On 25 Jan 2024 at 06:09p, Ogg pondered and said...

Hello vaelen!

** On Tuesday 23.01.24 - 17:58, vaelen wrote to All:

Back in the 90s I ran a very small Star Trek themed
BBS in San Antonio, TX USA and at the time I had
Fidonet setup with the BBS dialing my parent in the
node list every day to sync.

The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

I found that frustratingly difficult to search,
actually. It's fine if one knows a node number or
a name, but there was no way to look at, say, a
regional network.

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Hello tenser!

** On Sunday 28.01.24 - 09:48, tenser wrote to Ogg:

** On Tuesday 23.01.24 - 17:58, vaelen wrote to All:

Back in the 90s I ran a very small Star Trek themed
BBS in San Antonio, TX USA and at the time I had
Fidonet setup with the BBS dialing my parent in the
node list every day to sync.

The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

I found that frustratingly difficult to search,
actually. It's fine if one knows a node number or
a name, but there was no way to look at, say, a
regional network.

I primarily use it using a sysop name. So, in this case, all
vaelen has to do is enter his own name (presumably he knows the
"real" name he used for fidonet) and the system will remind him
what his bbs name was.


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tenser wrote to Ogg <=-

The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

I found that frustratingly difficult to search,
actually. It's fine if one knows a node number or
a name, but there was no way to look at, say, a
regional network.

Archived collections of nodelists are easy to find.

This particular collection goes back to 1984:

https://www.kuehlbox.wtf/files/fidohist/nodelist



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The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up

Well, I'm not listed there, so I wonder what I was doing at the time.
I know my board called a hub to pass mail and that I sent and received
mail from other boards though.

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You don't play guitar, do you?

No, sadly not. :) I also didn't program Pascal at the time, I was still
really into BASIC at that point.

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The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up

Well, I'm not listed there, so I wonder what I was doing at the time.
I know my board called a hub to pass mail and that I sent and received
mail from other boards though.

You may have been on another network. I think you said you were running non-intel hardware, which may have limited your choices. I know the GT
Power Network was big in Texas (over 100 nodes at one point), but that
would have required you to be running a GT Power BBS on intel hardware.

There was also RIME/RelayNet which required proprietary software for most
of its early existence and (I think) that software may have been for
intel hardware only.

There were a few other networks around that were not FIDO and also didn't
use FTN software.


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Hi Vaelen,

On Wednesday January 24 2024, Vaelen said to vorlon:

A Babylon5 fan?

Yeah, definitely! When I first went to get my domain name, Valen was already taken, so I ended up with Vaelen. (this was back in the 90s, and valen.com was a Babylon 5 fan site, I think.)

You need to be quick to get worthwhile domain names!

Back in the day, the local tv station that used to broadcast B5 had it on
after a "Live" show that always ran overtime. That was a huge pain in the
rear end, as at that time I was a rotating shift worker. So some nights I
had to get my father to hit the record button on the VHS. Other times I
would get home just before it started (should have been 10:30pm) and was
able to watch it.


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

Rocking FSXnet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.

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On 27 Jan 2024 at 08:28p, Gamgee pondered and said...

tenser wrote to Ogg <=-

The history of nodelisted sysops is easy to look up:

https://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/

I found that frustratingly difficult to search,
actually. It's fine if one knows a node number or
a name, but there was no way to look at, say, a
regional network.

Archived collections of nodelists are easy to find.

This particular collection goes back to 1984:

https://www.kuehlbox.wtf/files/fidohist/nodelist

Ah, very cool; thanks!

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On 28 Jan 2024 at 01:31p, vaelen pondered and said...

No, sadly not. :) I also didn't program Pascal at the time, I was still really into BASIC at that point.

It would have been too much of a coincidence!

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Those were the days! I watched most of B5 on a tiny 15" TV in my room. I
would sometimes forget it was on and then just miss an episode. (I can't
even fathom that idea these days.)

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Nice to see another SubText BBS pop up!

Welcome to the global network.

-andy

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Hey massive! Good to see you here. :)

Also, I think it's pretty funny that we're both Andrews.

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Re: Re: Re: Introduction
By: vaelen to tenser on Thu Jan 25 2024 10:05 am

I worked for an ISP starting in 1996 (while still in HS) and got an ISDN line to my house, which was blazing fast!

I had ISDN for a whlie too (wrote software and firmware for an ISDN terminal adapter). 128Kbps baby! But charged per 64Kbps "B channel" per minute. Ouch. :-(
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Digital Man wrote to vaelen <=-

I worked for an ISP starting in 1996 (while still in HS) and got an ISDN line to my house, which was blazing fast!

I had ISDN for a whlie too (wrote software and firmware for an ISDN terminal adapter). 128Kbps baby! But charged per 64Kbps "B channel" per minute. Ouch.

I had work paying for an ISDN line to my house. I would connect to a
Shiva LANRover at work for access to my company LAN, and use it to
connect to the internet. I don't recall if inbound calls were charged
or if my callers had dwindled at that point that I didn't worry about
it.

That was the first time I downloaded fido packets via the internet, and
it was eye-opening being able to connect multiple times a day.

A couple of years earlier at another company, we had an Ascend Pipeline
router in the office with a PRI circuit and BRIs out with employees.
Had a problem with one of the sites connecting, called Pac Bell to sort
it out and spoke to Scott Adams. He still worked for Bell while writing
Dilbert.



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Howdy! Valean,
I'm W9ODR in Indiana, long ago was in US Navy and visited Tokyo once whiwe le Ship was in Yokosuka.
Didn't go to the Ginza(?), me and a Super Chief went downtown to shop and eat.

Other interests are photography and Bible study.

A friend had version 6.11 CD of The Online Bible that I borrowed and there was a Mac install on it as well as DOS and Windows (pardon my language
. . . . . . )

I knew a person that owned an original MacIntosh PC, the AIO Model with the 3.5" floppy slot below the monitor.
The Mac belonged to his wife but he wanted to read the Bible on her Computer.

In the early 1990's I visited a Apple Store to see if I would be interested in buying one.
Back then my PC was a C=64 and I was trying to decide whether to get an Apple ][ or Clone computer.

I knew several Hams who owned a MacIntosh and while in the Apple Store (BTW the Store had a Private owner, it wasn't owned by Apple Corp.)
I asked to try a MAC. After some minutes I asked Salesman "How do I get to BASIC on this? He told me BASIC is an Option and it costs $200.00 more than the price for the MAC.

I thanked him and left the Store.

Now back to my installation of the OLB on their MAC:
From the OLB CD I had put the MAC Version on a bunch of 3.5" floppies.
I remembered after what was on a disk finished, to remove it to insert another disk I was told to drag it onto the TRASH Icon because there wasn't a Button alongside the Drive slot.
Because I have used a PC Clone at work, the idea of Trashing a disk seemed radical to me

Anyhow after all of the floppies had been installed, the family could use that Program.
At least the MAC didn't crash while my hands were on it.

While typing this I thought of a procedure to Enlarge or Shrink the size of the characters on a monitor, which someone(s) on a BBS told me can be done by holding down a CTRL Key and moving the Scroll wheel on the Mouse back or forward.

Will that routine do that as well on an MAC, iMAC?

Thank You!

de ED W9ODR - . -
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