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SweetErika
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No, you can't edit your thread title.
However, if you ask nicely, the moderator of the board where the thread is may edit the title for you.
However, if you ask nicely, the moderator of the board where the thread is may edit the title for you.
Weird Harold
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You CAN edit the title -- if you're fast enough. There is about a 15-30 second window where an edited title will change the thread title as well as the post title.
After that intial "oops" period -- which is too short for a dial-up user to take advantage of -- it does take moderator or admin intervention.
SweetErika
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Harold, we really should start a "Get Weird Harold High Speed" fund. With all you give to Lit, and I suspect other forums, it'd be a good investment.
Weird Harold
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Harold, we really should start a "Get Weird Harold High Speed" fund. With all you give to Lit, and I suspect other forums, it'd be a good investment.
Actually, my daughter has offered, but I really don't want an "always-on" computer connection. Dial-up is a pain at times, but I really don't visit many sites other than Lit; something like 60% of my online time is spent here.
PS: I used to run a bulletin board system. I told my friends that I wouldn't run a BBS unless I had a separate computer I could dedicate to it. About six weeks after I said that, they knocked on my door, handed me a box of old computer parts, and said, "here's your BBS computer, now get it set up and running." Thus was born "The Wizard's Den" Spitfire BBS system which ran continuously for something like eight years.
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Nightbird
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OH HAROLD!! Those where the days!
I used to run a BBS system on my old Amiga..
And I have friends who used to run them as well. They told me stories of putting the power packs for their 64's in a bucket of water to keep them from over heating.. LOL
Ah yes good old Spitfire...
I used to run a BBS system on my old Amiga..
And I have friends who used to run them as well. They told me stories of putting the power packs for their 64's in a bucket of water to keep them from over heating.. LOL
Ah yes good old Spitfire...
Weird Harold
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BBS's very nearly sent a Captain I worked for at George AFB into bankruptcy in the very early Eighties; He discovered downloadable "free" software and started downloading everything he could find -- he accumulated something like 6,000 5.25 inch floppies full of downloads before he logged onto a BBS in Chicago with a 300 Baud (acoustic) modem, fell asleep waiting for the files to download, and stayed connected to Chicago from Southern California for sixteen hours!
Life was much better for BBS users when modem speeds finally got faster than most users can type.
Nightbird
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LMAO Harold he was a total Leach!!!
I remember logging on just to play a space game. Damn if I can remember what it was called..
My first modem was a 1200..
Oh how I loved US Robotics back then.. And those great noises of the dial up modem connecting! LOL
Made for a great way to deal with prank phone calls. I even memorized some Hayes commands.. (At least I think thats what they were called.. It's been so long)..
I was a late bloomer and had my BBS up in the days of Beverly Hills 90210 LOL I called it the "Peach Pit" LOL...
I remember logging on just to play a space game. Damn if I can remember what it was called..
My first modem was a 1200..
Oh how I loved US Robotics back then.. And those great noises of the dial up modem connecting! LOL
Made for a great way to deal with prank phone calls. I even memorized some Hayes commands.. (At least I think thats what they were called.. It's been so long)..
I was a late bloomer and had my BBS up in the days of Beverly Hills 90210 LOL I called it the "Peach Pit" LOL...
Weird Harold
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Trade Wars(?) on a 1200B would have been a pain. It was bad enough on a USR HST 9600B.
I was more of a Fishing and Risk! player than Trade Wars but thy were all fun.
tommynova2001
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It was a long time ago...like 14-15 years but that wizards den bbs sounds familiar. My wife and I had a Toshiba laptop we bought used for $250 and were surfing from bbs to bbs. We are located one state south of your present location, so probably similar one, but wouldn't it be the strangest thing if we had crossed paths then, and now?
Weird Harold
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It was a long time ago...like 14-15 years but that wizards den bbs sounds familiar. ... We are located one state south of your present location, so probably similar one, but wouldn't it be the strangest thing if we had crossed paths then, and now?
Does the name CircuitNet ring a bell? Wizard's Den was the home of CircuitNet, and my tagline was in something like 1,500 different Spitfire BBS systems' message conferences as the message origin.
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