On 6/30/2015 12:08 AM, Eric Oulashin -> Matt Bedynek wrote:

 EO> I agree, it was good to see what was covered by the documentary, and I
 EO> enjoyed
 EO> watching it and remembering my time using BBSes in the 90s (I first started
 EO> using BBSes in 1992 when I got my own PC and modem).

One part part of it that really hit me was when one of those interviewed
mentioned how they could tell what part of the system a user was on by the
sounds the system made.  I remember this clearly when I ran a single node
system with no multitasking.  The loading of the BBS from the mailer,
logging in, checking mail and even launching doors.  I couldn't have
remembered that degree of detail otherwise.

 EO> My BBS usually gets anywhere between 3 and 10 calls a day (sometimes a
 EO> little
 EO> more or less).  There are a few doors that are popular, and sometimes my
 EO> BBS
 EO> gets around an hour and a half or 2 hours of use each day (sometimes
 EO> more or
 EO> less).

I believe my primary focus would be a few popular games and collecting of
hard to find files.  It is strange but I started remembering the names of
tools even though many are not practical to use today.  At least as far as
Unix is concerned most of what those utilities did could be done with a
perl or python script.

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