From: corwinang@rogers.com   
      
   On Sunday, 24 October 1999 03:00:00 UTC-4, tendim  wrote:   
   > My memory is really fuzzy about a lot of things, but I'll remember what   
   > I can.   
   >   
   > Grade 3 or 4, which was about, ohh, 1985, my parents bought me a   
   > complete Commodore 64C (the old style 64C -- a breadbox 64 in a new   
   > case) for christmas.  Within a week I was already playing with the BASIC   
   > tutorials that came in the guide, and teaching myself stuff.  My   
   > original C64C System Guide still has little sketches that I was making   
   > on the sprite grids that they supplied.   
   >   
   > A lot of kids at my school had C64's, so I was always trading games and   
   > stuff wtih them.  Soon though, games became boring, but not after   
   > devouring games like Beach Head II and Giana Sisters.  My best friend   
   > eventually got a C64C as well, and his cousin/uncle had a lot of games,   
   > so a lot of my stuff was piped through him.   
   >   
   > When I joined boy scouts, my scout master told me he was also into   
   > computers, and told me what a modem was.  In dreamland, I started saving   
   > money from my paper route and finally had enough to buy myself a 1670   
   > Modem 1200 (four-dip version).  My scout master gave me my first BBS   
   > phone number, but since he was Atari, the first board I called was   
   > Atari.   
   >   
   > At the time, the handle I selected for myself was "Skyfox", based after   
   > the EA game I had rented from the library!  Amazing game!!!  :)   
   >   
   > I eventually got more and more BBS numbers, and upgraded from the Common   
   > Sense terminal to TouchTerm, and from there to DarkTerm.  I still didn't   
   > know what the difference between an Atari and C64 were though!  This all   
   > changed when I found BBS' running off of the M1 BBS program, which was a   
   > very popular ASCII program in Toronto at the time.  This also lead me to   
   > other BBS' running the Midgard program.   
   >   
   > Eventually I bought a copy of Midgard BBS, and set up my own board.  The   
   > original BBS program was 300 BPS only, so I had it modified by Jason Mac   
   > Innes who ran TOTEOI (Tiptoeing On The Edge of Insanity) BBS for 1200   
   > BPS.  The board flopped though, but I still have the original copies of   
   > the BBS program -- I _still_ play with it, adding to it, removing parts,   
   > etc.  (Written in BASIC).   
   >   
   > Anyways.  Eventually I hooked up with this guy named Mainframe who lived   
   > in my neighbourhood.  He introduced me to DARKSTAR BBS', and got me onto   
   > my first PIRATE BBS!  Ooooh!  The suspense!  This BBS was HQ for TGI   
   > (The Guardians International), the NEC Canada associate.  The name of   
   > the BBS escapes me now, but it ran off of IMAGE 1.02 and had a whopping   
   > 20 MB of storage!   
   >   
   > When I logged on for the first time though, I didn't want my Public   
   > Domain buddies knowing that I was a pirate, so I made up a new handle:   
   > Eternal Death.  As E.Death I started up my own graphics group, EDP --   
   > Eternal Death Productions.  I also hooked up with a guy named   
   > AngelRipper (Dan) who taught me how to code.   
   >   
   > From there, it fast tracks.  I changed my handle to Riff Raff, and then   
   > to Dark Lord, and finally to Cyberad.  Became cosysop of Aftermath BBS,   
   > one of the dominant Colour64! boards in Toronto.  Eventually I started   
   > calling out to the states, legally, too chicken to phreak, and got   
   > called THE BEYOND, HAVOK HQ..  Got hooked up with Wraith and Warnock of   
   > then RPG, and joined RPG!   
   >   
   > The rest, is history.   
   >   
   > I learned a lot on the C64, and bought a C128 somewhere along the way,   
   > and now have two C128D's, a stack of C128's, 1571's, C64's, 1541's,   
   > REU's and the like.  In my first year at university though, I went   
   > Macintosh for the Photoshop capabilities (I take photography/digital).   
   > The C128D is still beside me though, and I _still_ use it about once a   
   > week.  When I have money, I'll be upgrading it a little w/ a SuperCPU..   
   >   
   > Dat's all I can remember..   
   >   
   > -Cyberad/RPG!  :)   
      
   Wow!  Was feeling nostalgic and decided to surf the forums on Commodore 64   
   BBS's.  I used to be the Sysop of Aftermath BBS.  If you're still reading   
   this, great to read your story!   
      
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