Hi there everyone! I∩m new to this whole BBS thing, I just got my PC/XT connected to the net and decided to give this a try. I∩ve been looking at some of the artwork in here and it∩s wonderful! I∩m looking forward to being a part of this community.

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to All on Tue Apr 24 2018 04:29 pm

Hi there everyone! I∩m new to this whole BBS thing, I just got my PC/XT connected to the net and decided to give this a try. I∩ve been looking at some of the artwork in here and it∩s wonderful! I∩m looking forward to being a part of this community.

Welcome! I've been changing up some parts of the BBS in recent months, including the logon menu and the intro screens.

The Jaylah screen was drawn by Whazzit of Blocktronics as a surprise for me. I was really pleased to add it!

Anyway, hope you enjoy the board. What neck of the woods are you visiting from?

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Kirkman to Ittfami on Tue Apr 24 2018 04:44 pm

Anyway, hope you enjoy the board. What neck of the woods are you visiting from?

I'm visiting from Madrid, right in the middle of Spain!
Gotta give credit to TCP/IP-- I can't even imagine how much it would cost to dial in all the way from here back in the day.

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to All on Tue Apr 24 2018 04:29 pm

Hi there everyone! I∩m new to this whole BBS thing, I just got my PC/XT connected to the net and decided to give this a try. I∩ve been looking at

PC/XT -- is that running at 4.77mhz?

Welcome to the world of BBSing - chances are, depending on your age, you never even heard the term BBS until now. Just suffice it to say we're like the Internet - only more community oriented, and a hell of a lot more fun!
Welcome!


■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Ittfami on Tue Apr 24 2018 06:20 pm

PC/XT -- is that running at 4.77mhz?

Nope. At some point, possibly way before I ever got it, it had its board swapped for a Turbo board with a V20 running at a whopping 8MHz! Granted, it lost its legitness as an original XT... But it does improve the computing experience quite a bit.

Welcome to the world of BBSing - chances are, depending on your age, you never even heard the term BBS until now.

Thank you! I was born in '97, so if it weren't for some *Ahem* Image Boards I frequent on the Internet I wouldn't even have heard about BBSes. I guess they have inherited some culture from these places and so have I, so I'm a bit familiar with the concept.

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to Kirkman on Tue Apr 24 2018 05:57 pm

I'm visiting from Madrid, right in the middle of Spain!
Gotta give credit to TCP/IP-- I can't even imagine how much it would cost to dial in all the way from here back in the day.

Wow, great to have you here. Are you the guy behind "ilovethetwinfamicom" on YouTube? If so, looks like you've got a pretty awesome collection of retro stuff.

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Kirkman to Ittfami on Wed Apr 25 2018 09:56 am

Wow, great to have you here. Are you the guy behind "ilovethetwinfamicom" on YouTube? If so, looks like you've got a pretty awesome collection of retro stuff.

Why yes, I am! Darn, you people caught me red handed quite quickly.

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to Dmxrob on Tue Apr 24 2018 06:36 pm

Nope. At some point, possibly way before I ever got it, it had its board swapped for a Turbo board with a V20 running at a whopping 8MHz! Granted, it lost its legitness as an original XT... But it does improve the computing experience quite a bit.

You have what us old farts call a AT system then. You probably have the 286 chip in there I would reckon.

Thank you! I was born in '97, so if it weren't for some *Ahem* Image Boards I frequent on the Internet I wouldn't even have heard about BBSes. I guess

It seems BBSing is really coming back into the mainstream. I think it goes along with Retro Computing, but also a part of it I think has to do with the fact that people are tiring of the cold, impersonal, ad-laden, privacy stealing Internet. BBSes were communities back in the day, and people go to know one another. It's exciting to see the BBS scene come alive once again - and I hope this is a long-term trend!

Welcome aboard - and I hope you enjoy the journey and adventure!


■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to Kirkman on Wed Apr 25 2018 12:45 pm

Wow, great to have you here. Are you the guy behind "ilovethetwinfamicom" on YouTube? If so, looks like you've got a pretty awesome collection of retro stuff.

Why yes, I am! Darn, you people caught me red handed quite quickly.

You will find us BBSers are pretty good at getting to know people ;-)


■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Ittfami on Wed Apr 25 2018 05:55 pm

the fact that people are tiring of the cold, impersonal, ad-laden, privacy stealing Internet. BBSes were communities back in the day, and people go to know one another. It's exciting to see the BBS scene come alive once again - and I hope this is a long-term trend!

I agree, although BBSes were no strangers to spam. Heck, I spent lots of time making and posting ANSI advertisements for different boards I called or cosysoped. :)

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Kirkman to Dmxrob on Wed Apr 25 2018 08:36 pm

I agree, although BBSes were no strangers to spam. Heck, I spent lots of time making and posting ANSI advertisements for different boards I called or cosysoped. :)

I think there is a big difference in BBS "spam" and the constant spam we are subjected to on things like Facebook, etc. In the BBS world, if you are indeed spamming, the community could take care of it. You'd find yourself kicked off of boards, or your privs reduced considerably. Advertisements, we tolerated those in certain areas, and that is/was part of the scene - but I cringe everytime I get on Facebook (which isn't that often anymore) because its a constant feed of spam, crap and junk. You can unfriend and mute everyone on your list and still get bombarded with that.


■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Ittfami on Wed Apr 25 2018 05:55 pm

You have what us old farts call a AT system then. You probably have the 286 chip in there I would reckon.

Nope, it's an IBM 5160 with a generic turbo board and an NEC V20 (Which lacks a lot of 286 instructions) swapped in. So technically it's still an XT-class machine.

Welcome aboard - and I hope you enjoy the journey and adventure!

Thank you! It seems like this is the complete opposite of the Internet when it comes to joining a community.

By the way, is there a way to quote multiple messages?

Re: Hi there!
By: Ittfami to Dmxrob on Thu Apr 26 2018 04:42 pm

Welcome aboard - and I hope you enjoy the journey and adventure!

Thank you! It seems like this is the complete opposite of the Internet when it comes to joining a community.

Yes, BBSing is more a community - and each "board" has its own type of community. Sure, we still disagree now and then, and we get our occassional bad egg -- but it's nothing like the Internet as a whole. Bad actors are weeded out, and we debate instead of name call. It's what an online "community" was supposed to be (and once was).

By the way, is there a way to quote multiple messages?

No, each message is its own entity and the quote feature only works for the message you are replying too.



■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Kirkman on Thu Apr 26 2018 07:30 am

I think there is a big difference in BBS "spam" and the constant spam we are subjected to on things like Facebook, etc. In the BBS world, if you are indeed spamming, the community could take care of it. You'd find yourself kicked off of boards, or your privs reduced considerably.

Certainly the smallness of the community lent itself to that sort of policing. But it is true that as long as we've had public forums of any sort, there have been people who abuse it, whether by advertising, or by harassment, etc.

I think back to my early experiences with Usenet in the mid-90s. Even at that point, bot-generated spam was well established in unmoderated newsgroups.

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Ittfami on Fri Apr 27 2018 08:07 am

Yes, BBSing is more a community - and each "board" has its own type of community.

You are exactly right.

This morning I was visiting another BBS and I came across a message you wrote there about Vans. If I remember right, you said you still wear Vans you got in 1991 at a BBS meetup. That blew me away! Do you just save them for special occasions?

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Kirkman to Dmxrob on Tue May 15 2018 04:58 pm

This morning I was visiting another BBS and I came across a message you wrote there about Vans. If I remember right, you said you still wear Vans you got in 1991 at a BBS meetup. That blew me away! Do you just save them for special occasions?

Yep! It was my first pair of Vans chex (the black and white chex) and nowadays they are WELL WORN, but every now and then I break them out. I have a much newer pair (because, lets be honest, once a Vans guy, always a Vans guy) that I wear day-to-day.

My 44-year old self looking back and reflecting now, the #1 lesson I have learned in life: "Don't give a damn what other people think of you -- be you!" Wear those Vans, skate until you are 70, shop at American Eagle until you retire if that makes you happy. It has worked for me!

-Rob

■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988

Re: Hi there!
By: Dmxrob to Kirkman on Tue May 15 2018 07:15 pm

Yep! It was my first pair of Vans chex (the black and white chex) and nowadays they are WELL WORN, but every now and then I break them out. I have a much newer pair (because, lets be honest, once a Vans guy, always a Vans guy) that I wear day-to-day.

I will confess to not really knowing much about them, except for this Five Iron Frenzy lyric from the song "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys":

I'm twenty-nine years old
Still wearing the wallet chain
Like I was twenty-eight
I'm wearing my vans right now
So high school kids
Will think that I can skate
I've got a degree in science
Yet shaking my fists in defiance

Anyway, I'm not cliche
I hardly own any ties
I may be old
But at least I'm not like all those other old guys

--Josh

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Re: Hi there!
By: Kirkman to Dmxrob on Tue May 15 2018 10:40 pm

I'm wearing my vans right now
So high school kids
Will think that I can skate
I've got a degree in science
Yet shaking my fists in defiance

That about sums me up to a tee ;-)

-Rob

■dmxrob■ BBSing from St. Louis, MO since 1988