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When I discovered BBS'es at 15 ( 1988 ) my life changed considerably. It was, as mentioned below, like a secret Goonies tunnel to the upside down...... I ende
by jasondigitized 9y ago
When I discovered BBS'es at 15 ( 1988 ) my life changed considerably. It was, as mentioned below, like a secret Goonies tunnel to the upside down......
I ended up running my own BBS on my C64 and had to get a job to pay for the extra phone line and the array of 1581 3.5 drives I had to buy to support it. I was up all hours of the night talking to people who logged in. Trying out new BBS software, getting into ASCII art, warez, demos, etc. was a lot of fun.
It got so bad my mom had to sit me down and tell me that I had to go outside and ride my bike, play football, etc.
Nearly 30 years later I am still working with software everyday and enjoying ever minute of it. I do have to remind myself to go outside.......
- Clubber 9y agoSounds familiar. BBSes is what got me interested in coding. I would mod the BBS and I got to show everyone and release mod files to other BBS owners. We ran C-NET variants at the time. I switched to PC in the 1990s and WWIV was the closest to CNET, and if you registered (paid) you got the source code. There was also inter-BBS networking available that predated (public) email and newsgroups.
- lunchables 9y ago>1581 I assume this is a model number? You couldn't possibly mean 1,581 3.5" drives ... right?
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYep. The 1541 was Commodore's original single-sided 5.25" floppy drive (you had to physically remove and flip the disk to read the other side). The 1571 was a double-sided 5.25" drive, and the 1581 was a double-sided double-density 3.5" drive. (Yes I know all those numbers from memory)