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Nov 05Atari BBS Community Zoom Chat
Just a reminder about tomorrow's Atari BBS Community Chat for 3pm eastern on Sunday, November 5th. Agenda wise, we have a few things we can look at and discuss, so we'll leave it up to whoever shows up to decide... or whatever else comes to mind! For more information... https://tinyurl.com/nkbjhvb9 See you there! Please PM me for the meeting link...
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Nov 18
Atari BBS Community Zoom Chat
Sorry for the late notice.... work (monthly deployment fell on the same weekend as the chat again). So this is your reminder for tomorrow night about the Atari BBS Community Chat for 8pm eastern on Friday, November 17th. I'm really not going to plan an agenda because there are some really interesting invites going out and I think the discussion is going to be driven by whic
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Dec 03
Atari BBS Community Zoom Chat
Just your regular Atari BBS Community Zoom Meet Reminder As always, we meet on the first Sunday and third Friday of every month. The next meeting is Sunday, December 3rd at 3pm Eastern. No real agenda for this since my work project is in it's final stages, but those tend to be the most fun! (Rumor has it, we might have some people showing off some new IGS work!)
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Dec 16
Atari BBS Community Zoom Chat
Figured since this is the last one of the year (and kinda short notice) I'd post in a few more places.... Just your regular Atari BBS Community Zoom Meet Reminder... sorry for the late reminder. As always, we meet on the first Sunday and third Friday of every month... the next meeting is tonight, Friday, December 15th at 8pm Eastern. No real agenda for this since my wo
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Jan 07-
Atari BBS Community 1st Sunday Zoom Chat
Sorry its late been working on the magic URL It's time for your Atari BBS Community Zoom Chat Reminder! http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat Forevermore (and by that I mean as long as we do this or as long as I don't get hit by a bus) that will be the Zoom Chat Link. Magic as in most of the time, it will give the info and agenda for the next meeting, and
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Jan 20-
Atari BBS Community 3rd Friday Zoom Chat
Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Friday, January 19th 2024 at 8pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). Hope to see you there!
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Feb 04
Atari BBS Community 1st Sunday Zoom Chat
Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Sunday, February 4th 2024 at 3pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). Hope to see you there!
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Mar 03
Atari BBS Community 1st Sunday Zoom Chat
Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Sunday, March 3rd 2024 at 3pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). This will likely be a Michtron 3.0
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Mar 16-
Atari BBS Community 3rd Friday Zoom Chat
Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for Sunday, March 15th 2024 at 8pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the meeting starts). We're all dying to know... how did YOU spend "Baud Day
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Apr 20-
Atari BBS Community 3rd Friday Zoom Chat
Apologies for the very late reminder... Just a reminder for the Atari BBS community zoom chat for tonight, Friday, April 19th 2024 at 8pm Eastern. For more information and the proposed agenda, go to http://www.ataribbs.com/zoomchat This is also the link to the zoom meeting itself (it will automatically forward from 15 minutes before until four hours after the me
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Aug 01
Bulletin Board Construction Set is released
Bulletin Board Construction Set (BBCS) was first announced/reviewed in the August 1985 issue of Antic (Volume 4 Number 4 page 41). Antic also announced in this issue that it would sell BBCS through its Antic Arcade catalog. BBCS is a BBS program written in 100% machine language by Scott Brause of the Jersey Atari Computer Group. BBCS allowed the SysOp to customize the BBS through easy to use menus
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Aug 01
Atari Corp BBS goes online
In August, 1985 Atari Corp began operating a BBS. The BBS began on two Atari 800 computers and a Corvus hard disk, running the Nite Light BBS Software. By February, 1987 the BBS had 5 phone lines each connected to an Atari ST. Also in February, 1987 the Atari BBS was averaging 12,000 monthly calls (source: February 1987 issue of Antic Magazine - Volume 5, Number 10 page 52).
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Aug 01
XMODEM is Released
In August 1977, Ward Christensen, with input from other users of the CP/M operating system, writes XMODEM, the first binary file transfer protocol.
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Aug 01
Over 2,000 BBSs in August 1986
In August, 1986 there were over 2,000 Bulletin Board Systems in the United States (Source: August 1986, Volume 5 Number 10, issue of Antic magazine; page 15).
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Aug 01
MPP Reorganizes as Supra Corp
This month in 1985, Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP), was purchased by Supra Corporation. MPP was the maker of the popular MPP1000C and MPP1000E 300 baud modems that plugged into the Atari 8 bit's joystick port. Supra would rebrand the MPP1000E modem as the Supra 300AT modem (see image below). (source: September 1985 issue of the Portland Atari Club Newsletter, page 5. This was a reprint of an
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Aug 25
Quill BBS Software Announced
Quill, a new BBS software written in Action!, is announced at TARICON '84 in Detroit, Michigan (source: ROM Magazine v1i8 page 6).
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Sep 02
FoReM XE BBS is released
On this day, September 2nd, in 1985, FoReM XE BBS software is released. FoReM XE, developed by Matthew Singer, is an Atari 8-bit BBS written in the BASIC XE programming language. Previous versions of FoReM were written in BASIC XL and Atari Basic (see the Atari Frequently Asked Questions by Michael Current for a list of versions). FoReM XE is in the public domain. One of its noteworthy features i
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