Long before the Internet....

Onkel Neal · 03-04-09, 10:55 AM

It's cool that some of you guys have that old school legacy in your background.

I wish I had been more tech involved from the beginning. My best bud bought a TRS-80 in 1979, he worked at Radio Shack. We used to load the programs on it with a cassette player--the volume had to be set just right to work--and after 6 or 7 minutes, we could play Pharoh or Bedlam. I learned a bit of Basic to write a program that worked like a database, if you typed the name of a song, it would tell you the artist and album, etc. Eventually I bought a Timex Sinclair, but most of my computer experience up until DOS was on his TRS-80 and CoCo.

But we didn't get into BBSs until the early '90s. I worked with an old guy who had green teeth and smoked dope like a fiend. He had four or five caseless computers in his living room, his whole house looked like a techie's dream. He ran a BBS and I remember dialing in to it. It had door games of all kinds, and chat, very cool.

A couple years later I logged into this thing they called the World Wide Web and slowly left BBSs behind.

Check out video 2, the one about SysOps, really cool.

Neal

03-04-09, 10:55 AM	#7
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	It's cool that some of you guys have that old school legacy in your background. I wish I had been more tech involved from the beginning. My best bud bought a TRS-80 in 1979, he worked at Radio Shack. We used to load the programs on it with a cassette player--the volume had to be set just right to work--and after 6 or 7 minutes, we could play Pharoh or Bedlam. I learned a bit of Basic to write a program that worked like a database, if you typed the name of a song, it would tell you the artist and album, etc. Eventually I bought a Timex Sinclair, but most of my computer experience up until DOS was on his TRS-80 and CoCo. But we didn't get into BBSs until the early '90s. I worked with an old guy who had green teeth and smoked dope like a fiend. He had four or five caseless computers in his living room, his whole house looked like a techie's dream. He ran a BBS and I remember dialing in to it. It had door games of all kinds, and chat, very cool. A couple years later I logged into this thing they called the World Wide Web and slowly left BBSs behind. Check out video 2, the one about SysOps, really cool. Neal __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web Last edited by Onkel Neal; 03-05-09 at 02:41 AM.