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Wintermute_BBS<p>Happy BBSday !!</p><p>On this day today in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess took the world's first bulletin board system (the "CBBS") officially online.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBSDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBSDay</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/CBBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBBS</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/WardChristensen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WardChristensen</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RandySuess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandySuess</span></a> <br><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a></p>
Rick T-137<p>Here's an updated picture of my Commodore VIC-20 running my bulletin board system (DeepSkies BBS). </p><p>In the back of the VIC is a VIC-1011A RS-232 card that connects the VIC via a null modem cable to a Mac mini that's in behind the VIC (on the right). The Mac is running tcpser that connects the VIC to the Internet. </p><p>There's also an SD2IEC drive plugged into the datasette port with a 32GB micro SD card in it that holds all the files for the BBS.</p><p>In the cartridge port is a VIC-2407 cartridge that supplies the VIC with 35KB of RAM expansion and a real time clock chip. The VIC also has a JiffyDOS ROM in it, and I added a toggle switch to the back so I can turn it off and use the stock ROM when I want (for compatibility with some stuff). </p><p>The VIC-2407 is a bespoke cartridge made for me by JaystoniansRetroShop on Etsy! He is fantastic to work with!</p><p>Over to the left, you can see my Ray Carlsen power supply with cold-war spec toggle switch that goes "KA-CHUNK!" when you flip it. It's awesome! </p><p>You can fire up your VIC-20 and dial into my BBS 24hrs a day, 7 days a week:</p><p>bbs.deepskies.com:6400</p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Modem</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Telnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Telnet</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/JiffyDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JiffyDOS</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIC20</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/CommodoreVIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommodoreVIC20</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/tcpser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tcpser</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Rick T-137<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hostux.social/@lfa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lfa</span></a></span> For anyone curious, here's a link to the information page regarding my BBS including the address to log in to it:</p><p><a href="https://deepskies.com/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">deepskies.com/bbs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIC20</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Modem</span></a></p>
Rick T-137<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hostux.social/@lfa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lfa</span></a></span> I run a bulletin board system on my Commodore VIC-20! 😍 </p><p><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/VIC20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VIC20</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Modem</span></a></p>
Blake Patterson<p>I have updated my BBSing resource page, for anyone with a hankerin' to "dial in" once again.</p><p><a href="https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bytecellar.com/bbsing/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BBSing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBSing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/telnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telnet</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/client" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>client</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modem</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/AT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AT</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputers</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/vintagetech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagetech</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/screenshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>screenshot</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/SyncTerm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SyncTerm</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MuffinTerm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuffinTerm</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ByteCellar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ByteCellar</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>On Friday, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/WardChristensen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WardChristensen</span></a>, co-inventor of the computer <a href="https://noc.social/tags/BulletinBoardSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinBoardSystem</span></a> (<a href="https://noc.social/tags/BBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBS</span></a>), died at age 78 in <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RollingMeadows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RollingMeadows</span></a>, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Illinois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illinois</span></a>. Christensen, along with <a href="https://noc.social/tags/RandySuess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandySuess</span></a>, created the first BBS in <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of <a href="https://noc.social/tags/DigitalCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCommunity</span></a>-building that presaged much of our online world today.</p><p>Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/?comments-page=1#comments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">0/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/?comments-page=1#comments</span></a></p>
cstine<p><span>While I wait on FTN applications to be approved for my Telegard </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/BBS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBS</a><span>, I've moved on to some more uh, unique? options that existed.<br><br>Excalibur BBS was a very late entry into BBS software, but it's main claim to fame is that it was a fully GUI-based software. Basically, it was sold as a run-your-own-AOL type proposition.<br><br>It was unique, neat, and horribly expensive and saw limited use.<br><br>It also has a major problem of requiring a proprietary client to do anything, which is, of course, a 16-bit app and not really usable on modern systems.<br><br>But VMs exist, and you can run it: Using NT4 for the server and XP for the client you get this lovely chunk of </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bulletinboardsystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a><span> history.</span></p>
cstine<p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/@vga256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vga256@dialup.cafe</a><span> Yeah, I rapidly ran into the 'this hardware will absolutely not survive being used 24/7' problem.<br><br>PSU failures, a couple of various chip failures (IDK what it is, but I go through a shocking amount of video cards), and the occasional instability that later gets tracked down to a bad capacitor, or voltage regulator.<br><br>You CAN replace all of these parts and everything works fine until the next failure, but man, I'm not sure I'd use old hardware for 24/7 use at this point, unless the goal was to document what and how it fails.<br><br>It's also a hard sale when you can get a $50 miniPC off AliExpress and use it to either run old stuff directly OR run old stuff in a VM, and then you get the authentic-ness AND modern hardware's stability.<br><br>And yes, I know people would argue that a VM isn't authentic, but after spending yesterday yelling at my ArcaOS VM to stop being stupid and just run the stupid DOS doors it certainly feels authentic. </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bulletinboardsystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a></p>
cstine<p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/@vga256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vga256@dialup.cafe</a><span> went with telegard/2 since that's what I used to run. Its under arcaos which helps with the modernization a lot but its still kinda janky and far less capable and bare-bones than I remembered. <br> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bulletinboardsystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a></p>
cstine<p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/@vga256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vga256@dialup.cafe</a><span> that's the goal, heh. The BBS I wish I ran in the 90s but could never have afforded. Only a year into it and almost about to begin to be like uh half done. </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bulletinboardsystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a></p>
cstine<p><span>I did not spend the whole day setting up door games on my </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a><span>, oh my no that's certainly not what happened. </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bbs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bbs</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/bulletinboardsystem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bulletinboardsystem</a><span> </span><a href="https://slightly.uncomfortable.business/tags/re" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#re</a></p>
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