Subj : BBS Documentary
To   : Eric Oulashin
From : Matt Bedynek
Date : Tue Jun 30 2015 10:40 pm

On 6/30/2015 12:08 AM, Eric Oulashin -> Matt Bedynek wrote:

 EO> I agree, it was good to see what was covered by the documentary, and I
 EO> enjoyed
 EO> watching it and remembering my time using BBSes in the 90s (I first 
started
 EO> using BBSes in 1992 when I got my own PC and modem).

One part part of it that really hit me was when one of those interviewed 
mentioned how they could tell what part of the system a user was on by the 
sounds the system made.  I remember this clearly when I ran a single node 
system with no multitasking.  The loading of the BBS from the mailer, logging 
in, checking mail and even launching doors.  I couldn't have remembered that 
degree of detail otherwise.

 EO> My BBS usually gets anywhere between 3 and 10 calls a day (sometimes a
 EO> little
 EO> more or less).  There are a few doors that are popular, and sometimes my
 EO> BBS
 EO> gets around an hour and a half or 2 hours of use each day (sometimes
 EO> more or
 EO> less).

I believe my primary focus would be a few popular games and collecting of hard 
to find files.  It is strange but I started remembering the names of tools even 
though many are not practical to use today.  At least as far as Unix is 
concerned most of what those utilities did could be done with a perl or python 
script.

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