Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all,
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.
Vanilla are planning an update to the site on April 24th (next Wednesday). It is a major PHP8 update which is expected to boost performance across the site. The site will be down from 7pm and it is expected to take about an hour to complete. We appreciate your patience during the update.
Thanks all.
Irish BBS'es of the late 1980's
Options
-
23-05-2008 8:00pm#1
Comments
-
DublinWriter wrote: »Does anyone here remember some of the early Irish Bulletin Board Systems?
I was well into the scene around 89/90, had a 2400 baud modem. Originally I had a loan of one, and in 90 managed to get my own - cost me around IR£150 if I remember correctly. Remember Wildcat! BBS
DUBBS somehow had something to do with SystemHouse technologies, tbh it was a bit sh1t because you had to pay for membership.
ICGP BBS was alright AFAIR - tended to be a bit quiet, but when everywhere else was engaged - it was worth a shot
One I remember, one was called Informatique - think it was run off an Amiga and 2 disk drives originally, I vaguely remember the story of a party and beer being spilt over it and it being down for a few days.
The last one had something like 4 lines and ran RemoteAccess BBS - can't remember what it was called - but because it had multiple lines you could chat to people online in realtime... Think you had a limit of 1 hour per day.
Remember how some boards were say 6pm to 8am boards, so if you got the wrong info, or they'd forgot to put it online, you'd have someone talking "hello, hello?" at you when you rang!!!
RemoteAccess BBS was really a great bit of kit, thru' a lot of blagging and the like, I'd managed to get enough bits to get a spare machine together - but in the end could never manage the phone line. But I got it all up and running with X/Y/Z Modem, Kermit etc, and all the ASCII Art.... Called it The Hermits Cave.
I was actually so into it that when I started college in 1990 I started my 4th year project in 1st year (never actually made it to 4th year) writing a DESQView aware BBS using Turbo Pascal and the Turbo Power Async Pro Library. Got most of it done too, by the end I knew DESQview inside out - it was a truely fantastic product in its time.
D.0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Advertisement