[Coco] Reminiscing...

[Stan Blazejewski]

G'day George,

Ahh yeah, 'those' days .... I got so much into modems that I even ran a BBS for
about 12 years.  Started with a 300 baud modem I built myself & modified to auto
answer & running CoBBS (BASIC) software on 2 floppy drives.  It ended up with
9600 baud modem, 2 hard drives totaling about 200 meg & 3 floppy drives running
under RiBBS (OS9).  Then the Internet came along & interest in BBS's faded. In
the end  I was lucky to get one logon a month so finally closed it down.  At
it's peak I was getting regular calls from USA (I'm in Australia if you haven't
worked that out), must have cost them fortune!!

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:46:09 -0500, you wrote:

> I was just catching up on the coco list and based on the thread about "who 
>sold", my thoughts began wandering and came to a wondering about who(here 
>today) remembers anything similar to my first connection with the coco world 
>via modem.
> I can't remember the dial up company name that gave access to various 
>databases and computer systems, such as Compuserve.
>
> My first encounter with the outside world of computers and specifically, 
>coco SIGS, was through this medium.
>
> It was exciting.
> It was fun.
> It was interesting.
> It was informative.
>
>
> It was slow.... Three hundred baud is a real drag. but I didn't know it at 
>the time.  That was about as fast as I could read!
> It was plenty fast and I was impressed.
>
> Downloads didn't take long. Most were NEVER over a few thousand bytes, 
>maybe 8K.
> Text files that took an hour to read, would take just a few minutes to 
>download. Those files could be more than 10Kbytes.
>
> A BBS screen full(80X23) would only take about 64 seconds to load at 300 
>baud. By the time is was loaded, you already knew what was there.
>
> It would be fun if someone could poll the group to see what percentage of 
>us has....
>
>"been there, done that!"
>
>
> I would do this, but I don't know how.
--

Australia isn't "down under", it's "off to one side"!

stanblaz at netspace.net.au
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