When I got acquainted with BBS systems, it was on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286. With a Hayes 2400 baud modem on Telix... This was in early 96 or so, well into the WWW era. Even then BBS lists were still hung up in grocery stores.
I remember though, all I did was download DOS games and utilities. I would never download anything over 1 meg because it took too long.
I ended up catching some sort of dos virus on a BBS I went to, which led to the ultimate demise of my PS/2 as my boot disk was bad.
From then I moved onto a 386 with aol 3 and a 14.4k modem. Slowww web browsing I tell you that much.
I remember though, all I did was download DOS games and utilities. I would never download anything over 1 meg because it took too long.
I ended up catching some sort of dos virus on a BBS I went to, which led to the ultimate demise of my PS/2 as my boot disk was bad.
From then I moved onto a 386 with aol 3 and a 14.4k modem. Slowww web browsing I tell you that much.