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Happy days . Obviously you wouldn't have a web browser, so you'd load a program like Qmodem or Procomm to dial up your BBS of choice, at a massive 2400baud or so, set the parity, data bits, stop bits and if it supported ANSI you would even get different coloured characters and some block graphics.
Related to the modem noises, I once convinced a workmate that my Dad could whistle a picture of a boat to a fax machine.
Where's his User name?
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Luxury. I started at 300bps.
Owns three Roy orbison albums
I still have a working Tandy TRS80 portable with clip on speaker and microphone. The progress has been astounding.
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Do you still speak Zilog? At one time I was bilingual, speaking both 6502 (Atom) and Z80 (TRS80 without a display). Not now. Did some 12C508A assembler 15-20 years ago -that is time spent I'll never get back - but the product did sell.
Never again.
Who were the early people on this BBS? When did it start?
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I'll just get my coat. I have no idea what you are talking about despite being 49!
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There's nothing cushy about life in the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps!
It's a bit unlike the 60s. You'd have to have been there to understand.
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That old screeching modem is the sound I have in both ears, but, loud and a bit higher pitched along with a swooching sound included. Yes, tinnitus. For over twenty years, it never ceases for one moment, conversation, especially on a telephone is very difficult. Listening to radio the same, television is a bit of hit or miss with sub-titles if present, on moving scenes with light or white background merging with white text, or the text appear so brief it is difficult to read!
Owns three Roy orbison albums
ZEAP on the NASCOM.
Can't remember a bit of it.
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In principle the only difference between the current implementation of the BBS and the older systems is the means of communication between your PC and the server. As has been explained by others it was necessary to dial up to the BBS server in order to communicate with it and in that case it was possible to communicate with only the server you had dialled so you had a dedicated connection for the duration of the call. Internet (more correctly "TCP/IP") is a way to communicate with many destinations at the same time, the "connections" are not dedicated, they are virtual connections and can adjust automatically to bypass failed or overloaded routes.
The at the dawn of home use internet it was still necessary to dial up a server, but that was an Internet Server acting as your gateway to the rest of the internet and all the other servers on it so the dial up connection was no longer dedicated to one server.
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Slow, expensive and no real graphics...but conversely - no adverts, no pop-ups and no-one trying to steal your data.
...and internet porn was non-existent beyond Maxine Headboom
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