Josh Bailey wrote to All <=-
I'm very new, infact ive only been online for a few hours. Ecept for
the Web and EMAIL and stuff.
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A lot of the BBS scene has changed since those days. Used to be every computer store had their own dial-up BBS to showcase their services and goods. Hobbyist BBS systems existed in most large towns and small cities. Each area code had LOADS of BBS systems. One might have to sit on redial for an hour or more to connect to their favorite BBS.
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.
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
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KrAABY Gamer BBS
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
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
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