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The SA BBS Scene

Posted on Saturday, 16. July 2011 by hmvh

Here’s a memorial page dedicated to anecdotes, bulletins, documents, essays, images, lists, memories, nostalgia, photos, and related matter recollecting the South African bulletin board scene of the 80’s and 90’s. Continue reading →

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BBS News: HAPPY 1998!

Posted on Monday, 5. January 1998 by hmvh

Only two years to go before the Y2K paranoia becomes stark reality! In the meanwhile,”Oral Ecstacy” is the current CD. Also, something on 33k6: Connecting at this rate should be a bit better now, despite the fact that RemoteAccess doesn’t support it and refers … Continue reading →

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BBS News: GEARING DOWN TO 28800 AT THE AGE OF TWO

Posted on Monday, 16. December 1996 by hmvh

Seems like the new modem and this line don’t get along well at all, so I’ve decided to re-install the USR 28800 again to see how things develop. A new file viewer has also been installed: Hit [V] in the … Continue reading →

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BBS News: MODEM!

Posted on Tuesday, 19. November 1996 by hmvh

Apologies for the BBS being unavailable over the last few days, but we’ve suffered from a SysOp’s greatest dilemma: Faulty modem. The USR was only temporarily re-installed, a 33.6kbps now delivers the throughput. How well it delivers, though, is fairly … Continue reading →

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BBS News: BACK IN THE LAND OF THE CONNECTABLES

Posted on Wednesday, 10. April 1996 by hmvh

Hello, how are you? Nice to see you again, it’s good to see you connect. We had some problems… the modem packed up. Nice, huh? If you connected during the Easter weekend, that was to the USR, with the BBS … Continue reading →

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BBS News: HIGHER SPEED

Posted on Saturday, 3. February 1996 by hmvh

Line noise and other shit aside, we’ve decided to invest in another v.34 28800bps modem, a brand of lesser status than USR. So far it’s working. Let us know if there are any new problems.

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BBS News: Back at 14400

Posted on Sunday, 14. May 1995 by hmvh

Changing to lower gear: I’m having so much shit with this USR 28k8 of mine I’ve decided to slap the old generic piece of rubbish 14400 back in (at least it works) until I know exactly what’s going on with … Continue reading →

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