• Re: Good reason not to ru

    From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to MRO on Sun Oct 6 19:26:00 2024
    On 03 Oct 2024, MRO exclaimed the following...

    Re: RE: Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
    By: Mike to Mro on Fri Oct 04 2024 03:41 am
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    doorgames. hell, we don't even have users anymore.

    LOL. Ya got that right.

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
    centralontarioremote.net:23

    ... Just another prisoner of gravity!

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  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to Bf2k+ on Mon Oct 7 19:24:00 2024
    On 06 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

    I like running my BBS(es) at home. Been doing it since 1984. Of course they are very different now than they were then. Then, I only ran 1
    Atari 8-bit BBS on several floppy drives (and eventually a 5 mb hard
    disk (wow)).

    Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64 with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-)
    The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today, you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
    centralontarioremote.net:23

    ... Youth is glorious, but it isn't a career

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mickey on Tue Oct 8 07:08:00 2024
    Mickey wrote to Bf2k+ <=-

    Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64
    with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-) The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today,
    you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>

    I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the
    screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller
    saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I
    think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.

    My, how things have changed.



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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mickey on Tue Oct 8 14:00:44 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Mon Oct 07 2024 07:24 pm

    Warms my heart. I had the same kind of setup although a Commodore 64 with 3 X 1541 drives (floppies) :-)
    The difference was that back then, mostly people within your personal areacode called you, and today, you're available to the whole world and nobody calls. <grin>


    i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.
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  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Oct 8 19:18:00 2024
    On 08 Oct 2024, poindexter FORTRAN exclaimed the following...

    I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller
    saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I
    think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.


    So the first message got Nihilated? :-) Go Figure.

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
    centralontarioremote.net:23

    ... The dog ate my .REP packet

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  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to MRO on Tue Oct 8 19:24:00 2024
    On 08 Oct 2024, MRO exclaimed the following...

    i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.
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    The last few years that I ran a BBS was on an Amiga 2500 that had a 20 meg HD inside. Fairly distant locals became real locals. It was a big deal. I was invited out to Commodore meetings to discuss BBS's with everyone.

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
    centralontarioremote.net:23

    ... Condense soup, not books!

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  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to MRO on Tue Oct 8 18:27:03 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: MRO to Mickey on Tue Oct 08 2024 02:00 pm

    i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that.

    Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

    When I switched over to a PC (FidoNet), the caller ratio switched to 75% locals...

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  • From StingRay@VERT/ANETO to MRO on Tue Oct 8 18:27:21 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: MRO to Mickey on Tue Oct 08 2024 02:00 pm

    That's the truth! I ran BBSs from 93-97. In 1996 I offered dial-up internet service.
    If we called out to a BBS that was long distance we had to cut it real short, and it was always a nice surprise to receive a LD user.

    -StingRay
    A-Net Online
    a-net-online.lol

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mickey on Wed Oct 9 00:23:34 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: Mickey to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Oct 08 2024 07:18 pm

    On 08 Oct 2024, poindexter FORTRAN exclaimed the following...

    I saw Pure Nihilism BBS running on an Apple II, and was watching the screen as someone entered a message. I noticed that when the caller saved a message, it automatically deleted a message to make room. I think he had something like 300 messages on the board at the time.


    So the first message got Nihilated? :-) Go Figure.

    Mick Manning

    hahaaaa
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mickey on Wed Oct 9 00:24:36 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: Mickey to MRO on Tue Oct 08 2024 07:24 pm

    i think a lot of people have forgotten that the local aspect is what made bbsing great. a lot of sysops in today's age are blind to that. ---

    The last few years that I ran a BBS was on an Amiga 2500 that had a 20 meg HD inside. Fairly distant locals became real locals. It was a big deal. I was invited out to Commodore meetings to discuss BBS's with everyone.


    yeah i met some great people and we were friends for a long time, but they moved away and we lost touch.

    i tried to reconnect with a few but they got weird.
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  • From Mickey@VERT/INTERSPY to Bf2k+ on Wed Oct 9 19:11:00 2024
    On 08 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

    Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I
    had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

    Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

    Mick Manning
    @ Mick's Place
    centralontarioremote.net:23

    ... Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

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  • From kk4qbn@VERT/KK4QBN to Mickey on Wed Oct 9 22:01:33 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Wed Oct 09 2024 19:11:00

    Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

    Gotta love those 8 bit square boobies that took 12 hours to download.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to kk4qbn on Thu Oct 10 07:16:00 2024
    kk4qbn wrote to Mickey <=-

    Gotta love those 8 bit square boobies that took 12 hours to download.

    I worked at the company that developed Tomb Raider. It was odd working
    for a company where you could have scantilly-clad women on your PC
    background, as long as it was Lara Croft. PS1 era Lara was pretty
    polygon sparse, if you know what I'm saying.

    I was so pissed that they couldn't get it together enough to tie the
    game into the movie and get a release out to coincide with the movie
    release.



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  • From Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Oct 10 11:27:10 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to kk4qbn on Thu Oct 10 2024 07:16 am

    I worked at the company that developed Tomb Raider. It was odd working for a company where you could have scantilly-clad women on your PC background, as long as it was Lara Croft. PS1 era Lara was pretty polygon sparse, if you know what I'm saying.

    I was so pissed that they couldn't get it together enough to tie the game into the movie and get a release out to coincide with the movie release.

    I never played those games, but one thing I'm sometimes reminded of is that when I visited Germany and Switzerland in 1998, there was a German song on the radio at the time called Männer sind Schweine ("Men are pigs" in English; by Die Ärtze), and the music video featured Lara Croft.

    Nightfox
  • From Bf2k+@VERT/TACOPRON to Mickey on Thu Oct 10 20:15:12 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: Mickey to Bf2k+ on Wed Oct 09 2024 07:11 pm

    On 08 Oct 2024, Bf2k+ exclaimed the following...

    Strangely enough... when I was running the Atari 8bit BBS (1984-87), I had about 75% callers from long distance. I know why but refuse to comment on the grounds... etc etc.

    Atari software treasure I'd imagine or . . . porn. :-)

    No comment ;)

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to kk4qbn on Mon Oct 21 06:37:34 2024
    Re: Re: Good reason not to ru
    By: kk4qbn to Mickey on Wed Oct 09 2024 10:01 pm

    Gotta love those 8 bit square boobie
    that took 12 hours to download.

    My friend and I looking at a pic
    downloaded on my XT w/ CGA back in the
    day:

    Him: "Is that a dick or a tit?"
    Me: "That's his mouth..."

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