Quote Originally Posted by Slade
It actually was a very interesting and fun era..(while frustrating also since the technology was pretty new and the boards crashed a lot).

I started a gay bbs in Seattle in 1985 called "28 Barbary Lane". Believe it or not..it was on an ATARI 800 with ONE..*1* single sided single density floppy drive that could hold about..oh 20-25 messages before the first ones scrolled off!

Then..expanded it to a system using "DLX", one of the first multi-line softwares that came out (on the pc of course) and, WHAM, the bbs'ers were like kids in a candy store. Not only could there be more than one user online at a time..but they could CHAT with each other! Not only one on one, but in a group chat! You would have thought we had invented penicillin or something. The membership was in awe, and from there..grew leaps and bounds until the late 90s when the internet finally made the bbs system obsolete.

You are the one that ran 28??? I was looking for that on the list. It is the first BBS I was ever on. Prior to that, my only online experience was with Quantum Link on the Commodore 64. That was a fun era. I remember how excited I was the first time I ever saw text in multi colors. And just now remembered the pic of the house on 28 that was drawn from the keyboard........wow, now I am feeling old and nostalgic.