Category Archives: BBS

Gearing Up For Proper BBSing With the Raspberry Pi

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Blake Patterson

A few recent retro challenges I’ve undertaken had me wanting to spend a bit more time logged in to BBS’s strewn here and there about the web. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time on BBS’s over the years, nearly all of it long ago … Continue reading →

Posted in Amiga, BBS, Multi-Platform, Serial Terminal | 4 Comments

The ‘Real Genius’-Inspired BBS Challenge

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Blake Patterson

Regular readers will have noticed that I have frequently joined in on the fun of r/Retrobattlestations‘ weekly and monthly retro challenges. I’ve done so with such frequency that I recently had to create an r/Retrobattlestations post category on this blog. These … Continue reading →

Posted in BBS, r/Retrobattlestations | 1 Comment

Computer Users’ Groups of My Past [Updated]

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Blake Patterson

I’ve spent the past couple of months procuring parts and assembling a 486-class DOS PC that is more or less a replica of the 486 PC I had back in college, in 1994. That’s the machine that first delivered the … Continue reading →

Posted in BBS, Just Rambling | 13 Comments