<VV> BBS - off topic

[J R Read_HML]

Yes, In the Commodore 64 days (mid - late '80s) I was part of a local club 
that supported a BBS (Bulletin Board System) run out of the house of one of 
the members.  Could post msgs and up/download software.  If you wanted a 
"big" program, you would start the download and go to bed.  Why?  Because it 
was all done dial-up at a painfully slow 300 baud rate.  Later, I got a 1200 
baud modem which was about as fast as you could go with a 64.

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Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu at roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Huh?


>>
>>This isn't a forum... it's an email reflector...
>
>
> Yep.  For the old-timers who were doing logons before the Internet came 
> along, such mail lists were called "Echos".   You were working "local" 
> dialup networked BBS's in order to access info via networks such as FIDO, 
> RIME, etc.    The lists were supported by people who would run a BBS 
> usually based on their own home PC with access nodes (or usually just a 
> single node) for people to call up and logon onto the PC hosting the BBS 
> software.

   On it are various echo e-mail
> postings, uploads, etc which are accessible to whoever subscribes to the 
> BBS.  Some were free, some required a subscription fee, usually not much, 
> so as to help support the BBS via enabling the owner or sysop to pay for 
> the phone line and hardware upgrades along the way.
>
> I'd wager at least one sort (maybe many) in here have run a board...  any 
> sysops on the list?
>
>
>
> Everybody take a breath...
>
>
> tony..
>