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Baud Day 3/12/24 (www.southernamis.com)

submitted 9 months ago by akacastor to c/[email protected]

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IT'S BAUD DAY 3/12/24

From the linked site:

Something that SysOps did when they advertised their BBS. Rather than write a BBS’ supported baud rates as “300/1200/2400”, they would write “3/12/24”. The reason for this abbreviation is probably due to how BBSs were advertised back in the day. Most BBSs were advertised in text files. Depending on the host computer, a text file may have 40 or 80 characters per line. So, space was a premium and dropping 6 characters from “300/1200/2400” made a big difference.

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[–] akacastor 2 points 9 months ago

A list of over 1,000 (current) BBSes: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com

Most of these BBSes are accessible via telnet - there are many options for telnet, but typically for BBSes you want a terminal that supports ANSI colours and IBM-PC characters (CP437). A recommended terminal program for Win/Mac/Linux is SyncTerm: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net

There are about 40 dialup modem BBSes in the list: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/

For more information about the world of BBSes in the 1980s and 90s, a great source of history is Jason Scott's BBS Documentary and Al's Geek Lab Back to the BBS.