Hello Everyone.
This is my first time using a BBS service.
A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing
cience proffession,
I love working with old computers and Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and collect old video game consoles and have almost every one. :)

Welcome to BBSing. I first started using BBSes when I was a senior in HS
and eventually got into IT as a profession. Back then, a computer club at one of the local high schools even ran their own BBS.


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Re: Im New
By: Lucas Macdonald to All on Wed Jan 03 2024 12:00 am

This is my first time using a BBS service. A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing science proffession, I love working with old computers and Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and I collect old video game consoles and have almost every one. :)

Welcome!
I always thought BBSes were interesting and fun to use, and I still enjoy running one.

Nightfox

Re: Im New
By: Lucas Macdonald to All on Wed Jan 03 2024 12:00 am

Hello Everyone.
This is my first time using a BBS service.
A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing science proffession,
I love working with old computers and Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and I collect old video game consoles and have almost every one. :)

Welcome Lucas! Windows XP (or what I sometimes call Windows NT 5.1) was a major success for Microsoft, for sure. An important OS in the history of Windows.
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Re: Im New
By: Lucas Macdonald to All on Wed Jan 03 2024 12:00 am

I love working with old computers and Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP )

Hi Lucas! Windows XP introduced the Windows Preinstallation environment which could USB boot a small copy of Windows similar to Linux live. It was also one of my favorites.

Welcome to BBSing.

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8



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Nopants wrote to Lucas Macdonald <=-

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

Hey! I've used that key before!


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Lucas Macdonald wrote to All <=-

@VIA: VERT
Hello Everyone.
This is my first time using a BBS service.
A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing science proffession, I love working with old computers and
Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and I collect old video game
consoles and have almost every one. :) ---

COOL! Welcome to the world of BBS's.


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Re: Im New
By: Dumas Walker to LUCAS MACDONALD on Wed Jan 03 2024 09:15 am

Welcome to BBSing. I first started using BBSes when I was a senior in HS and eventually got into IT as a profession. Back then, a computer club at one of the local high schools even ran their own BBS.

I started running my BBS when I was 29... but that was in 1984. It's still running...

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Bf2k+ wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

I started running my BBS when I was 29... but that was in 1984. It's
still running...

26, here. I had a close group of friends all the same age or a little
younger on the BBSes, and we talked about first jobs, first apartments,
first breakups, first realization that there was more to life than
school and what we knew.

I wish I'd saved the messages from back then. I'd like to get to know
that kid again.


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Re: Re: Im New
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bf2k+ on Fri Jan 05 2024 06:27 am

I wish I'd saved the messages from back then. I'd like to get to know
that kid again.

Hah, this reminded me of the lyrics in Scooter's Nessaja tune.. https://youtu.be/ru7x9oivrwE

just the pitched up voice part :)

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I wish I'd saved the messages from back then. I'd like to get to know
that kid again.

I have my homebrew software and data disk for my C64 BBS I wrote as a
teenager. I think 13-15.... at 15 I discovered girls and stopped coding
for a few years while I pursued them. ;)

Having said that I highly doubt the floppy is still good, and I'd have to
see if any of the 64's in my closet will run. It's on my long list of
things I want to get to.

|09S|11hawn


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Re: Re: Im New
By: Tiny to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 06 2024 07:58 am

I have my homebrew software and data disk for my C64 BBS I wrote as a teenager. I think 13-15.... at 15 I discovered girls and stopped coding
for a few years while I pursued them. ;)

Having said that I highly doubt the floppy is still good, and I'd have to see if any of the 64's in my closet will run. It's on my long list of things I want to get to.

I bought a zoom floppy a while back basically you plug a 1541 into a USB and it becomes a drive. I backed up all my work and floppies. The sooner you do it the better because magnetic media isn't forever.

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I wish I'd saved the messages from back then. I'd like to get to know
that kid again.

Oh.. trust me, you don't. I once found some of my old uSENET posts from the 90s (thank you Google, you fuckers!) and also some of the articles I published in old demoscene disk magazines.

The only benefit I had from that is that I was more eager to forgive all the stupidness and lack of eloquence and other irrational nonsense when I heard my own 18-21 son communicating.

Other than that.. yeah... my right then to think and communicate the way I did... it's just embarrassing to realize the beginnings of that long journey continually moving on, since.

-h1

... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

I bought a zoom floppy a while back basically you plug a 1541 into a
USB and it becomes a drive. I backed up all my work and floppies. The
sooner you do it the better because magnetic media isn't forever.

That sounds handy! I'll look into that.

|09S|11hawn


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hollowone wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I wish I'd saved the messages from back then. I'd like to get to know
that kid again.

Oh.. trust me, you don't. I once found some of my old uSENET posts from the 90s (thank you Google, you fuckers!) and also some of the articles
I published in old demoscene disk magazines.

I did find an old .PST file from a company I worked at from 1997-1999.
For some reason, I thought composing HTML email using OCR A fonts was
"edgy".



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Lucas Macdonald wrote to All <=-

Hello Everyone.
This is my first time using a BBS service.
A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing science proffession, I love working with old computers and
Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and I collect old video game
consoles and have almost every one. :)

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Welcome to the show that never ends Lucas! I started my first BBS in 1986, running on a C64 and a single 1541 disk drive (a whoppping 170K of storage). Worked my way up to Synchronet and consider it to be one of the finest BBS programs out there. Very well supported both by the developer and user base!

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Quoting Lucas Macdonald to All <=-

Hello Everyone.
This is my first time using a BBS service.
A little about me, Im currently in high school and am going into the computing science proffession, I love working with old computers and
Os's ( My favourite is Windows XP ) and I collect old video game
consoles and have almost every one. :)

Welcome! It is great to see new people connecting to the BBS. I also am pleased to see your interest in old computers and operating systems.
They can be fun! :-)

~Elf

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http://lifeseven.com/1990s


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