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Josh Renaud’s blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences.
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“Why I love my ATARI Computer”
Today I came across a really cool textfile that I wrote near the beginning of my BBSing days. What’s amazing to me is that it gives a date for when I began BBSing, and even explains how I got started (a story I had forgotten).
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The Commodore 64
Although I was raised on a steady diet of Atari growing up, I did use other machines over the years at school. For example, I remember using a Commodore 64 in kindergarten, and learning to work in LogoWriter on the 64 in third or fourth grade. I came across this wonderful blog post from the…
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The Christmas we got an Atari Jaguar
Christmas is nearing, and it occurred to me that nearly 20 years ago, I had my most memorable Christmas present of all time.
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Forget his joining Twitter, how about the time the Pope got a 1-900 number?
I was perusing some old Compute! magazines at archive.org, when I came across this gem …
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Telnet to a BBS using a terminal program in the Hatari emulator
UPDATE (2020-09-03): In the years since I wrote this blog post, I have found some ways to improve this process. Please read my new tutorial on how to telnet to a BBS using a terminal inside the Hatari emulator. When I was a kid calling BBSes, I used an Atari ST computer. But I seldom…
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So it begins.
Wikipedia deleted Space Empire Elite. Well, they killed the article, anyway.
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