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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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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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
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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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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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