Atari BBSing with Rob Sherman

About this episode

Rob Sherman discusses his experiences with BBSing in the 1980s and his current Atari-based telnet bulletin-board systems.

Rob Sherman joins the show to discuss his early years of BBSing in the 1980's and his current telnet bulletin-board systems running on Atari 8-bit gear. Rob's telnet BBS's are as follows: Southernamis.ddns.net:23 This BBS runs in the AWS cloud 24/7 on Atari 130XE, 850 interfaces at a lightning speed of 9600 baud. Amis86.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is a complete rebuild of MACE 1986 AMIS BBS. Enhanced and highly modified Nitelite.ddns.net:9000 This BBS is the restoration of the Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS Nitelite ... an amazing part of Atari History. Here's the terminal, SyncTerm, used in the show: https://syncterm.bbsdev.net/

People in this episode

Host: Jim Lawless

Guest: Rob Sherman

Topics covered

• BBSing
• Atari
• technology
• telnet
• 1980s
• gaming history

Keywords

• BBS
• Atari 8-bit
• telnet
• gaming
• 1980s
• bulletin board systems
• SyncTerm

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Atari, AWS

Products: SyncTerm

Books & works: MACE 1986 AMIS BBS

Places: Atari 130XE, Atari Corporate 8Bit BBS

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