[kwlug-disc] a present for the older guys here...

[CrankyOldBugger]

Up until this century I lived in Stratford, and it was a long distance call
to Toronto, so no CRS for me.  But the place I worked at in the 90's had a
direct line to TO, so I "worked late" every night and used the one system
in the company that had a modem to dial out to CRS.  So every night I was
on CRS for the allowed maximum of two hours, madly downloading all the
things.  I'd copy my treasure to floppies and take them home each night.
Fun times.

I remember once Jud had posted on the BBS that we should check out the
movie "Sneakers".  I still enjoy that movie to this day.


On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:59 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Canada Remote Systems, yes, run by the late and very great Jud Newell.
>
> Such a lovely man he was, inspiring me to try my hand at doing a
> CP/M-based BBS back then.
>
> Most memorable time I recall of CRS and Newell was him insisting on buying
> me a double cheeseburger at a Harvey's as I stood lamely rifling through my
> pockets for change to buy some fast food while at some swap meet in
> Toronto. So kind, he was. He took of in 2016 to run a BBS on "the other
> side".
>
> Ron S.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:26 PM <jekerr at sdf.org> wrote:
>
>> > https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/
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>> When I was fresh out of Sheridan College with my Library Techniques
>> Diploma I obtained my first library position partly due to my diploma, but
>> mainly because I knew how to establish an online database, and back in the
>> days of DOS and 1200 baud modems, few people had any idea as to how to do
>> that. How? every BBS had a file download component that gave the ability
>> to search the file collection by keyword or file name and in the case of
>> text files, keyword search within a file. There you have it! An online
>> database.
>>
>> My curiosity of BBSing won the day for me. PCboard was my software, and
>> then when the Major BBS came out with the graphics ability I went with it.
>> But when I purchased the software they had just released an Internet
>> connectivity component. Since I was based at the University of Guelph
>> attaching my BBS to the Internet was easy.
>> Excehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBSpt that....
>> It also came with a web server component. So I presented our information
>> on a web server and within a few months there was no activity on the BBS,
>> everything was accessed (and accessed by a much wider audience) on the web
>> server. That was in 1994.
>>
>> Not too long after that, the commercial BBS software companies went
>> bankrupt. This included companies that created the software and the BBS
>> sites. Canada Remote Systems, one of the most popular BBS vendors made a
>> gallant effort to stay relevant but they too bit the dust to the WWW.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCBoard
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_BBS
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Remote_Systems
>>
>> It was around 1994 that the world changed but by 1996 it was all over for
>> the BBS .
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>> Cheers,
>> John Kerr
>>
>>
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