My first experience with calling a BBS was in the early 80's, I went to my Older brothers house and he had bought a Color Computer (CoCo) and had also bought a 300 baud modem that you manually dialed the BBS then placed the phone on the modem.
then you would hear all the modem sounds and walla you would be connected to a BBS, in this case the BBS was called the Data Warehouse.
I could type faster than the words would appear.
later that year I did some work for a friend who paid me by pawning off his Commadore Vic-20 with a cassette tape drive <-my first computer, loading a program from cassette could take some time, I could almost type in the basic program faster than it would load from cassette LOL.
I then Decided to go buy myself a Color Computer 2 with a
Multipack, I then bought a heyes 1200 baud Modem and Dual 5/14 floppie drive.
about that Time my Brother bought another Color computer and he wrote his own BBS program in basic for it (Color Connect) and found a fossil driver and we started our BBS and advertised it in the Rainbow Magazine, Our BBS was called the CoCoshop..

Wow have things changed since then.

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On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 07:18:43 -0700, "Denn" <denn@VERT/OUTWEST> wrote:

My first experience with calling a BBS was in the early 80's, I went to my >Older brothers house and he had bought a Color Computer (CoCo) and had also >bought a 300 baud modem that you manually dialed the BBS then placed the phone >on the modem.
then you would hear all the modem sounds and walla you would be connected to a
BBS, in this case the BBS was called the Data Warehouse.
I could type faster than the words would appear.
later that year I did some work for a friend who paid me by pawning off his >Commadore Vic-20 with a cassette tape drive <-my first computer, loading a >program from cassette could take some time, I could almost type in the basic >program faster than it would load from cassette LOL.
I then Decided to go buy myself a Color Computer 2 with a
Multipack, I then bought a heyes 1200 baud Modem and Dual 5/14 floppie drive.
about that Time my Brother bought another Color computer and he wrote his own
BBS program in basic for it (Color Connect) and found a fossil driver and we >started our BBS and advertised it in the Rainbow Magazine, Our BBS was called >the CoCoshop..

My first was a ZX81 and that required some patience loading in the
games from tape. You had to provide your own tape machine and get the
levels just right otherwise you're out of luck.

Like you, I also had the Commodore Vic-20 and tape drive. I had a few
of the solid state game cartridges too which were instant loading. It
ended up having trouble with overheating and I got rid of that to make
way for a BBC Micro. Again, tape driven but I soon progressed to dual
floppy drives and eventually got a hard disk. 10MB! I've documented my
modem story elsewhere...

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Wow have things changed since then.

I have similar things in a bulletin on my BBS, that details its history...experiences now over 30 years old.

Daryl

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Re: 300 baud Modem
By: Denn to All on Fri Mar 09 2018 07:18 am

Was that the Direct Connect DCM-3 300baud modem?

That was my first too, also with a CoCo2. I used Greg-E-Term in those days. Likewise I also would get a Coco3 and an Avatex 1200e. I used VTerm mainly in those days as it fairly accurately handled VT100/220 and I was using a lot of VAX/VMS and Unix machines across BITNet/internet. This was ~1988-90'ish. Still have the Avatex 1200e, but sold the DCM-3 with the CoCo2 when I got a CoCo3. Eventually, would get another CoCo2 as there were some programs and games that only ran on a native Coco2. DCM-3's sometimes pop up on eBay. Thought about picking one up for nolstagia. I remember the CoCo's with great foneness. Learned a lot from them and The Rainbow...


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