On 06/27/16, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK> VAX/VMS?  The first BBS I ever saw was a VAX/VMS based one way back
 MK> before the earth's crust cooled.  I don't recall if it was the same one
 MK> where I first encountered text messaging but it seems to me that it was,
 MK> and the messages were mostly posts about wanting to share gas expenses
 MK> for a ride to Vancouver (usually Vancouver), or selling off furntiture
 MK> due to a move, etc.  Occasional chatter but not that much of that. 
 MK> Definetly no ANSI or door games at that time.  Quite a bit of ASCII art
 MK> and banner type posts now that I think about it.  It was many, many
 MK> years later before I saw a doorgame or offline messaging or anything
 MK> along that line.  Offhand I don't think there was even file downloads.

I've heard of VAX/VMS but never seen it. Was that run on unix or something
altogether different?

My first computing endeaver was on an 8088 or maybe it was 8086 I forget. It
was given to me because I was having trouble getting my morse code up to 5
wpm for my amateur radio license. It worked too, shortly after that I had my
amateur radio license. That was DOS 3 or something there about. That computer
also had a modem in it so it wasn't long before I was BBSing and not long
after that I was running my own BBS.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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