> My first login was at UCLA in July 1979 (I was all of seven years >
old!)... and I was hooked.
 
Wow, dude, you're ancient! :)
 
I my first login was in 1985; my school had an Apple ][e with a 300 bps
modem. I would've been 11 or 12. I was calling the KGH BBS, which ran on
Tom Jennings' Fido software.. I still remember the dog-with-disk logo. I
also called "The Hyperboard" -- all these years later, I still
have contact with the sysop.
 
I started BBSing full time in 1987 when I got a VIC-1600 300 bps modem for
my C64. Those were the glory days of the Commodore Color BBSes, running
DarkStar software! Do you remember those? It's a little known fact
that sjd actually wrote some C64 Color-BBS terminal software for the IBM 
PC, but never released it because it wasn't good enough -- then turned his
attention to Maximus. Hey, I should nag him about releasing the source. :)
 
Anyhow, In '88 I bought a 1200 bps modem on sale -- only $149 -- and since
it had auto-answer, I begged my parents to let me have another phone line
(549-2351 -- I still remember the number! -- it was pulse only to save
$2/mo) and up went my board.
 
Took it down in '94, I think (switched to PC Board in '93), when I lost
interested in the BBS world.
 
It'll be back again soon, though. I got my old node number back and everything. :) 
 
Wes

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