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Title: Commodore 64 Helps Revive The BBS Days
Post by: Chris Savage on Feb 05, 2026, 09:37 PM
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/commodore-64-helps-revive-the-bbs-days/

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Title: Re: Commodore 64 Helps Revive The BBS Days
Post by: granz on Feb 06, 2026, 06:43 AM
It's weird that I missed this - I check Hack-A-Day several times every day.

Thanks for the notice.
Title: Re: Commodore 64 Helps Revive The BBS Days
Post by: Chris Savage on Feb 06, 2026, 09:19 AM
Quote from: granz on Feb 06, 2026, 06:43 AMIt's weird that I missed this - I check Hack-A-Day several times every day. Thanks for the notice.

I believe it was posted January 26th, 2026. I catch their stuff via social media feed. My BBS days were all during my time living in the Capital District of NY, also known as the Tri-Cities (Schenectady, Albany, Troy). The local area code was 518 and there was an official 518 BBS List (http://bbslist.textfiles.com/518/).

As I peruse this list, I recognize more than a dozen of the SysOps from the various sites and knew another dozen that weren't listed by name for other sites I frequented. My own BBS wasn't listed as it was private (invite only) and part-time (evenings / nights). But being on many of the BBS back then inspired me to write my own software, which started on the C=64, was ported to the Amiga and finally on the IBM PC.