[kwlug-disc] a present for the older guys here...

[Mark Steffen]

CRS has a 1-800 number if you were part of their Sysop program for having NANET echo mail on your BBS.  The 800 nodes were restricted basically to doing those tasks, but it was still a blessing for those of us out in nowhere land.

> On Nov 30, 2022, at 6:49 AM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Up until this century I lived in Stratford, and it was a long distance call to Toronto, so no CRS for me.  But the place I worked at in the 90's had a direct line to TO, so I "worked late" every night and used the one system in the company that had a modem to dial out to CRS.  So every night I was on CRS for the allowed maximum of two hours, madly downloading all the things.  I'd copy my treasure to floppies and take them home each night.  Fun times.
> 
> I remember once Jud had posted on the BBS that we should check out the movie "Sneakers".  I still enjoy that movie to this day.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:59 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com <mailto:ronsingh149 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Canada Remote Systems, yes, run by the late and very great Jud Newell. 
>> 
>> Such a lovely man he was, inspiring me to try my hand at doing a CP/M-based BBS back then. 
>> 
>> Most memorable time I recall of CRS and Newell was him insisting on buying me a double cheeseburger at a Harvey's as I stood lamely rifling through my pockets for change to buy some fast food while at some swap meet in Toronto. So kind, he was. He took of in 2016 to run a BBS on "the other side".
>> 
>> Ron S.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:26 PM <jekerr at sdf.org <mailto:jekerr at sdf.org>> wrote:
>>> > https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
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>>> When I was fresh out of Sheridan College with my Library Techniques
>>> Diploma I obtained my first library position partly due to my diploma, but
>>> mainly because I knew how to establish an online database, and back in the
>>> days of DOS and 1200 baud modems, few people had any idea as to how to do
>>> that. How? every BBS had a file download component that gave the ability
>>> to search the file collection by keyword or file name and in the case of
>>> text files, keyword search within a file. There you have it! An online
>>> database.
>>> 
>>> My curiosity of BBSing won the day for me. PCboard was my software, and
>>> then when the Major BBS came out with the graphics ability I went with it.
>>> But when I purchased the software they had just released an Internet
>>> connectivity component. Since I was based at the University of Guelph
>>> attaching my BBS to the Internet was easy.
>>> Excehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBSpt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBSpt> that....
>>> It also came with a web server component. So I presented our information
>>> on a web server and within a few months there was no activity on the BBS,
>>> everything was accessed (and accessed by a much wider audience) on the web
>>> server. That was in 1994.
>>> 
>>> Not too long after that, the commercial BBS software companies went
>>> bankrupt. This included companies that created the software and the BBS
>>> sites. Canada Remote Systems, one of the most popular BBS vendors made a
>>> gallant effort to stay relevant but they too bit the dust to the WWW.
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Remote_Systems
>>> 
>>> It was around 1994 that the world changed but by 1996 it was all over for
>>> the BBS .
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>> Cheers,
>>> John Kerr
>>> 
>>> 
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