[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[David Both via TriLUG]

On 08/26/2016 08:25 AM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 02:29 -0400, David Burton via TriLUG wrote:
>> I think I probably had the last BBS up and running in the Triangle
>> <http://archive.is/CxHPo#selection-9.1680-9.1758>. One of the very
>> last
>> ones, anyhow.
>>   
>> It ran Waffle, on OS/2, and provided a free dial-up UUCP email
>> forwarding
>> service for quite a few neighbors, once upon a time. It ran two
>> lines, but
>> I eventually cut it back to just one line, as a combination BBS+fax.
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 01:56 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On 08/25/2016 01:14 PM, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:
>>>   
>> I remember back when there were about 50 modem users in all of
>> Houston.
>> You could tell all of the Apple][ users since we typed in all caps!
>> From
>> 300 baud, things have REALLY changed! :) Ric
>>
> I remember those good old days of calling up BBS systems, dialing and
> redialing for tens of minutes trying to get through to popular ones.  I
> remember one in particular had some sort of medieval, feudal, multi-
> player game going and you were allowed two turns per day.  It was a
> challenge to just get through.
>
> The other thing the BBS's were good for was repositories of free
> software to download.  Piracy was a big no-no, at least publicly,
> though there was certainly a counter culture, that seemed to be derived
> from the "phone freakers" that focused on breaking copy protection,
> which was pretty much a joke back then anyway and typically amounted to
> putting "error" sectors in hidden areas of the disk.
>
> I had several friends with whom I would call and we would switch our
> modems over to data (first 300 baud, then 1200, and when 2400 came out
> you were really cruising).  We would exchange game programs using
> protocols such as X-Modem, Punter, and Kermit and getting periods of
> bad phone connections were hair pulling events.
>
> It still amazes me what was done with 48K of ram and a 1 MHz, 8 bit
> processor, especially compared to a lot of the bloated garbage produced
> today.  There is still something intrinsically fun about those old game
> programs and I still like to play them on an emulator once in a while.
>
> I must be getting old ....
>
Some of us **ARE** old - I turn 70 on Sunday - I remember that, too. I 
about had an orgasm when I got my 56Kb modem. Thought I had died and 
gone to computer heaven. I had a CompuServe login for many years and 
thought that was cool.

Oh, well. Old sysadmins never die - their bits just start falling off. ;-)


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