Anyone here every use dial-up BBS?

mloc

I remember years ago (before the internet became all that widespread) using some Irish dialup bulletin boards, that you used a client or terminal window to connect to and operate. I remember there was a mac one that used FirstClass client or something. Can't remember the name of it...

anybody else remember such simple times?

Black Swan

No. Before my time. But I am sure there's a bunch of them under Tech in the Computer forum.

Pocari Sweat

I remember those big motorolla brick phones. They cost a thousand sterling in the mid to late 1980's and if you had a big padded leather jacket, you could just about tuck it in a large inside pocket and walk lobsided down the street.

mloc

ah i remember those too, my uncle is a doctor and used to have one. the childish excitement we'd have off ringing our house off it and hearing the phone ring. but not picking up of course, probably cost a fortune.

I dialled the US Robotics server at one stage in 1999 because I was having trouble with my modem in V.90 so wanted to see if X2 would be the same, which it was - crappy phone lines. It's the only time I ever used a BBS.

Red Alert

i used one once to browse the online catalogue of an Amiga dealer back when I had an internet-connected A1200.

Gone West

mloc wrote:

I remember years ago (before the internet became all that widespread) using some Irish dialup bulletin boards, that you used a client or terminal window to connect to and operate. I remember there was a mac one that used FirstClass client or something. Can't remember the name of it...

anybody else remember such simple times?

Irish?
:rolleyes: newbies.
I remember having to dial the US because there were none in Ireland or England.

Stephen

ooh, l33t.

EWheelChair

Fuzzylogic, UBER NERD.

monkeyfudge

I also used an Amiga one at one stage.

Dear god! The Amiga was wonderful!

robinph

I still use FirstClass, although an admittedly updated version of it, for accesing the Open University forums.

Yook

Yea, I used to dail up to Worldgroup and MajorBBS systems in the mid 90's, They were used for Chat, Games (Majormud) etc etc. But that was back in the day when servers had 20+ phone lines going into them. Good times!

yossarin

I used one once in school to get a pirated copy of prince of persia 1.

it had a trojan virus in it which borked my dads IBM clone with the green and black screen. bad times.

scojones

I remember when we wanted to win the euro vision and could!

blorg

Yes, majorly so, initially only Dublin ones due to phone costs but then Compunet got a node in Dublin and I would be on that 17 hours a day on my C64 and then C128. 1200/75 baud! The C128 was great because you could get an 80-column wide terminal. Uploading took a _long_ time, but they were the days when a local phone call wasn't metered, so a 17 hour call cost all of 11p.

So I well predate all ye "Amiga" people (although I did subsequently get an Amiga 2000, at that stage I wasn't connected to anything.)

When I went to college of course there was the internet (before the web in those days); I remember thinking that the web would _never_ take off because it was _so_ goddam slow (compared to the sprightly gopher.) Of course I didn't have internet access as an Arts first year but the geniuses in computer services had neglected to put passwords on the postmaster accounts on many of UCD's servers...

Now if you will excuse me I am off to sew leather patches onto my jacket and have a nice smoke of my pipe.

googs

dial up bbs... reminds me of a book i read a few years ago.... the link is below..

www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/info/books/suelette-dreyfus--underground.txt

Shabadu

Pff. I remember when the internet was all books.