i dont want to remember those days
i dont want to remember those days
Bulletin Board System ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system ). I remember it well from back in the 80's, when most people here in Norway didn't have private internet connections, and I bought packs of 10 floppies (sold by a local company), crammed with all kinds of DOS utilities & games which were collected from different BBS sites. Most of them were ASCII based, but there were also a few CGA (or maybe VGA - can't remember) graphics utilities...
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I just remember downloading my first chick pic - a jpg that took a least 15 or 20 minutes. It looked similar to the pic below though this one is a little exaggerated (altered with pShop) but pretty close...LOL The first BBS I was familiar with - where mainly someones computer somewhere in the neighborhood, with BBS software in it...you'd dial their number and get that famous tone then the staticy connection sound...Oh them were the dayzzz.
the days ? the days were when you had to punch your programs in using rolls of punched paper tape on an offline teletype machine (so you didn't waste the online network time using the screaming 300 baud modem.) Displays were teletype print onto paper, not a monitor, so input and output was as fast as the teletype (50 or 60 words per minute ?).
Duder, duder, duder...teletype smelltype..back in my day we had nothing but a slate and a stone tied on the end of a stick. We'd spend long hours banging the crap out of the slate with the hammers...code stuff, you know like dot-dot-ditty-ditty...and then we'd have the wives carry them off to the neighbors so they could read the message we hammered out on the slate. Most of the messages just read, "Hey Chuck, can I borrow your lawn mower" or something like that. It was the most modern form of e-mail around. Geezus and you guys think you had it ruff.
Originally Posted by Charger
Duder, duder, duder...teletype smelltype..back in my day we had nothing but a slate and a stone tied on the end of a stick. We'd spend long hours banging the crap out of the slate with the hammers...code stuff, you know like dot-dot-ditty-ditty...and then we'd have the wives carry them off to the neighbors so they could read the message we hammered out on the slate. Most of the messages just read, "Hey Chuck, can I borrow your lawn mower" or something like that. It was the most modern form of e-mail around. Geezus and you guys think you had it ruff.
I'm older than you - so you're FOS.. and spamming as usual.
The 8086 arrived the year I graduated from high school. It was the last year a phone sat in the 'cradle' to communicate across the telephone lines to the 'mainframe' in Raleigh.
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