This is very cool but I have seen this before. What I wonder is if it might be possible to hack VICE or MESS to directly support telnet in place of the modem?
That way you could just run it on any Linux box in emulation.
Not as cools as a real C64 but a little more practical.

Posted at 11:57 am on Aug 21st, 2008 by LWATCDR

“Sorry, the BBS is busy. Please try again in a few minutes!”

It IS nostalgic!

Posted at 11:58 am on Aug 21st, 2008 by mckt

wow i totally forgot about bbs’ing, me and a friend used to run a bbs in highschool like 13years ago. I hear theres still bbs’s on the net

Posted at 12:31 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by Birdman

Yeah I got the busy notice as well, then tried to log on to all the other ones. Only one responded, also with a busy notice. Yep, JUST like the old days.

Posted at 12:51 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by Demo

Awesome. I was born in 1986 and kind of missed this period of technology. It was going on around me, but by the time I had an interest it was all about the internet. Sometimes I wish I had been born earlier so I could have experienced that.

Posted at 12:55 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by tiuk

Geez.. I remember the days of BBSing. Wow. /me goes off to reminisce.

Posted at 1:33 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by Adam Ziegler

tiuk: Trust me at 300 baud you weren’t missing anything.

Posted at 1:51 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by TJ

@tiuk Im in exactly the same boat. 1986, there year no one wanted.

Posted at 2:09 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by blizzarddemon

Ahhh, the BBS. Remember how cool it seemed when a BBS had two nodes and you could chat with another person and the sysop at the same time!

Gio

Posted at 3:25 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by diy audio projects

old old is old.

One guy’s had an honest-to-god dial-up c64 bbs going for a while now.

http://cottonwood.servebbs.com/

Posted at 6:07 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by Rawrl

Gee.. 300 baud was great compared, to what we had before, which was nothing. I admit using 300 baud today, wouldn’t be near the fun as cruising around in a Model A would be. However if 300 baud became the only option again, I’d use it for what it can be used for.

Posted at 10:29 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by static

I dial-up BBSed heavily there towards the end of it’s popularity.

Good times.

Posted at 9:45 am on Aug 22nd, 2008 by strider_mt2k

Great idea. It brings back a lot of memories for me. I ran a C64 BBS for over 3 years back in the ’80s. I remember waiting for the first 300baud modem to come out for the C64. Then I upgraded to a 1200baud modem when they came out. Then a 2400baud modem. I still have the 2400baud modem.

But I can’t seem to get into your BBS. It only sends me…. “We’re under attack! Good luck with that, whoever you are. ;-)”

I’m not trying to hack it. I’m just trying to connect.

Posted at 3:28 pm on Aug 22nd, 2008 by C64Guy

I’ve read this one eons ago. It’s not just Commidoink %] 64s that have those special connections between serial port of said computer and an ethernet port. That BBS documentary DVD came out almost two years ago. Was fascinated by it myself since I’m way old school I guess – I actually ran a BBS from 1987 to about 1996. On Atari machines. Hence the Commidoink reference.

Posted at 7:41 pm on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Fafaflunkie

I keep a list of all active commodore bbs’s in operation, check it out here:
http://imageoutpost.hobby-site.com/telbbs.php
Enjoy!

Posted at 9:42 am on Aug 26th, 2008 by Spriggly

I started a site where we talk about old and current BBS, chat servers, other “pre-web” technology, etc.. if anybody wants to check it out.

http://www.cultoftheoldschool.com

Just put it up recently, so it isn’t too busy yet, but hopefully the word will get out there and it will be a great place where people can see what systems are currently running (BBS, DDial, STS, GTalk, etc), buy/sell/trade “nostalgic” hardware and software, reminisce about old systems and maybe run into a few old friends. Also going to be distributing my linkable chat server software via the site within the next few months if anyone is interested in running a ddial-like chat server and being part of our network!

Posted at 10:52 am on Aug 26th, 2008 by que

If anyone is interested i have a DiversiDial system up online via

telnet at DigitalDial.HomeUnix.Com Port:10000, come and check it out,

Thanks!

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Posted at 1:50 am on Feb 13th, 2009 by LourseKeedo

The memories haunt me sometimes, in a good way. I ran a CNet c64 BBS for a few years at the ripe old age of 14. I wound up friends with some other sysop’s in my county. After a while I discovered music,cars and girls and left it all behind. I’d go back to those days of phreaking into party lines in a second. I always smile when I think of those days. –=l8r=–.

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Posted at 1:11 pm on May 15th, 2009 by GreggG

Wow Murph’s story is nearly identical to mine. I ran a C-Net DS-2 BBS in northern IL in the late 80’s. Bought a 67 Camaro, then came the girls, and there was no more time for the BBS. It makes me sad though. It was awesome going to sleep and having all the disk drive lights start going nuts because someone was on. Just bought a C-128 again, but can’t see much call for a BBS. Stupid internet. Still have the Camaro, can’t get the chicks anymore though.

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