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From: Leif Bloomquist on 13 Apr 2008 20:59
Hi all,

On April 11th 2003, I posted a message to comp.sys.cbm announcing the launch
of my telnettable Commodore 64 BBS.

Yup, I've been at this for 5 years now.

At the time, I said with tongue in cheek that if I got 20 callers, I'd keep
the BBS up for a while. Well, as of right now, I have 7,267 callers logged.
Wow. I had totally underestimated the amount of interest and nostalgia
there was for the C64, BBSes and retro systems in general.

Off the top of my head, the BBS and the crappy VB6 program that makes it
work led to: (directly or indirectly)

-Many trips to the offbeat world of Commodore "expos"
-Finding out about and joining TPUG
-Meeting many very cool people
-Several other Commodore Telnet BBSes appearing
-A community of TelBBSers and Sysops
-An appearance in the BBS Documentary
-A few mentions on Slashdot
-Writeups in the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail

Phew! It will be tough to top all that, but I intend to keep the BBS up and
running for the foreseeable future!

It's free to call - call now! ;-) (See old sig below)

Regards,
Leif

--
Call Negative Format BBS - Hosted on a real C64!
telnet to 209.151.141.59 Port 23
http://home.ica.net/~leifb/bbs/


From: christianlott1 on 13 Apr 2008 21:57
Congrats Leif!
From: Wolfgang Moser on 14 Apr 2008 00:17
Leif Bloomquist schrieb:
> [...]
> Off the top of my head, the BBS and the crappy VB6 program that makes it
> work led to: (directly or indirectly)
> [...]

to not forget digging up all these old 1581 kits
and introducing a GUI for OpenCBM.


Womo

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