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  • Re: Still active

    From Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to Charon on Thu Jan 15 12:12:11 2026
    On 1/12/2026 11:33 AM, Charon wrote:
    What was the first bbs that you called in 79? Just curious. I started to called bbs'es in 1985 and believe the first system I called into was a CompuServe multi-line system. It was shrotly after claling into CompuServe that a friend of mine that worked at a local Radio Shack printed me out my first bbs list to start calling.

    Charon
    riverstyx.ddns.net:2323
    I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead
    of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the
    phone bill! It was fun though connecting at 300 bps and watching the
    text slowly scroll by. I believe in those days we called that reading
    speed. I spend most of my paycheck at Radio Shack in the 80's. Thanks
    for bringing back a great memory.
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    Rixter,
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rixter on Fri Jan 16 08:16:13 2026
    Rixter wrote to Charon <=-

    I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead
    of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the
    phone bill!

    I was lucky - when I was on Compuserve, my company had a support forum
    on it, and we got 5 free, unlimited accounts to play with. I was
    75300,1375 for many years.

    In the Windows 3.1 era, there were nice GUI clients like WinCIM that
    made it a little more user-friendly.




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  • From Rixter@VERT/RICKSBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Jan 16 14:50:02 2026
    Re: Re: Still active
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rixter on Fri Jan 16 2026 08:16 am

    Rixter wrote to Charon <=-

    I remember connecting to compuserve. We had number assignments instead of handles. I also remember having to get a part time job to pay the phone bill!

    I was lucky - when I was on Compuserve, my company had a support forum
    on it, and we got 5 free, unlimited accounts to play with. I was
    75300,1375 for many years.

    In the Windows 3.1 era, there were nice GUI clients like WinCIM that
    made it a little more user-friendly.
    YOU were very lucky!
    Rixter
    telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
    http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
    IRC www.irccloud.com/irc/ricksbbs/channel/ricksbbs

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