and first Motorola industrial 28.8k modems would cost UD$1000... I was lucky
to be able to borrow one for free because we accidentaly bought one too many
for a project. :-)
On 18 August 2011 23:53, Scott Morris <swm_at_emanon.com> wrote:
> Wildcat was nice and colorful. PCBoard could be customized quite a bit
> too.... I used to run Celerity (small-known but colorful like Wildcat)
> until the BBS got too bit, then moved to PCBoard. :)
>
> Ahhhhh... The Good Old Days. Back when US Robotics was an AWESOME
> company!
>
>
>
>
> *Scott Morris*, CCIE/x4/ (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713,
>
> CCDE #2009::D, CCNP-Voice, JNCIE-SP #153, JNCIE-ER #102, CISSP, et al.
>
> CCSI #21903, JNCI-SP, JNCI-ER
>
> swm_at_emanon.com
>
>
> Knowledge is power.
>
> Power corrupts.
>
> Study hard and be Eeeeviiiil......
>
>
> On 8/18/11 12:06 AM, Travis Niedens wrote:
> > I remember all of those. I ran TriBBS with Fido and several doors and
> even had my fido app kick off a batch file to wake me in the morning with
> Bohemian Rhapsody off my soundblaster card. One fateful weekend I converted
> my PC and my foster parent's to OS2 Warp... needless to say I had to convert
> back quickly for them. I remember RIP and color ANSI graphics. I was always
> jealous of the BBSes that used WildCat. In the user's group I was in I wrote
> an article about the internet being the death of the BBS - circa 1995/1996.
> Needless to say, I was right.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Marko Milivojevic
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:44 PM
> > To: Dale Shaw
> > Cc: Alexei Monastyrnyi; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Re: CCIE # 30000
> >
> > Oh man - the magic words have been uttered... TELEMATE! I still miss
> scripting so capable as that thing had. What an awesome piece of software!
> >
> > --
> > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427
> > Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert
> >
> > FREE CCIE training: http://bit.ly/vLecture
> >
> > Mailto: markom_at_ipexpert.com
> > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444
> > Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 23:21, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ahh, those were the days.
> >>
> >> X00/SIO (OS/2), FrontDoor/Intermail, RemoteAccess, Desqview/Desqview
> >> X, QEMM, NetWare nodes, crazy batch files, squeezing out the last byte
> >> of memory through CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT tweaks, doors, ANSI
> >> menus/art (TheDraw/ACiDDraw), RIP graphics (who used that?), Zmodem
> >> hacks with games (good for 2400 baud), Telemate/Telix etc.,
> >> FILE_ID.DIZ, Ctrl-H (?) to introduce fake line noise for
> >> annoying/unwanted users, LoRD/Usurper/BRE, ARJ, netmail (Fidonet
> >> etc.), differentiating between v.FC and v.34 inbound calls based on
> >> the sound, using up all the copper in my street, sleepless nights, ...
> >> the death of BBSs and the birth of commonly available Internet access.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <
> alexeim73_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> and all those FIDOnet point to boss relationships :-) The GoldEd
> >>> world...
> >>>
> >>> On 18 August 2011 13:32, Travis Niedens <niedentj_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Fossil was an old BBS transfer protocol back when it was all dialup...
> >>
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