Greetings all!

Josh here, from Jackson, ME. I love to collect old Apple and Macintosh computers, and have recently gotten back into BBSing. I'm so excited
that there's still such an active community. I'm actually writing this
on my Mac SE which is "dialing up" through a WiModem232!

I've spent the last few days skimming through the board, reading messages
and lurking. It's brought back so many memories! My very first computer
at age 8, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III that my uncle rescued from
the dumpster of the high school where he worked, since we couldn't afford
a new computer back then. Taught myself to program in BASIC at the time!

Anyhoo, I am just so excited that the BBS community is still so active.
I had a Mac SE like this 20+ years ago when I was a teenager and used to
dial up the local BBSes on a 1200 baud modem.

Excited to take part in this board with you all!

Best wishes,
Josh Allen-Clark

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Josh Allen-Clark wrote to ALL <=-

Greetings all!

Josh here, from Jackson, ME. I love to collect old Apple and
Macintosh computers, and have recently gotten back into BBSing. I'm
so excited that there's still such an active community. I'm actually writing this on my Mac SE which is "dialing up" through a WiModem232!

I've spent the last few days skimming through the board, reading
messages and lurking. It's brought back so many memories! My very
first computer at age 8, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III that my
uncle rescued from the dumpster of the high school where he worked,
since we couldn't afford a new computer back then. Taught myself to program in BASIC at the time!

Anyhoo, I am just so excited that the BBS community is still so active.
I had a Mac SE like this 20+ years ago when I was a teenager and used
to dial up the local BBSes on a 1200 baud modem.

Excited to take part in this board with you all!

Welcome back!!


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Anyhoo, I am just so excited that the BBS community is still so active.
I had a Mac SE like this 20+ years ago when I was a teenager and used to
dial up the local BBSes on a 1200 baud modem.

Welcome back to BBSing. Hope you find it as enjoyable as you did back
then. The first machine I called a BBS on was a 8088 XT clone with a 2400
baud modem that was usually more reliable at 1200. That was also the first machine I ever hosted a BBS on. I still have that BBS online, but it is no longer on the XT.

Before that, I had (still do) a TI 99 4A. It never had a modem. :)

Mike


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On 02-06-20, Mike Powell wrote to JOSH ALLEN-CLARK:

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Welcome back to BBSing. Hope you find it as enjoyable as you did back
then. The first machine I called a BBS on was a 8088 XT clone with a 2400
baud modem that was usually more reliable at 1200. That was also the
first
machine I ever hosted a BBS on. I still have that BBS online, but it is
no
longer on the XT.

Before that, I had (still do) a TI 99 4A. It never had a modem. :) >-------------------------------------

So far I have found it very enjoyable. I'm honestly still so shocked,
and excited, at how many still are online! It really helps justify the
cost of the WiModem232 for the Mac. Other than using it for BBSing, I
set up a PPP server on my Raspberry Pi that the WiModem232 can dial up to,
to give the Mac a true Internet connection, but really, the BBSing part is more fun. :)

-Josh


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Josh Allen-Clark wrote to All <=-

I've spent the last few days skimming through the board, reading
messages and lurking. It's brought back so many memories! My very
first computer at age 8, was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III that my
uncle rescued from the dumpster of the high school where he worked,
since we couldn't afford a new computer back then. Taught myself to program in BASIC at the time!

My first real exposure to computers was my favorite teacher bringing his
TRS-80 Model III with dual floppy to school. He had written a math program
in BASIC to show some stuff to the class, but then let me hang out and pour through the disks and disks of stuff! That's where I heard about Scott
Adams and the text adventures!!!

Then when my friend got a Vic20 and two others got C-64's, I got a CoCo 2.
:-)



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Mike Powell wrote to Josh Allen-Clark <=-

Welcome back to BBSing. Hope you find it as enjoyable as you did back then. The first machine I called a BBS on was a 8088 XT clone with a
2400 baud modem that was usually more reliable at 1200. That was also
the first machine I ever hosted a BBS on. I still have that BBS
online, but it is no longer on the XT.

Very cool! My first BBS dialer was also an 8088 - monochrome monitor - dual floppy. Had a 14.4 in it and it was BLAZING fast! LOL But I had to slow it
to 9600 to upload. ;-)

I remember the fun of using DOS 3.3 to make a boot disk for downloading
and another for uploading. :-)




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Very cool! My first BBS dialer was also an 8088 - monochrome monitor - dual floppy. Had a 14.4 in it and it was BLAZING fast! LOL But I had to slow it
to 9600 to upload. ;-)

I remember the fun of using DOS 3.3 to make a boot disk for downloading
and another for uploading. :-)

Mine came with a 30MB HD... that seemed so large back then... but only had
a 2400 modem in it. I eventually tried to upgrade the serial card so that
it would support a 14.4k external but that never really worked.

It also came with DOS 3.3. :)


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On 02-09-20, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Josh Allen-Clark:

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My first real exposure to computers was my favorite teacher bringing his
TRS-80 Model III with dual floppy to school. He had written a math program
in BASIC to show some stuff to the class, but then let me hang out and
pour
through the disks and disks of stuff! That's where I heard about Scott
Adams and the text adventures!!!

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My uncle swiped my Trash-80 M3 from the dumpster of the high school where
he worked at the time, which I attended around 10 years later. My senior year, I took a class they called Tech Group. We basically were the unofficial IT department of the high school under the tutelage of the district's technology coordinator. One of our first tasks was to clean
out and organize a storage area for us to use. Buried wayyyyyy in the
back was one last Trash-80 that somehow missed the dumpster all of those
years ago. My classmates had never seen one, but I instantly was like "I
had one of these when I was a kid!". I can't remember now if there were
any disks with it... I do remember I booted it up and threw together a
quick little program in BASIC to demo some things that I remembered. I
asked if I could take it home but was told I couldn't because it was still "district property" and I'm sure it ended up in eWaste somewhere... what a shame.

-Josh


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Mike Powell wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Very cool! My first BBS dialer was also an 8088 - monochrome monitor - dual floppy. Had a 14.4 in it and it was BLAZING fast! LOL But I had to slow it to 9600 to upload. ;-)

I remember the fun of using DOS 3.3 to make a boot disk for downloading
and another for uploading. :-)

Mine came with a 30MB HD... that seemed so large back then... but only
had a 2400 modem in it. I eventually tried to upgrade the serial card
so that it would support a 14.4k external but that never really worked.

It also came with DOS 3.3. :)

Mine was a hand me down from my sister. Didn't have a modem at all until
I put in that 14.4 - and it was an INTERNAL! :-)




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Josh Allen-Clark wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

My uncle swiped my Trash-80 M3 from the dumpster of the high school
where he worked at the time, which I attended around 10 years later.

That's cool!

My senior year, I took a class they called Tech Group. We basically
were the unofficial IT department of the high school under the tutelage
of the district's technology coordinator. One of our first tasks was

And now I am the district tech coordinator - LOL

I couldn't because it was still "district property" and I'm sure it
ended up in eWaste somewhere... what a shame.

That is a shame. :-(




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Anyhoo, I am just so excited that the BBS community is still so active.
I had a Mac SE like this 20+ years ago when I was a teenager and used to dial up the local BBSes on a 1200 baud modem.

Excited to take part in this board with you all!

Lovely. It's nice to have some places to login, for sure.

I started BBSing on the Apple IIe in 1986 at 1200 baud and stopped when I got dial-up PPP around 1994. I've been spending a lot of time on telnet BBS' in
the past couple of years though, and it's a great way to put vintage
computers to use (I have a number of them setup for use : http://is.gd/Evgcl1 ).

I setup a page on my blog that is a kind-of guide for people wanting to give BBSing a shot (hopefully) and also links to some of the BBS adventures that I've documented online : https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

Good to see you, and enjoy!

bp

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On 3/4/2020 3:35 PM, between "Blake Patterson : Josh Allen-Clark":

spending a lot of time on telnet BBS' in the past couple of
years though, and it's a great way to put vintage
computers to use (I have a number of them setup for
use : http://is.gd/Evgcl1).

Hello Blake,

A whole room dedicated for this.. amazing. Well organized. Impressive.

I setup a page on my blog that is a kind-of guide for people
wanting to give BBSing a shot (hopefully) and also links to
some of the BBS adventures that
I've documented online : https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

Your photo collection is amazing. It is quite an extensive chronicle of your collection and activities.

I really liked the Ipad w/keyboard and the screenshot of Black Flag BBS:

"fidoNet is alive, even if you say no."



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On 09 Mar 2020, August Abolins said the following...

use : http://is.gd/Evgcl1).

Hello Blake,
A whole room dedicated for this.. amazing. Well organized. Impressive.

some of the BBS adventures that
I've documented online : https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

Your photo collection is amazing. It is quite an extensive chronicle of your collection and activities.

Many thanks, August. It is fun to put the vintage systems through their
paces. I find BBSing on them is an excellent way to get sometime on various different machines. I am currently logged in on my Amiga 2000 '020 runnning Term 4.8. Ethernet on this machine and the '020 make it a pretty great BBS driver.

Latest is I'm trying to get a CoCo 3 online. I have a 512K unit and a modern MPI that has 2 slots, but for some reason the RS-232 cart is not being seen
my the terminal program (Twilight Term). Will get it eventually... :-)

bp

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Re: Hello!
By: Blake Patterson to Josh Allen-Clark on Wed Mar 04 2020 03:35 pm

Anyhoo, I am just so excited that the BBS community is still so active. I had a Mac SE like this 20+ years ago when I was a teenager and used t dial up the local BBSes on a 1200 baud modem.

Excited to take part in this board with you all!

Lovely. It's nice to have some places to login, for sure.

I started BBSing on the Apple IIe in 1986 at 1200 baud and stopped when I go dial-up PPP around 1994. I've been spending a lot of time on telnet BBS' in the past couple of years though, and it's a great way to put vintage computers to use (I have a number of them setup for use : http://is.gd/Evgcl ).

I setup a page on my blog that is a kind-of guide for people wanting to give BBSing a shot (hopefully) and also links to some of the BBS adventures that I've documented online : https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

Good to see you, and enjoy!

bp

This is an amazing photo collection. I definitely want to spend some time browsing through it.

Mike Knapp
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