Comments on: The Dial-Up BBS Revisited

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Retrocosm

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:20:15 +0000

I recently launched a new dial up only BBS just for fun and because I have a load of old retro machines that I wanted to try and connect via dial up. It's UK based, you can find the details at retrocosm.net.

Very nice post BTW.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Avtex

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:06:46 +0000

wow I havent thought about BBS in a long, long time. Many a saturday night I would spend hours waiting for the dail up to kick in, or showing off to my buddies when I found a new board. Thanks for the article, I think this weekend I may try and find some of the old boards I used to haunt.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Richard Otten

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:17:24 +0000

I was just on the BBS: 209-845-2641 Citadel 64

It's been years since I've grabbed a modem and dialed in. I"ve long ago forgotten the commands so I'm looking them up and going to go back on in the near future and enjoy the slower pace of text only BBSing.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Benj Edwards

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:40:20 +0000

Joel, you can still connect to BBSes in a very similar way through the Internet via the Telnet protocol. Find a good telnet client (XP and OS X have basic ones built in) and point it to cavebbs.homeip.net port 23. Or click on this link and see if it brings up a telnet client automatically.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Joel

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:59:25 +0000

Has there ever been an idea for a "Virtual BBS"? Since modems and dial up lines are declining? I mean like a BBS you can Log-In to with you regular internet service (Cable Modem,DSL) that has the look and feel of the old BBS but you just "Log-In" and browse.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Cheap Nintendo Wii Freak

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:14:11 +0000

I'll go with the Eric 1 and Eric versions as well ..Nice and informative post btw.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: TurtleWax

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:23:42 +0000

I used to run MontanaBBS. It began in '89 in Oakland,CA and then moved to Denver in '90 and Harrisburg,SD in 99 where it was entombed to a 3 1/2″ floppy due to cost of a 2nd line and only getting 10-20 calls per month.

I plan to revive it on telnet sometime this summer and have been testing a syncro.net bbs on my network. Still working on securing it before going live.
Turtlewax, MontanaBBS 89-99 was a good run…

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Bart

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:29:18 +0000

I used to dial in to some bbs with my old mac IIsi with 5mb of ram and an 80 mb hard drive. I think it was at 2400 bps. After watching War Games it seem like you could dial into the pentagon pretty easy.

The modem was something you could do to get different content on your computer without buying anything, so it was pretty cool. I also remember accessing some bbs through was it netscape? you could also search them…

I was never a full fledged nerd but more of a dabbler.
I also could do file transfers with Zterm…

anyway it was cool to do
thanks for the post!

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Duncan

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:19:37 +0000

Hey I was wondering the same thing (as I live in Australia) and have voip now with free untimed for local and national, never connected to BBS but have a few c64′s etc and have always wanted to connect to the "net". Never had a modem when I was growing up and would like to get one working at some stage.

Seems like the censorship thing is going to be unavoidable, big government is "in" and they are going to do their best to turn the internet into a one way streaming TV station.

Comment on The Dial-Up BBS Revisited by: Tabitha Pearson

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:47:12 +0000

Hi All - I am a former co-sysop of the WWIV-based Mill BBS, (aka Kitten, sysOp was The Almighty Glands). Just wanted to let you all know I have a new facebook group "People who miss the BBS days" as a forum to post BBS-style threads that you don't want your wall cluttered with, but can't resist making! Also wondering if anyone knows if doors can be set up onh facebook to play all our crazy old BBS games. Glands was particularly fond of TradeWars and wrote several ships and patches way back in the day…