VCF 7.0: BBS Bonanza in Bay Area

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 17, 2004 @05:28PM from the just-time-to-walk dept.

RaD Man [ACiD] writes "Vintage Computer Festival 7.0 will be taking place November 6-7th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California! In addition to the tours of antiquities and computer history galore, VCF 7.0 will be hosting a unique Retro Video Game Programming Challenge and presenting a number of interesting seminar speakers, such as the inventor of FidoNet, Tom Jennings. The VCF founder will also be appearing on G4TechTV's "The Screen Savers" this Tuesday, October 19th, to demonstrate some of his favorite artifacts."

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BBS's are alive and well out there by arjovenzia · 2004-10-17 19:00 · Score: 5, Informative

I recently have had a look around some of the BBS's that are present on the 'net (via telnet), particularly those running Synchronet software http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html. Being to young for BBS's (and the town i live in would have never had a local system), I have never experienced them, but lookin around a few, I love them. Yay for retrogeeks!
i wish there was something like that remotely close to where I am, old computer systems are so cool. i think its a shame that there isn't something that we can do with all that old equipment