On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:46:30AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: > While we're here, remember the BBS era? Telnet > BBSs are still around and can be accessed from DOS if you have a packet > driver for your NIC card. :End-Quote: <grins> Used to run WWIV BBS on the old 25 Meg hard drive so I didn't have to log in long distance and peruse the newsgroups. Only cost me an extra $5/month to transfer a compressed packet each day, and contained the entire day's messages. My first foray into networking and C Programming. The BBS sourcecode was available for $80, and mods were being published for it all the time. Had a blast until they switched over to the $600 Borland compiler, which I couldn't afford (and didn't see any reason in paying). Was still sighted back then and ran up a small fortune in long-distance charges downloading things like Commander Keen and DooM! demos. If I ever get phone access again, I plan on calling up the old BBS I was networked with (Maxie's Toy). I call the number on the cell every once in awhile and still get a carrier detect warble, though it might be a fax number now. Might be fun porting WWIV BBS to Linux, but the last time I looked, the author had started including object code in the source. Bugrit. Michael
