Google.....1980's style

[Meatwad]

This reminds me back when dialup BBS's were all the rage. How I miss those days zooming along in a 9.6k modem

http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/

[PR3D4TOR]

 

[wil3ur]

That's freaking sweet...

[noTch]

This reminds me back when dialup BBS's were all the rage. How I miss those days zooming along in a 9.6k modem

http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/

Wow, weren't we fancy, with our 9.6k     Gettin up for coffee & a smoke, comin back and finally gettin the connection on a 1200 baud modem was pretty heady stuff  I remember bbs's weren't in the servers at a multi-national corporation but some dude's TRS80 he left on constantly.  Gawd forbid if his mom came home and needed to call Aunt Bertha to run down a shopping list or to gossip. You couldn't get on for days     Then forgetting to disable the ringer would mean you had to start all over with another cup o joe & more smoking    Awwwwww, the good old days

[Meatwad]

For a long time all I had was windows 3.1 and an internal modem. It was just a 1200 baud with an internal jumper to select the comport. Had Procomm Plus for DOS that I used. Ended up finding the 9600 at an auction along with a box of computer stuff for about $10, but this was back around 95 or so.  Had countless hours dialed into a toll free board and chatting half the night away.


Forgetting to turn the internal speaker on the modem card off or down low sucked, especially at 1am. For a little speaker, some of those were VERY loud.

[Sundowner]

9600 baud?  

Internal modem?

In 1982 I was using an EXTERNAL 300 baud Hayes Micro-modem on an Apple IIE to connect to BBSs.

I remember being so excited I woke up the wife when a BBS sysop typed live in text while I was logged on to verify my application of membership.

(For some reason she was NOT impressed. )

BTW, OP cool link.  

Regards,
Sun

[Vulcan]

Meh
 - started off on a 300 baud modem and upgraded to 1200/75
 - ran my own BBS for a few years with multiple modems
 - brought the first 9600 baud modem into NZ (well USR told me it was the first)
 - ran the BBS over a lantastic LAN (512kbps?)
 - acquired a 'low cost' phone circuit
 - was a member of Hackers Den and Pirates Cove
 - had friends arrested for 'misuse of a telephone'
 - had a friend write a notorious virus for a bottle of coke

Those were the days

[RTHolmes]

nice


one of our business software providers was still using modems for overnight updates until 2 years ago, when someone apparently told them about "the internets".

[DREDIOCK]

Funny, in the last two weeks I've run into a coupe of people I used to talk to back then.

Brings back alot of memories of old conversations. Talking about how hard rives were getting so cheap that they would on day be offering them as prizes in cerial boxes a 10 Meg hard drive was HUGE back then and people shuddering at even the thoughts of a 1ghz machine in the future and someone saying "You going to be running a home PC or a radio station?"

[DREDIOCK]

Meh
 - started off on a 300 baud modem and upgraded to 1200/75
 - ran my own BBS for a few years with multiple modems
 - brought the first 9600 baud modem into NZ (well USR told me it was the first)
 - ran the BBS over a lantastic LAN (512kbps?)
 - acquired a 'low cost' phone circuit
 - was a member of Hackers Den and Pirates Cove
 - had friends arrested for 'misuse of a telephone'
 - had a friend write a notorious virus for a bottle of coke

Those were the days

I vaguely remember the Pirates cove.
Not the site itself but some of your work. Assuming yours was the same organization. Did  alot of ummmm stuff for the C-64. yes?

[wil3ur]

I only ever went to Moe's Back Door, great local BBS in NW Montana for a while...  Then eventually I got into Telnet gaming.  I just recently got out of that phase...   

[Vulcan]

I vaguely remember the Pirates cove.
Not the site itself but some of your work. Assuming yours was the same organization. Did  alot of ummmm stuff for the C-64. yes?

Sorry I was a member of, I did not run it. There we lots of interesting 'things' on both bbs's

[katanaso]

Funny.

I searched for 'Zork' and 'Eliza', appropriate for the time.  hehe

I used to dial the Pirates Cove as well, back in 1981 or 1982. 

I'm sure most of us who were into it back then did the same stuff -- BBSes and whatnot.  My folks still have both the IBM PC and Apple II from back then, as well as several hundred floppies.