Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS?

Re:Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? by dusted on Sunday November 07, 2021 @02:44PM (#29142770)

1200 is not too bad on a bbs, I'm often doing that on my c64. 300 is slow!

I used 9600 setting up an rs/6000 last week, and it was fast enough that I didn't notice.

I live in a weird alternate universe.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? by GekkePrutser on Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:18PM (#29143608)

Not that weird, I still have a bunch of SPARC Netras with serial ports only (no video) and several HP-UX boxes <3

I love that old stuff, and figuring out how to use their boot managers etc. On the Netras the configuration is actually stored on a smart card. Very cool.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? by ipaddr on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:12PM (#29155567)

300 you have to wait a little for text but 150 was really slow. When I got my 2400 and 9600 things were crazy fast.

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Re:Ask HN: What was it like to use BBS? by evilbob93 on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:37PM (#29165526)

One day in the mid 1980s we were checking the speeds available in our VT100 terminals. For fun we dropped it down to 150 to see what that was like. It was so slow that when you hit the delete key, you could watch it backspace, type a space, then backspace again.

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