[TriLUG] Fwd: Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city

[Rob Rousseau]

Around 1989 or so, my friends and I were logging into local BBS, first
using his 300 baud acoustical modem (dial on phone, listen for
carrier, then plugged it into the modem cups).  I was fortunate enough
to have an IBM PC at home that when my Dad wasn't using it for work, I
would load up Telix (yay Zmodem!) or Procomm and dial in to the BBS
scene (at 14.4k or 28.8k later).  A friend of ours knew someone in the
CATT program at NCSU and we then started dialing in using a guest
account.  We used TinyTalk to connect to the MUDs, MUCKs, MUSH, MOOs,
etc...(Islandia anyone?).  Distinctly remember being up at 5am talking
to users in Australia.  There was a bot named Oreo and I had to
explain what an Oreo cookie was because they had not seen one before.
-Rob

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Best I can tell, I started a few months after Tom, in the Summer of 1992.
>
> Here's a posting that I made to comp.os.linux, asking for help with
> a hard disk problem.  Linus responded with a fix.
>
> Alan
>
> From: torvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
> Subject: Re: HD interrupts and IDE
> Date: 30 Aug 92 22:16:12 GMT
> Organization: University of Helsinki
>
> In article <1992Aug30.161030.5898 at ncsu.edu> big at garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Alan
> Porter) writes: