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redgus78 t1_j5ml0pq wrote

Reply to comment by Obadiah-Mafriq in TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS by Profile_Salty

Wow, I didn't realize there were still BBSs out there. I spent a lot of time on those in the 90s. My Commodore 64 was gone by then, but was rocking a Pentium II. I remember I had this crappy xeroxed copy of all the non-long distance BBSs in my area that I would plow through to find new ones whenever my favorites were giving me the busy signal. Sometimes they were already gone, and someone would answer the phone/modem! I miss those "simpler" times.

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Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mz8ap wrote

I think my first was The Tardis BBS, run by The Doctor on his Commodore 128 in Valdosta, Georgia in 1983. It was a fun community. (In 1983 it was still running on his Commodore 64, though.) [edited to add the parenthetical]

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