Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
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Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#2It was my neighbour and his C64 that got me into BBSs back in the 80s, and even when I finally got a modem for my Atari ST I was somewhat jealous of the unique characteristics of the C64 BBS community. The PETSCII graphics + colour aspects of those BBSs were really nice. I don't see any of that in this video, but there was some really fantastic artwork in the C64 BBS community.
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#3We wound up with a whole second set of Commodore equipment in the late '80s when my dad's business partner gave up on trying to organize his side of the business like my dad. It was a free upgrade from C64 to 128, one disk drive to two and we got a modem out of the deal. I suppose it was discovering random strangers on a phone line could be friendly and interesting that makes me sad about what the Internet has not become so far.
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#4We wound up with a whole second set of Commodore equipment in the late '80s when my dad's business partner gave up on trying to organize his side of the business like my dad. It was a free upgrade from C64 to 128, one disk drive to two and we got a modem out of the deal. I suppose it was discovering random strangers on a phone line could be friendly and interesting that makes me sad about what the Internet has not be…
I feel that the Internet used to be that way, back in the 90's. Many early ISP's grew out of the BBS scene.
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#5We wound up with a whole second set of Commodore equipment in the late '80s when my dad's business partner gave up on trying to organize his side of the business like my dad. It was a free upgrade from C64 to 128, one disk drive to two and we got a modem out of the deal. I suppose it was discovering random strangers on a phone line could be friendly and interesting that makes me sad about what the Internet has not be…
I feel that the Internet used to be that way, back in the 90's. Many early ISP's grew out of the BBS scene.
I think USA was pretty unique with free local calls and hence why the scene took off big there. In the UK* we used to have to wait till 6pm for the price to drop from 5p a minute to 1p so internet usage and BBS prior was pretty constrained - the fear of 0345 usage on the bill was a constant fear that shareware mail order lasted into late 1990s. Broadband was also way behind, I think it was 2002 before we got 512kbit. (* there were pockets like Hull that was an exception I believe).
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#6When I was 8 or 9 my dad bought both a Vic-20 and a Commodore 64. The fun I had writing in basic. It used to consume my weekends. I would actually get up early (5am) to start my projects.
When I was older I ran a BBS (not on a C64) with 2400 baud modems, then 14.4 baud modems when MacMall was having a sale on them for only $89 each. I learned so much about programming as I extended my BBS's functionality. I think I still have my notes from my work still.
Had I realized it back then I probably had invented Reddit :-)
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel that the Internet used to be that way, back in the 90's. Many early ISP's grew out of the BBS scene.
I think USA was pretty unique with free local calls and hence why the scene took off big there. In the UK* we used to have to wait till 6pm for the price to drop from 5p a minute to 1p so internet usage and BBS prior was pretty constrained - the fear of 0345 usage on the bill was a constant fear that shareware mail order lasted into late 1990s. Broadband was also way behind, I think it was 2002 before we got 512kbit.…
Yep, free calls were awesome. I used to spend literally all afternoon to early evening tying up a second phone line!
Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#8This documentary on BBSs is well worth the time:
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Re: Borderline BBS: A Commodore 64 dial-up BBS (2014) [video]
#10This documentary on BBSs is well worth the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
now THIS comment and link made MORE sense as a topic that's on TOP of hacker news than a cute video of a guy calling an old BBS.
That documentary is AMAZING in shedding light into ALL the BBS world we all knew