[Coco] Even Penn & Teller had a BBS...

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 22:27:14 EST 2015


Thanks Allen,

For a moment I recalled what it felt like to be 14 years old staring at a
green phosphor screen at 3am in a darkened room, watching the characters
scrolling across the screen at 300 baud.  :)

Sometimes 1200 baud if the BBS supported it.

I think it was 1983….

- Ed


> On Feb 2, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> During my CoCo excavation this weekend, I unearthed a buffer save from when I called Penn & Teller’s BBS in 1990. If you want to take a trip back to BBS-land, I present it here:
> 
> http://subethasoftware.com/2015/02/01/penn-tellers-bbs-mofo-ex-machina/ <http://subethasoftware.com/2015/02/01/penn-tellers-bbs-mofo-ex-machina/>
> 
> The only thing CoCo-related about this post is I called it using my CoCo.
> 
> 		— A
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