Subj : Re: Favorite BBS software
To   : Eric Oulashin
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Thu May 12 2016 01:03 am


On May 11, 2016 08:24pm, Eric Oulashin wrote to Sean Dennis:

 EO> Yeah, I agree there.  I still enjoy my BBS running Synchronet, so I'll
 EO> probably continue with Synchronet for the time being.

The most comfortable system I encountered was when I was in High School in my
Freshman year I got an afterschool job with a company called D.I.S.K. (Digital
Information System of Kentucky).  It was an old Dec PDP11 machine had tons of
games and Louisville's first publically accessable usenet and the early form
of internet e-mail with !bang addresses.

Looked much like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWOfN9p5E8k

I went in afterschool did homework and answered all the console bells and
alarms that went off.  It took about 64 callers at a time and occasionally I
would get a customer call and yell at me because they got booted off and
couln't get back on and wanted a credit becuase they didn't get to finish
their whatever they were doing at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWOfN9p5E8k

That's what the old machine looked like and yes when homework was done I
played the space invaders... there was an old game called DECWars that was
kind of like a starwars / tradewars kind of game that people played against
each other.  And ASCII Checkers... those were the days.

 A long time ago, on a node far, far away (from ucbvax)
 a great Adventure (game?) took place...


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     X    X  XXXXX   X               X    X  X    X  X    X   XXXX     X
     X    X  X       X               X XX X  XXXXXX  XXXXX        X    X
     X    X  X       X    X          XX  XX  X    X  X   X   X    X
     XXXXX   XXXXXX   XXXX           X    X  X    X  X    X   XXXX     X


And I had my little BBS at home that could not compare.  DISK was located in a
little small shopping strip next to a phone company office building.  There
was a massive cable that literally stretched between the buildings and people
actually paid $5.00 an hour to connect to that thing.

Allen

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