<OT> Re: 1/2 dozenth request over 3-years

[J]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 20:59, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh, I had 9 modems running full time, on an 8 line BBS, back in the
> day. Pure Linux command line login, too. The extra modem was on a
> dedicated WideArea Line to Charleston WV from Beckley WV. That got me,
> and my users, a connection to the Internet. Imagine all of them
> squawking, answering the phone lines at once. I had rollover installed
> to take the callers on the same number rolling over to the next
> available one and it's modem. A 14.4 connection, using only text, was
> fast. And, I ran that on a 486 with 32 megs of memory. Then someone came
> up with PPP and it all got weird. Nothing was easy, nor cheap, after
> that! :) Ric

Oh, Ric, how you are singing my song...  The BBS days were the best,
weren't they?  That and dialing into the campus modem pool so I could
telnet into the CS lab to compile/run some programs on the lab system,
surf the alt.binaries.* groups (what else was USENet for when you were
18 and in college?) heh...

I used to have a friend who had one of the biggest BBSs in my area
(around Roanoke) and I was always amazed at the amount of time and
money he invested in actually having 4 - 6 dedicated phone lines and a
fairly beefy (for the time) PC running WWIV...

Oh the countless hours I wasted playing Legend of the Red Dragon and
Drug Wars... heh...