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  • Re: Anyone new to BBS?

    From Mickey@VERT/TRANSPO to Nightfox on Sun Jun 8 19:11:45 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: Nightfox to Weatherman on Sat Jun 07 2025 08:17:59


    I always felt like it was really cool that people had the ingenuity to come up with dialup modems, to be able to convert digital information to analog audio and back and transfer data over phone lines (and it's probably much the same technique used to store computer data onto audio cassette tape).

    Remember Commodore Quantum Link? I was on that service all the time. Great fun times.

    Mickey

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mickey on Mon Jun 9 09:51:59 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: Mickey to Nightfox on Sun Jun 08 2025 07:11 pm

    Remember Commodore Quantum Link? I was on that service all the time. Great fun times.

    I remember hearing about it. I was a kid then and didn't have my own computer, so I didn't get a whole lot of chance to use stuff like that. My dad always had computers when I was growing up, though he didn't use that one. I remember him using CompuServe, and maybe Prodigy. Sometimes he'd let me browse files for PC games on CompuServe to find a new PC game to download.

    Nightfox

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  • From KrAAB@VERT/KRAABY to Mickey on Mon Jun 9 16:49:06 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: Mickey to Nightfox on Sun Jun 08 2025 19:11:45

    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: Nightfox to Weatherman on Sat Jun 07 2025 08:17:59


    I always felt like it was really cool that people had the ingenuity to come up with dialup modems, to be able to convert digital information t > Ni> analog audio and back and transfer data over phone lines (and it's
    probably much the same technique used to store computer data onto audio > Ni> cassette tape).

    Remember Commodore Quantum Link? I was on that service all the time. Great > times.

    Mickey


    WOW ya I remember Quantum Link, my dad had it and even ran a BBS on a C64. He actually had a 10MB HD that was in a case kinda like the 1541 drive. He ran that for years until he went to a PC and ran PCBoard for ages.
    Barry Davis Jr
    SysOp
    KrAABY Gamer BBS

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to KrAAB on Mon Jun 9 18:45:06 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: KrAAB to Mickey on Mon Jun 09 2025 04:49 pm


    WOW ya I remember Quantum Link, my dad had it and even ran a BBS on a C64. He actually had a 10MB HD that was in a case kinda like the 1541 drive. He ran that for years until he went to a PC and ran PCBoard for ages.
    Barry Davis Jr
    SysOp
    KrAABY Gamer BBS


    i remember my uncle was on it. it was pretty cool. he died in april. dont smoke, people.
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  • From Mickey@VERT/TRANSPO to Nightfox on Mon Jun 9 19:03:27 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: Nightfox to Mickey on Mon Jun 09 2025 09:51:59

    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?

    Remember Commodore Quantum Link? I was on that service all the time.
    I remember hearing about it. I was a kid then and didn't have my own computer, so I didn't get a whole lot of chance to use stuff like that.
    My dad always had computers when I was growing up, though he didn't use

    I must have a few years on ya. There were no 'home' computers until I was in my early 30's. Q-Link was aimed at the Commodore 64 and included Q-links floppy to access it. It was magic at the time. Eventually it was re-done to incluse Atari and Apple's and then they sold out to Compuserve (I believe) and it was gone for me. Thats when I started my first BBS using All American. :-)

    Mick Manning
    https://facebook.com/mick.manning

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  • From Mickey@VERT/TRANSPO to KrAAB on Mon Jun 9 20:27:06 2025
    Re: Re: Anyone new to BBS?
    By: KrAAB to Mickey on Mon Jun 09 2025 16:49:06


    Remember Commodore Quantum Link? I was on that service all the time. Great
    times.

    WOW ya I remember Quantum Link, my dad had it and even ran a BBS on a C64. He actually had a 10MB HD that was in a case kinda like the 1541 drive. He ran that for years until he went to a PC and ran PCBoard for ages. Barry Davis Jr

    Thats awesome. The 1541 was a floppy drive. I had 3 of them on top of each other until I switched to the Amiga 1000.

    Mick Manning
    https://facebook.com/mick.manning

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Mickey on Tue Jun 10 08:14:39 2025
    Mickey wrote to Nightfox <=-

    was re-done to incluse Atari and Apple's and then they sold out to Compuserve (I believe) and it was gone for me. Thats when I started my first BBS using All American. :-)

    CompuServe was fun, right before I discovered the internet. I worked for
    a software company that had a support forum on CI$, and we got a handful
    of free accounts to use. It was a lot more fun when not paying by the
    minute...

    Novell Netware was all about CI$ - all of the support forums were there
    and they had an email gateway that got people email long before they had
    direct connection to the internet. I got most of my support info those
    days on it.



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