Look what I stumbled on...
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/204/
Cool. A walk down memory lane. Unfortunately this seems to be mainly focussed on the 90's, and most of my BBSing was in the late 80's. However, they do list a few I recognize/used:
Ariel Cobalt's Ursa Minor Atari ST User Group
But they miss most of my old favorites, including the one that changed my life forever...
And, look closely at some of the names: we find Les (of .net) and our own Adam Thompson.
Makes me want to dig up my old Atari ST file archives and see if I still have all my faves saved in my terminal software... but I can't seem to find the file, so it might be on tape... and I recently discontinued my SCSI setup. Well, time to haul out the Adaptec 19160 and DAT :-)
Looks like if I can find the info I could submit the data!
Ah, BBSs, those were the days...
I guess these would be more up your alley?
http://bbslist.textfiles.com/204/oldschool.html
-Alberto
On 2021-04-30 2:09 a.m., Trevor Cordes wrote:
On 2021-04-30 Alberto Abrao wrote:
I guess these would be more up your alley?
Looking at that, it appears to be a subset that's available in the /204/ url: not additional entries. Obviously, it'll be hard for anyone to recall or find data for BBS's the farther back in time you go.
That's why it'd be fun to find my old Atari files which I know I have somewhere. However, I may not have stale files all the way back to the mid-80s, simply because I didn't really have a backup setup with perpetual retention... mostly due to the limited number of 720k floppies I could afford :-) So I probably only have a snapshot of the BBSs I used near the very end of my Atari days, which probably had already weeded out the long-gone 80's ones.
As a former STUG exec, I also feel obligated to (one day) go through the old STUG newsletters to find the historical record of all the phone #'s and BBS software STUG used to run (which changed 3-4 times over the years).
Old BBS's not on the list I can recall liking a lot:
Stalker Roughboy GameTrade ... and 3-5 more I really can't recall with my aging brain at the moment
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Alberto Abrao -
Trevor Cordes