Hanselminutes Podcast 161 - BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software
My one-hundred-and-sixty-first podcast is up. Scott chats with founders of Mustang Software (creators of Wildcat! BBS) Jim Harrer and Scott Hunter about the BBS era. We start at 300 baud and work our way up. Remember Hayes modems, v.32bis, Fidonet, Compuserve? This is the show for you.
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It was a different time, I was a kid and the most I had to worry about was my mom picking up the ph#@#$#@%#@#%# NO CARRIER
Once again, another great trip down memory lane.
Here I'll plug my long defunct BBS: VisionQuest BBS. sigh...
...and you're right. The world was much "friendlier" online then. I think that is due in part to computers being really more of a hobbyist group back then and we could all share our horror stories of configuring interrupts, ports, and what have you for sound cards and even our mice! Then we'd want to share our "victory" of a proper configuration with others and also want to get others up and running.
Many thanks Jim and Scott! You guys enabled this "kid" from a small town to open his eyes to the world.
I didn't have a PC until college, but faithfully logged in to many a Commodore 64 BBS. I was psyched when I moved to Atlanta in the Fall of 1987 and discovered a MUCH LARGER toll free dialing area, with a list of hundreds of BBSs to call--all for free!
Definitely true about the "friendly-ness" of the era. I still try to treat others the same as I did back then (and as I was treated, myself).
Thanks for this podcast!
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Minor nitpick: baud does not always equals bps, although probably for modems of back them it was true. See here.