Micom 2000
Veteran Member
I just checked out the "Retrochallenge" site that I had bookmarked. Couln't find the original announcement.
http://retrochallenge.net/2008/winter/index.html
An interesting idea and site. They have a BBS forum and I accessed it, registered etc.
WaZoo !! What a retrograde experience !
I virtually lived on BBS's thru the late 80s and 90s. The sysop on the Atari BBS in Toronto called me "cheap" cause I couldn't afford more than the 2400 I was using rather than a 9600. Hell I could barely afford floppies and he attributed any problems I had to this, rather than his own inadequate set-up. The sys-op reigned supreme in those days and challenging him meant banishment. That was devastating if the BBS was especially necessary to your needs.
I entered the world of the Internet thru the Toronto Freenet BBS(Compuserve was for the wealthy or corporations) and later explored other Freenets including the Case-Western and one based in Nova Scotia, Can., called the Chebucto Bay Freenet.
Voila ! That is the host of the site.
We used Lynx and all the Archie-comics based, and other primitive apps., as compared to the point and click web of today and I had to repeatedly consult the help file to traverse the ins and outs of using the programs. The BBS help file was like an old friend rediscovered.
I've been avoiding the on-line BBS' but that was fun.
Lawrence
http://retrochallenge.net/2008/winter/index.html
An interesting idea and site. They have a BBS forum and I accessed it, registered etc.
WaZoo !! What a retrograde experience !
I virtually lived on BBS's thru the late 80s and 90s. The sysop on the Atari BBS in Toronto called me "cheap" cause I couldn't afford more than the 2400 I was using rather than a 9600. Hell I could barely afford floppies and he attributed any problems I had to this, rather than his own inadequate set-up. The sys-op reigned supreme in those days and challenging him meant banishment. That was devastating if the BBS was especially necessary to your needs.
I entered the world of the Internet thru the Toronto Freenet BBS(Compuserve was for the wealthy or corporations) and later explored other Freenets including the Case-Western and one based in Nova Scotia, Can., called the Chebucto Bay Freenet.
Voila ! That is the host of the site.
We used Lynx and all the Archie-comics based, and other primitive apps., as compared to the point and click web of today and I had to repeatedly consult the help file to traverse the ins and outs of using the programs. The BBS help file was like an old friend rediscovered.
I've been avoiding the on-line BBS' but that was fun.
Lawrence