Ive been nodelisted since 1996.
Time flies.


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Hello Utopian Galt!

On 01 Aug 2022, Utopian Galt said the following...

Ive been nodelisted since 1996.
Time flies.

Sure does! Myself, I'll have to cope with only being listed in the 90s and then taking a hiatus for 22 years. :)

Best regards
Zip

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Zip wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

On 01 Aug 2022, Utopian Galt said the following...

Ive been nodelisted since 1996.
Time flies.

Sure does! Myself, I'll have to cope with only being listed in
the 90s and then taking a hiatus for 22 years. :)

Same interval here! '93-'96 and then 2018-present. :-)



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*** Quoting Zip from a message to Utopian Galt ***

Ive been nodelisted since 1996.

Time flies.

Sure does! Myself, I'll have to cope with only being listed in the
90s and then taking a hiatus for 22 years. :)

Similar boat to me, I was listed from 1996-1999, a brief stint in 2003 and then back in 2020.


Jay

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On 01 Aug 2022, Utopian Galt said the following...

Ive been nodelisted since 1996.
Time flies.

I've been listed since 1989, but not continuously. Have 1:154/154 just like when SPOT BBS went on hiatus in 1991. Was originally 1:154/110 but that got changed with some renumbering scheme that didn't stick.

Was a point before 1989, as I didn't have the coin for a separate data phone line to leave SPOT up and running and was often on-call for work so I couldn't switch over for the national calling hour.

OPUS CBBS on a Columbia PC Clone with a US Robotics Courier HST was as deluxe as it got back then.

Good old days!

--- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS

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Hello Gamgee!

On 02 Aug 2022, Gamgee said the following...

Same interval here! '93-'96 and then 2018-present. :-)

I got my first modem in the summer of 1993. Back then, some of the cheaper modems (including mine, a SupraFAXModem 24/96i) didn't have MNP error correction/compression in hardware, but instead let it be implemented in software (somehow). I remember using a DOS terminal program called COMit (by Tradewind Software) which did that.

If I remember correctly, it had a simple BBS-like remote control of some sort built in. I later switched to Telemate, which had a scripting language for something more like a BBS. I remember modifying some of the message area parts of that. Then later I switched to Terminate as my terminal program of choice (and it had IEMSI logins!), and used FrontDoor+RemoteAccess as mailer/BBS.

Switched OS etc. a couple of times -- first MS-DOS, then DesqView on MS-DOS, then Windows 3.1 on MS-DOS, then OS/2 2.1 and 3.0, then Windows NT 4, then Windows 2000 Professional, and then it was Internet and WWW time... with that 22-year hiatus.

Experimenting with some odd hardware (Microsoft Xbox + Xebian, and an ASUS netbook + Debian) in the mean time, and now settled with an Intel NUC and the latest Debian for the server, and currently Windows 10 on my desktop. :)

Best regards
Zip

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Hello Warpslide!

On 02 Aug 2022, Warpslide said the following...

Similar boat to me, I was listed from 1996-1999, a brief stint in 2003
and then back in 2020.

And it's nice to be back! All those memories, and the joy of people still fiddling with their BBSes... =)

Best regards
Zip

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