Post from a long time VB user and .org member.

[Robert Basil]

Originally Posted by Boofo

But I do rember the BBS days (in the beginning even).

Funny you should mention BBS's. My Uncle is Ward Christensen (The author of the XMODEM protocol and the very first BBS software "CBBS" back in 1978)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Christensen

I was also the FAQ author for the Renegade BBS software in the early 90's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renegade_%28BBS%29

Now I'm a professional webmaster and DBA for www.godaddy.com

We are really showing our age!

[Boofo]

I ran Spitfire BBS back in the days. The author of it lives about 10 miles from me so I was in on all the updates and beta testing up front. That's when a 10 MHZ AST (what I had) would kick a 12 MHZ Compaq (what the Spitfire author had) to dust. We thought we were the Kings of the hill back then.

[Revan]

Holy ****, 10 MHz? I think my 3.20 GHz P4 is slow ffs

[Boofo]

I was the bad boy on my block back then with the fastest BBS in town if not the state. I guess you could consider me the PC-Rebel of the Golden Age.

[high]* Boofo has given everyone enough ammunition now for the age jokes. He hopes they are happy[/high]

[smacklan]

Originally Posted by Boofo

I was the bad boy on my block back then with the fastest BBS in town if not the state. I guess you could consider me the PC-Rebel of the Golden Age.

[high]* Boofo has given everyone enough ammunition now for the age jokes. He hopes they are happy[/high]

hehe...TV's used to be black and white and had no remotes once upon a time too ( I still kick myself when I think about the $2300 I dropped for a P75 with 8mgb of RAM once upon a time )

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by Revan

Holy ****, 10 MHz? I think my 3.20 GHz P4 is slow ffs

hey, there's a lot to be said for a 10MHz machine with a 300bps modem
I could read a 1000-new-message board faster then, than I can now!

--don

[Boofo]

But you have to realize, Revan, back then we didn't use all the graphics and "pretty" stuff they use now. We used straight color coded files with nothing but text. Boards were slow, yes, but not as slow as you would think for the technology available then. Since there were no higher speeds to compare to, (until the blazing 2400 Baud modem showed up) we felt like were zooming at the time.