other people. After
> that I was hooked. I went from the Vic20 to the C64, ran a bbs on that, then
> the Amiga and another bbs etc..
>  The bbs documentary is fantastic! I highly recommend seeing it. It brought
> back so many memorys of the 'good ole days'. I even started looking at the
> slew of telnet bbs's around but quickly lost interest ;).
>  Joe
> 
> 
>  On 11/9/05, Max Baker <max at warped.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:22:29PM -0800, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> > > Well, in that case, the first time I logged onto a BBS was at 300 baud
> > > in 1981 ...
> >
> > Hey, now that's getting off the off-topic! BBSing is a whole 'nother bag
> > of worms. I didn't start BBSing till 1200 BAUD :-) Anyone else besides
> > me get a copy of the BBS documentary that came out this year? I could
> > maybe arrange a showing or something. It's broken up into 1/2 hour
> > episodes with a PBS feel.
> >
> > Incidentally, I originally signed up my domain name because I had
> > illusions of porting WWIV (BBS Software) over to telnet and running my
> > board, The Warped BBS, off the internet. Then the web came and destroyed
> > the BBSing scene and I went off to college.
> >
> > -m
> >
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