Subj : Old Days
To   : All
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Oct 08 2024 10:51 am

I was thinking about Dial Up BBS's.
I know THE BBS I am using still has a phone connection even though I access it
online .

What I was thinking about was some of them had a time Limit of say 30 Minutes
max.
Lots of times I couldn't read all of the new posts and would have to call back
later that day to read them all. Note: I was using a C=64 at that time.

One BBS wouldn't allow a user to log on after they was the last one that signed
in and I might have to wait several hours to log on it again if nobody had
called it that day.

It was GREAT later when I got a DOS 5 computer and could use QWK to grab new
posts and get off in a flash so others could use the BBS too.
I could take all the time I wanted reading messages so others could call the
Board while I was indulging myself reading new stuff.

Just dreaming, since I don't know if a Android phone could do QWK like the home
PC did.
Ed
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